Really Ridiculous Love Rhyme : )

kiss me call me keep me, if you like–
these lips and hands are true
and if you’d like the heart you hold
I’ll let you have it too
I love your name and love your eyes
and both your hands and feet
but best of all I love your smiles
so gentle and sugar-sweet
You fill my mind with ponderings
on life and [...]

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The Perfect Day

We woke up together
We ate sundaes
We had a “snort” with great grandma Helen
We found a piece
of the scattered puzzle
of our past.

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More Sap : )

I love him because
Lew rhymes with the color blue
and he doesn’t like fresh tomatoes.
I love him because he wouldn’t let me be a spy
if I wanted to and he could stop me
which I don’t and he couldn’t but still . . .
I love him because he hated the 2nd Pirates of the Carribbean
as much as [...]

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My Man

My man has
the most magnificent hands-
with wide, plate palms
and long, sure fingers.
He uses them for lots of things-
typing song titles,
dipping into the peanut butter jar,
sometimes they find a nostril (rarely his own),
and other times they sign tickets
for angry officers.
But the best times
are when they come to me-
so quiet I can hear
my blood humming beneath them
So [...]

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Candies and Old Spice

as I lean in
to have your lips
the scent trips my senses
I know only you,
the feel of your hands
running over my body
a summer rain-
warm and gentle
your breathing-
soft, intense
whispers of want
hot against
my hungry skin.
The stars are in your eyes tonight and
Sleep is all around us
but cannot breach our embrace,
for we belong to each other
and the night
belongs to
us. [...]

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Sometimes

Sometimes I wish that I could be
the tumbling, roiling, blue-green sea
and all I’d do from June till June
is listen to the guiding moon
And other days I wish that I
could be the wind and simply fly
free as a bird and never late
unburdened with worry, unburdened by fate
But the sea only kisses the shoreline and
the wind neither [...]

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