Archive for Romance
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MOUNT POCONO • by Joseph Carlough
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I like the look you look When you haven’t showered for two days and your aroma is sweat and August 3rd Hair, frumpy from humidity and little frays stick out like crabgrass Basketball shorts and a tank top With another tank top underneath Forget the bra We walk to the creek to go fishing With [...]
Romance
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THE RED ROSE SHE BRINGS • by p.k.n.panicker 7 Comments
Eyes swollen she cries incessantly, all sorrows frozen underneath the fair skin, haggard and worn-out, the look of her I would never have liked to see; I lie here helpless unable to offer a word of consolation, to wipe her tears, or to caress her dishevelled hair. When we first met alone, away from friends [...]
Romance
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IF YOU WERE HERE • by Christian Ward 9 Comments
If I squint, the full moon’s reflection in the bedroom window is you. The mug of tea I’m sweetening will imitate your feathery footsteps even though the teaspoon’s clink is closer to the truth. When I receive bills, I’ll close my eyes and a heap of postcards from you will block the door. You are [...]
Literary, Romance
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IN THE MOONLIGHT • by Nancy Wilcox 2 Comments
Under a softer moon, lapped by a warmer wind, I knew another lover I held a dearer friend. Gray waves wash over footprints and we can’t trace them back, so we walk into the tide of a sea that’s rising black. We are abandoned children too afraid to fight or run, holding hands in [...]
Romance
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NO LIGHT • by TL Payne 4 Comments
no light in her world no warmth for her skin love is spent, a chasm never to be satisfied she would gladly have been his whore for life. TL Payne lives in Denver, Colorado with husband, Steve, and their two dogs. She was employed for twenty-nine years by a large, independent oil refining and marketing [...]
Romance
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'AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH' • by Alexander J. Allison 3 Comments
she's a window into paradise and every hand which handles her has held a piece of heaven, all laden down with luxury, we perpetuate quite lovingly, the glances which she throws to all and few. skin is stretched across her soul, mapping out a path for lips on freckle constellations kissed. the grip of patterned [...]
Romance
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SOMETIMES • by john stocks 9 Comments
Outside snow is falling as delicately as blossom In a moonless, starless daze. Tonight you wonder at your destiny how you came to be sleeping in this bed, next to this person the strangeness of it all. You watch the flickering fusion of headlights snake up the city’s seven hills hear the comforting, [...]
Other, Romance
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POWDER AND DREAMS • by by Douglas Pugh 5 Comments
water and carbon a graphite smear topped with a shading a blend yellow, rose, white tipping to flesh though flat without depth powdered blush speckled on virgin cheeks irises picked out with colours that an iris can never be raising curvature with a splash a caress of shadows guilt delicate, a line to be crossed [...]
Romance
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I FED YOUR MR. CANARY • by Ricky Massengale 9 Comments
i fed your mr canary and crawled back in my cage forced to listen to him chitter about the correspondents on CNN he can’t even type you know his wings hit too many letters he tried to be sweeter than me once and wrote that yuiop[uiorty ertyuiertsdf asdrtyert l;’iopkl;ert aws . . . after which [...]
Romance
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FORTUNE • by Lisa Marie Andrews 5 Comments
The first bit of paper said,“I miss you.” She sniffed and tried the next, chewing sweetened styrofoam. “You won’t forget me?” She laughed, spraying crumbs. A green tea chaser took the edge off bitterness. Plastic wrappers piled beside her, but she opened another anyway. “Two is one too many.” Lisa Marie Andrews has [...]
Romance
