Archive for Romance

  1. MANDARIN MOON • by TL Payne 16 Comments

    balcony doors
    open
    a table,
    rose essence wine,
    giant oysters
    incense smolders,
    lanterns lit
    caressed
    by a silk kimono
    her skin
    fragrant with jasmine
    she sees
    the gleam of a mandarin moon,
    a visual echo
    on the face of a puddle
    whispers
    of the orient
    all is ready
    and she awaits the arrival
    of her lover…
    alas, she has no lover.

    TL Payne lives in Denver, Colorado with husband, Steve, and their two [...]

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  2. THOUGHTS ACROSS THE OCEAN • by Nicky Phillips 9 Comments

    Across this expanse of time and land, sea and space,
    I am with you in my mind.  I smile your smile,
    follow, close behind, into each room
    as you shut the door on yet another day
    separated from me.
     
    How to convince you I’m right there, alongside?
    I watch you wake, shower, breakfast -
    the mundane and the riveting:
    the richer, the poorer.
     
    From [...]

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  3. MAJESTY OF SHOOTING STARS • by Stephanie E Manning (Australia) 5 Comments

     
    Fleeting glimpses leave the everyday abuzz
    with the simple names
    of these simple lights.
    And across a screaming sky
    a path is carved through drifting satellites;
    fission’s reversed, and two become one.
    And all the world lived in newspaper tones
    before these names befell tired tongues;
    before colour was found under shadows.
    Yet heads point skyward; breathless and awed.
    Just gazing;
    just wishing on us.
    All this [...]

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  4. GARDEN OF DREAMS • by by Douglas Pugh 5 Comments

    Do you see that rose bloom?

    A jet of petals spilling aquatic
    dragged and twisted spurts
    mans craft and gravity artfully
    sculpting those fine sprays
    so that they have the grace
    the fortune
    to rain down through hair
    over that upturned face

    your chin tilts
    feels the angled slide of rivulets
    over and around your curves
    lathering my envy
    for I
    would die a sweet death
    to tumble across and [...]

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  5. LATELY • by Isabel Yap 11 Comments

     
    You smell a lot like the cotton blossom
    brushed over her neckline; it’s what
    she sprays in your bathrooms, airs out your car
    with. What her towels smell like out of
    the wash – and powder, the same white fluff
    between your baby’s toes. That’s all I know
    her by: your phone vibrating off the table
    ledge, the tie that suits [...]

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  6. WEIRD WILD WEEDS • by Abby Brennan 11 Comments

     
     
    Let them be the lovely hothouse flowers
    Beautiful, delicate, feminine, sweet,
    Beloved alike by commoner and elite,
    Cared for with all the gardener’s powers.
    Let them have roots fed by fertile bullshit,
    Plucked in their prime by uncaring blades,
    Forgotten when their youthful glory fades.
    Let them be roses: they’re welcome to it.
    We, my friend, shall be the weird wild weeds, 
    Blossoms spread [...]

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  7. ONLY UNTIL THIS CIGARETTE IS ENDED • by Gabe Dybing 15 Comments

    Now that our flaring love affair has ended
    in ashes, as we both affirmed it must,
    I place my hand within the flaky dust
    and scatter us, not even remotely offended,
    for I know that once our lives were blended,
    and we wore beauty, if not more trust.
    You know, late in life you shall be thrust
    into reverie, while [...]

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  8. IF • by Andrew M. Bowen 2 Comments

     
     
    If stars were dust, I’d scatter them
    beneath your feet – a road of light
    not half as lovely as the gem
    that shines all beauty of the night.
     
    If six was nine, you’d still be fine;
    this pesky world could turn flipflops
    and still I would want you as mine
    to walk in sunshine and raindrops.
     
    If dolphins flew, they’d soar for [...]

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  9. THE OFFERING • by Wanda Lea Brayton 6 Comments

     
    Give me the stones
    from your shoes, Beloved.
    Let not this path become weary
    from your emboldened stride.

    Open your palms to these auspicious mornings
    and allow colors to tremble
    from your fingers
    as divine mergings awaken.

    Be soft upon my mouth
    as you linger near this place of sanctuary ~
    we will call the evening mild
    throughout the storm.

    Trust what we know to be truth [...]

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  10. FULL BEAUTIFUL • by Lia Molly Deromedi 5 Comments

     
    Somewhere between the falling and the fallout,
    the first kiss and the funeral,
    your smile became like a doll’s,
    frozen in time, you would be forever,
    he said, you believed, like there would always be tomorrow,
    like there were no tomorrows
    living every day like receiving the world
    and forfeiting the soul isn’t really how it is,
    playing [...]

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