Archive for Romance
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(EVENT IS IN THE PAST) • by Gavin Broom
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The airport barmaid knows what we want to hear, so kindly dismisses fourteen weeks as though wafting a thin thread of smoke from a dying cigarette, but she gives herself away with an offer of liquid consolation and three little words: “On the house.” We arrive at departures to meet comfort in the angle of [...]
Poems, Romance
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DOROTHY CALLS • by therunningchelsea 2 Comments
hearing your words shook a couple of litres o’ wine into the belly of all the butterflies and their tongues started to spread your legend to the people who already knew (for S.H) therunningchelsea performs his songs and poems live, sometimes dancing between loop stations and effects pedals, in various guises under [...]
Poems, Romance
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YOU TELL ME YOU HAVE SEEN MY TIGER • by Stuart Larner 1 Comment
You tell me you have seen my tiger Watching you from my thorny woods of thought. It growled white fear and amber danger. But – splashed by tears which I dismissed as rain – It ran, sensing it had been discovered. Last night you told me you heard it purring – Or was it a [...]
Poems, Romance
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YET ANOTHER ALMOST • by Bernie Barnes 2 Comments
we talk, exchanging names and troubles, aspirations, situations, ‘ations upon ‘ations out of the night comes a stranger standing beside her from her drink he sips returning to my drink invisible for a spell jealousy rages but soon subsides she leaves, “Good night” “Can I ask for your number?” “I know where to find you,” [...]
Poems, Romance
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EXAMPLE • by Rewa Zeinati 4 Comments
Too much of anything is never good love, or maybe especially. We are left like cellos playing the edge, a suspension bridge, over the green where you stop calling and I begin to swim— Rewa Zeinati’s poems, essays and translations have been published in literary journals and anthologies in the United States and [...]
Poems, Romance
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THE NEW ECHOLALIA • by Ron. Lavalette 9 Comments
Whatever I ever say to her she repeats back perfectly. I think you’re beautiful, I say; she tells me I should trim my beard. I tell her how much I love her. She reminds me to take my pills. She gives me a kiss when I bring her coffee. Ron. Lavalette is a Vermont poet. [...]
Poems, Romance
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THEY MET BY CHANCE • by Ruth Schiffmann 3 Comments
They met by chance under summer skies Perfect as a printed star chart His words both delicate and wise Lighting the pathway to her heart Perfect as a printed star chart His promises danced across her skin Lighting the pathway to her heart Climbing mountains of doubt within His promises danced across her [...]
Pantoum, Poems, Romance
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NOT EVEN AT 32 • by Rewa Zeinati 2 Comments
Awake again at 4 a.m. with the sort of heaviness that only rising out of bed can appease. I tread barefoot down the stairs, the darkness of our room trailing like a long wedding veil behind me. With everything new again by now I thought I would stop. Your arms an asylum of [...]
Poems, Relationships, Romance
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“HEART REMEMBERS” • by Mark Lyvers 8 Comments
Glimpses, watercolors on wet paper, now faded memories, shaded thoughts. Heart remembers— your touch in those long nights, curves like the wake of ships passing by in the harbor. Spring when the rain washes clean the winters decay. When I stole your kisses in your sleep. Heart remembers all the pain of your passing, [...]
Poems, Romance
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ST VALENTINE’S STING • by P.J. Crockett 6 Comments
My love squats in your citadel heart, uninvited. I rose to this office dare: ‘Got no chance, mate. happily hitched.’ My love waltzed in when you were unguarded, vulnerable. I used stealth to ensnare through a nonchalant date. Lust restrained. My love danced across the open drawbridge, cock-a-hoop. I utter with Don [...]
Romance
