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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