Ballet Lovers

Baby my
Baby. my arms
reach out to you
and enfold;
Baby I
sink into those hesitant eyes;
Baby I
feel you close

as music allows
hand in the small of your back
dizzy twirl
and then return close
short breath taken
eyes twinkle.
Baby I
feel
your thigh
rise up mine
the rustle

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A Pillow Keep

I laid down my eyes
having no need of them;

your sight
lives within.

I lay down my hands
for having held you
will forever suffice.

I need less air and oxygen
for your inhalation
that night
will my soul keep.

I have laid down
words and verbs,
gerunds
and verbal quests-
language fails

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Equilbrium Too

Stumbling I
take your face into my hands
feel you softly breathe
as I cup your waist
as we brush lips

your softened body
takes a dip
and we apostrophe
in unison,

I gasping
inside your moaning moan
this joining fills our lungs
as the instant clings to
its eternity

centers swell
body writhings
breasts erect

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Nothing Happens In This World Until

Nothing happens in this world
until somebody falls in love
with somebody;
dating, marriages
and babies are born;
children raised
parents blessed;
homes made.

Nothing happens in this world
until somebody falls in love
with somebody.

Nothing happens in this world
until somebody falls in love
with something;
reading, books, work, science
teaching, ideas, culture, the future
the past.

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My Dream Feels

If it weren't for that perfect fit

breasts to my chest;

if it weren't for those perfect lips

mine to yours

I'd not be so in love with you.

If it weren't for your flower-petal voice

those summer breeze yearning eyes

my summer heart

would not have blossomed so.

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What Was

I can't go home;
even if I do
because that me going home
would be expected
to be
someone I haven't been in so very long.

How to be with family and friends
who constantly want to talk about
that young kid
who's long since moved on.

Out of klndness and memory
I play along
and let them
brag and fawn
over a person
long gone
into the forward years
while they look back

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Seeking

You should sit-
this could take a while;
hurry won't happen here-
melting hearts take time-
the merlot is nice;
I've stopped the grandfather clock
put my eyes on lock-
on you.

Don't move an inch
I'll circle back
trace along your speghitti straps
motivate the plummeting
down to heaven's gate
so close
the wine sizzles
and I know wine shouldn't
but ours does
as I bend

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Cheating For Me-Her Story

He had strong arms
and I felt them
wrapping around my soul;
and his voice
soft
beautiful
penetrating me.

He listened to me
he talked to me
and the sex
was
really my thank you
to him for
caring about my being lonely.

At least this was
the reason for the sex
the first time
But the shock of it

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Culture Flowers

We’re all lashed
to Cultural Helms
besodden
ingrained eyes
narrowed to squinty plane
seeing;
not seeing
only mine;
and not mine
blind.

Culture is the Gardener's Death
who’s kind to only one flower;
other's bloom in the garden darkened
by blindness over-powered.

Strain some may
against the mast
yet they most times
cultivate only their own gardens;

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z-Dead Bodies and Casket Lids

As I lay here
in my dead body
gone;
I think upon what part of my life
will people remark?

Will it be all the good things
I've done
for others who may or may not
have given back?

Will it be my generosity
or my looks;
my achievements;
the little things-
the little gifts-
given
anonymously?

Will it be my deep thoughts

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