Tag: Love Poems
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This Is Modern Love
It begins with a barbecue. It often does. Out on the front lawn, with fold-up chairs and a puffed-up paddling pool, on a manky stand that is never cleaned, they cremate creatures and eat them. The lighter fuel stink and the great swirls of smoke they freely share with neighbours, who stare and tut through…
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We Don’t Understand Us
You don’t get it. I can’t get it right. We don’t understand us. Nothing of us is understandable. We are complex, complicated, completely normal in our abnormal ways. This is how it goes, how life unfolds for us, for all of us, for always, forever, ’til death us do part, our carved hearts entwined in…
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Love In Black Satin
Venus in the dark sky. Bright light of love in the night, wrapped in black satin.
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A Mystery To Ourselves
A Mystery To Ourselves When I kissed you as you left today, we were as close as we could get and yet we were still indistinct to each other, from one another, thinking different things together, separating. We had been so close that what was on you was now on me. I took your scent,…
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The Greatest Love
On this Valentine’s day Remember these words well Learning to love yourself Is the greatest love of all
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The Orphans
A man I met on holiday told me once the story of how he never met his mother. She was blown to blitz in the same old war that his father fell for. Their only child, he’d been sent away to stay in a place full of strangers, with dangers of its own. He had…