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Mar 09, 2010
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how do you write a love poem to a poet?
how do you write a love poem to a poet?
"a thousand kisses deep..." Leonard Cohen
when the mourning dove awakens me
with her plaintive cry and the sun
is breaking through the unborn
untouched sky,
I wonder how to write a love poem
to you,
leave our marriage bed of mists and dreams
still wrapped tightly in your arms
I walk downstairs brew a pot of coffee,
open vanilla silk and bronze taffeta, windows
to the new day, let the rainbows in
let them speak for themselves
and my eyes behold the melting snow,
the ground greening with newborn shoots,
a thousand kisses deep
wordless, I write swirls of letters,
a few images, a longing
to lie open, your voice
dawning the summer light,
your soft hands of moss
caressing me,
your lips pressing against mine
embroidered
with the scent of green papaya
and thus my ritual begins,
I notice my skin is brushed with gold
flakes of tenderness like a small flame I hold
consume me with another poem.
I fly over into the land of you with the scent of mimosa on my wings.
"a thousand kisses deep..." Leonard Cohen
when the mourning dove awakens me
with her plaintive cry and the sun
is breaking through the unborn
untouched sky,
I wonder how to write a love poem
to you,
leave our marriage bed of mists and dreams
still wrapped tightly in your arms
I walk downstairs brew a pot of coffee,
open vanilla silk and bronze taffeta, windows
to the new day, let the rainbows in
let them speak for themselves
and my eyes behold the melting snow,
the ground greening with newborn shoots,
a thousand kisses deep
wordless, I write swirls of letters,
a few images, a longing
to lie open, your voice
dawning the summer light,
your soft hands of moss
caressing me,
your lips pressing against mine
embroidered
with the scent of green papaya
and thus my ritual begins,
I notice my skin is brushed with gold
flakes of tenderness like a small flame I hold
consume me with another poem.
I fly over into the land of you with the scent of mimosa on my wings.
— Kailashana, Mar 09, 2010
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arja
16 years 3 months ago
}}}APPLAUSE{{{***APPLAUSE***
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
You wouldn’t perchance be
arja
16 years 3 months ago
..thanks for the complement
Seren
16 years 3 months ago
So beautiful the night
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
“so beautiful the night
Seren
16 years 3 months ago
It is … not finished yet
Nordic cloud
16 years 3 months ago
"open vanilla silk and bronze taffeta windows "
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
My dear sister from Norway,
Nordic cloud
16 years 3 months ago
..wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
ty E Crud, COS, sweet the
seabhac
16 years 3 months ago
Don't question the why
judyanne
16 years 3 months ago
beautiful as usual anna
Candlewitch
16 years 3 months ago
Dearest Anna
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
If only everyone knew that
Saiko-Johnny
16 years 3 months ago
Stunning!
Orphani
16 years 3 months ago
Oh the burdens of being an
Nordic cloud
16 years 3 months ago
Love that Barry!
magics02
16 years 3 months ago
Just beautiful
weirdelf
16 years 3 months ago
you don't, he already knows
Will Wright
16 years 3 months ago
I fly over into the land of
Millage
16 years 3 months ago
Fantastic
Seren
16 years 3 months ago
had to come back and tell
panaella
16 years 2 months ago
You nailed this...