i lavish kisses
on soft skin she exposes
where shoulder meets neck
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a painful silence
moments i don't hear from you
i feel so alone
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i cast forth poems
hoping at least for echoes
you answer silence
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love's a theory
imaginary concept
i know must be real
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in dreams together
hand-in-hand crossing the edge
into reality
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to understand me
you must understand true love
its link to freedom
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i would not bind you
but with shared words and desires
and true love's freedom
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she does not submit
but rather commits herself
to love's wide expression
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though my work of art
i may not see or touch you
just write about you
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once wrote without lust
could not understand my need
minus the passion
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you understand my truth
mortals love but poets lust
write of both at once
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Premonition on the wind
Gliding beneath dark clouds
Above the shadowed earth
Moaning in ecstatic passage,
Fondling leaves,
Caressing flowers,
In darkness as,
Their unseen blushes
Give evidence to the
Accuracy of its promises.
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you and i make love
green grass bed and bare blue sky
caressing wind and sun
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In the dark, an owl cries
Evoking ancient memories
Written in the blood
Raising runes of mythic fears
Upon the trembling flesh
As the fearful cry resounds
Against the choral background
Of wind and unknown creatures,
Moving darkly through
The watching forest.
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ariadne on the shore
marooned as theseus sailed away
to his father's death
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arriving at the stone walled city
wrapped within a ragged cloak
emissary from cross wine dark seas
upon an ancient horse
telling and retelling
stories whicpered in the dark,
sung at the fire before dawn's battle,
for singer, song, and memory
may die with the sunrise
Donovan Baldwin