BEREFT OF LOVE, AND OTHER POEMS, APRIL 10, 2025
many must merely survive alone
bereft of love's warm embrace
but some are never strangers
to their unknown lovers
in strange lands
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she reads in private
heart pounding breathing tattered
swept away by words
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as rules surround her
she's secretly passionate
free to love his words
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daringly she turns
at last facing all her fears
makes a path through them
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her hidden passions
also part of all she fears
which she dares to face
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confronts old passions
opening herself to her
emerging desires
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she faces her needs
in her eager innocence
prepared for pleasure
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an errant angel
introduced her to pleasure
without sin or shame
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work of art herself
smiles naked in the moonlight
woman of silver
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fearing her desires
unsure of her need for love
but wanting to know
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a vessel of love
pouring herself into me...
nectar of desire
