STRIP YOURSELF, AND OTHER POEMS, APRIL 13, 2024

Strip yourself of old fears and worries,

Place yourself naked and trusting in my hands.

Let my lips and fingers trace poetry

In cursive loops and whirls upon your body

And within your eager mind as the loving words

Both heard and felt cause tremors of ecstasy,

With your body and mind as your poet finds

And touches the true woman he loves,

The woman who loves him to the point,

Of daily ecstasy and orgasm of mind and body.

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naked poetry

parades before this window

knowing you're watching

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salty taste of self

the birthplace of love's goddess

flavor of nectar

uncertain her tongue

for she comes late to table

served with love's liqueur

arousing flavor

creating fires and desires

with each new tasting

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i cannot get close

my love has no boundaries

would drive her away

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her lover's exploit

seeking her deepest petals

love's nectar first forms

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needs so much alike

not strange bedfellows at all

sharing our desires

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my thoughts like fingers

trace the beauty of your mind

touching here and there

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i drape upon her

love's laciest lingerie

woven of my words

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your naked beauty

tries to hide but stands revealed

mirrored in your words

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None have ever written me

The slightest word of poetry.

No artist who can create

Has done so for me to date.

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all life leads to death

this path all of us must take

let's share life's burdens

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i know you don't care

let me just pretend a while

that you thought you did

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hard to find you know

those who understand and love

don't want you to change

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i can't imagine

you love me the way i am

saying please don't change

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don't want you to change

why would you expect me to

accept me as i am

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if you admitted

all the strange desires you have

i would still love you

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no limits to love

always live all your desires

that's how i love you

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who named these things sins

fools who never knew of love

or of hearts's pleasures

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i admire your mind

sensual reality

where we love to meet

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don't have to love me

understand that i love you

that's how you love me

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never thought you could

share your love the ways you want

but then you met me

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exposing yourself

proud to leave old you behind

naked in our future

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wanted to be loved

never happened never will

keep moving to death

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i can see your fires

how you writhe with your desires

how calm to others

I see how you burn

how eager mind and body

seek beyond the edge

i hear silent cries

the demands of your desires

you demand i feed

• Donovan Baldwin