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The Courtship
The lace-edged handkerchiefCame firstAnd then you sent me a singleperfect roseIt’s the twenty-first century andyou’re courting meLike it’s eighteen hundredand ninety-five Where is the red-hot...
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The Star
I have aLong-held fear ~That one day I willBe found out ~ The word willGet around ~That I am notThe person theyExpected me to be ~ Then those whoCouldn’t waitTo be my friends ~ Will be the first toSay...
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The Greening
A lovely SpringFoams onto the horizonWhere it shimmersFor a brief few weeksBefore disappearingAs quickly as it came It leaves in its placeAn embarrassment almostOf greenery and a paletteFull of summer...
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The Broken Place
Once trust has been destroyed ~Can it be ~ as Ernest HemingwayHas famously said ~ “strongAt the broken place” ~ or willIt remain shattered ~ and tooFragile to believe in any more ~ We were happy ~ or...
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Womb to Womb
Womb to wombThe knowledge passesThere is no other wayIt could have been Sisterhood is not a mythOr if it is it has achievedIts mythic size and shapeO’er countless generations In secrets whispered...
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A Lover’s Promise
We lie facing each otherGazing into each other’sEyes and feeling the feelingGrow until there is danger ofSome kind of cataclysmic event Will you forget me you askWill there come a time whenI am not...
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Unfair
You see me and you smileAnd just for one brief momentIt feels the same ~ untilI see the faint touch ofConfusion begin to formBehind your lovely eyes It’s clear you know me thoughYou can’t remember how...
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Not Enough
My heart is crackingBreaking ~ shatteredBy the knowledgeThat I can’t unknow The enemy has capturedOne of my belovedA child of my heartBut even soThe pain is as intenseAs if I’d borne her There is no...
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The Greatest Force
Love can make usFiner than we areTrue loveCan make usFiner still “Love is patientLove is kind”They tell usBut they do notTell usThat true loveCan burn awayThe blinders fromThe lover’s eyes Hearts and...
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The Arrangement
I have bought ~ youYou are mine ~ to do withAs I please ~ for theNext twenty four hours ~ I have met your price ~ andYou have met my terms ~And honest lust is all thatWe will have between us ~ I am in...
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