Relationship poems

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Impossible

© Sharon Esther Lampert

Sharon Esther Lampert
Sexiest Creative Genius in Human History
8th Prophetess of Israel: 22 Commandments
http://www.poetryjewels.com

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Life In The World

© Mirabai

Life in the world is short,

Why shoulder an unnecessary load

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter VII - Pompilia

© Robert Browning

  There,
Strength comes already with the utterance!
I will remember once more for his sake
The sorrow: for he lives and is belied.
Could he be here, how he would speak for me!

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The Generations of Men

© Robert Frost

A governor it was proclaimed this time,
When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire
Ancestral memories might come together.
And those of the name Stark gathered in Bow,

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Ralph Rhodes

© Edgar Lee Masters

All they said was true:
I wrecked my father's bank with my loans
To dabble in wheat; but this was true --
I was buying wheat for him as well,

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Water Babes

© Ivan Donn Carswell

We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook
that patiently took us into its heart. At the very start we
were never far from its shingly banks, playing amid ranks
of serried wildflowers. When one of us all but drowned

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Pumpkins in our time

© Ivan Donn Carswell

For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace,
their parent vines had all but browned and died
although a stubborn tendril here and there had
tried to grow again – glyphosate soon ended

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Piscine kind of kinship

© Ivan Donn Carswell

To glibly say that Joe was sort of odd
quite missed the point. Peculiar in many
ways and kind of weird, I would have
been afraid of him were I a child (if I ever

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Pedestrian ambitions

© Ivan Donn Carswell

My thoughts are like the boots randomly arrayed
in the rack outside the window, some in pairs neatly
stacked, comfortably worn with a relaxed air of
confidence, some scattered in patterns of bizarre

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Dead man’s clothes

© Ivan Donn Carswell

Growing up, I propose,
is like wearing a dead man’s clothes.
Death has a way of levelling the ground.
I have found the closer your relationship

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At Feet Of Dogs

© Ivan Donn Carswell

At my feet the lapdogs of desire,
I wont greet their fawning, least not yet,
their foul breath would shrink a haemorroid,
perhaps I’ll feed them oats with garlic

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Restless

© Cecilia Borromeo

It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying
crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges
only to remain unseen;
We weave our web of what we believe we understand

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Kinky

© Denise Duhamel

They decide to exchange heads.
Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin
over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide jaw line jostles
atop his girlfriend's body, loosely,

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Fuck Me

© Maggie Estep

FUCK ME
I'm all screwed up so
FUCK ME.

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How Is Your Heart?

© Charles Bukowski

during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with

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Walking the Dog

© Howard Nemerov

Two universes mosey down the street
Connected by love and a leash and nothing else.
Mostly I look at lamplight through the leaves
While he mooches along with tail up and snout down,
Getting a secret knowledge through the nose
Almost entirely hidden from my sight.

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The Makers

© Howard Nemerov

Who can remember back to the first poets,
The greatest ones, greater even than Orpheus?
No one has remembered that far back
Or now considers, among the artifacts,

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As Much As You Can

© Constantine Cavafy

Even if you cannot shape your life as you want it,
at least try this
as much as you can; do not debase it
in excessive contact with the world,
in the excessive movements and talk.