After her tale, it/
was tempting to chant loud and/
long, but we didn’t.
Category Archives: Romantic Poetry and Writing
Other Happy Glad – Haiku
Although I didn’t /
see it, feel it or get it,
I’m glad she found joy.
At The End Of Lonely Lane – Free Verse
When one you love
ditches you
to go out with others,
you get to placate yourself
by staying home
and re-watching videos
of their big day.
Flooded By The Energized Woman: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku
She is a very/
energized woman. When floods/
come, I fear drowning.
To My Darling, Dearest One, Post Movie: Romantic Free Verse Lament
My Darling:
My fingers fly across space and keys, anxiously tapping and pounding words which have swollen my heart this evening for far too long.
Why is the connection so slow? Why do I have to wait longingly for some electronic synapse, when the waves in my brain and my heart are racing full speed, threatening to rip the arteries between those two organs asunder.
My Dearest: Tonight we watched a movie of London and research and libraries and University and the Yorkshire coast and countryside. It was of two Literati, one hidden poet and one descendant of two artists long passed and largely forgotten. A romance. A genealogical detective story. A movie full of poetry, love requeited and not, of honesty and deception. It was a film full of scenery and sadness, of whisper and wanting, of two – facedness twice.
Loved one: It was a cinemascope full of everything you, as a romance writer, love. It was and is a tale I should and would, as a romantic poet, gladly embrace with you, fully, completely, deeply.
Except for that one moment, that once scene in that one arbor-windowed room overlooking the ocean, as the waves heaved and foamed and surged and rolled in and out, in and out. It is that moment that, for all its beauty and tenderness, will always break my heart, and will always turn me inside out, and give me pain.
Even now, my beloved, I hear the music, I feel the muse (he called her his Muse, or was it her that called him her Muse?), and instead of rejoicing, my heart is heavy with memory and regret.
Fortunately, that forbidden moment was long ago. Just as she let him drop her hair down, at last, maybe some day I can accept that love, believe that goodness can happen in those moments.
For did not Solomon come of David and Bathsheba?
Perhaps, Love, someday
my pain will away,
and with it will fade regret.
But not yet.
Alas, Loves, not yet.
Baby’s Got Back (Teeth) – Free Verse Poem
When you up and get hitched
to a fine Southern Belle
from Daisy, Tennessee,
you might find out
that all she wants for Christmas
is her two back teeth.
That way,
she can eat more than soup
and strained fruits and veggies
and ice cream.
(And though she might be looking forward
to the weight loss
caused by such a diet,
I would never say anything
about that!)
Baby’s got back (teeth).
Finishing That Big Hunk – Romantic ImproVerse Haiku
After years, I have/
at last consumed my Big Hunk.
Fantasy Limits: Romantic Haiku
When I’m insecure,/
she says not to fantasize/
To Touch Much: Rhyming Romantic Haiku
Does it matter much/
How I touch, as long as I/
touch much more often?
He Thinks My Southern’s Sexy — Country Music Cover
(Sung to the tune of “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy”, but from a woman’s point-of-view)
He thinks my Southern’s sexy!
It really turns him on.
He’s always drooling at me
when I’m weed whacking the lawn.
He really kind of likes my Southern music drawl.
An’ he gets all excited when I say hey all y’all!
You best be knowin how he digs my squash pies from cushaws.
Yeah he really gets me!
He thinks my Southern’s sexy!