soul's satin skin shown
private pose for her poet
bare before her bard
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abandons herself
glistening before his eyes
dancing with the flames
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her hidden secrets
momentarily displayed
beneath rosette bud
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he whispers wishes
poetry she never hears
words to make her weep
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beggar by the road
keeper of such mystic words
trusted him by eros
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those lips drip poems
flavored with her tart liqueur...
spilling distilled love
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invoking his words
clad but in moon's silver robe...
she tempts her poet