bed sheets show secrets
poems in folds and wrinkles...
erotic essays
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pursuing poems
fingers flutter her pages...
rhythmic verses rise
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do you wait for touch
in your small bit of darkness...
for first kiss first claim
anticipation
heightening your senses...
to feel and be felt
are your berries hard
as pastel petals glisten...
with dewdrops of desire
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wanting you to read
the words you caused to happen...
know they are for you
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she chose her demon
one who promised ecstasy...
and didn't fail her
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nothing left to prove
proven myself many times...
this long painful life
yet i'll not stand down
for i have given my oath...
wrote an eternal check
signed and sealed that writ
an IOU to the world...
still redeemable
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she holds the fountain
from which love's warm waters flow...
grotto of desire
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though she's fully dressed
he knows exactly how she looks...
beneath clinging cloth
candid nudity
he sees better than superman...
as she laughs and chats
naked to his gaze
she smiles in a crowded room...
knowing what he sees
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beauty is messy
flesh and blood and fantasy...
poet and artist know
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your lips against mine
words on breaths between mouths...
bodies conversing
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love child of beauty
begotten of poet and muse...
perhaps immortal
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allowed him a glimpse
into her secret desires...
by the poems she chose
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in his deep brown eyes
her reflection visible...
intensely exciting
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will you ever grasp
how seductive you become...
just by being you
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he was not the devil
and did not lead her astray...
just to freedom's edge
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shows me her desires
names me keeper of secrets...
no one else may know
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worshipper of love
each human a god or goddess...
my one religion
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poet's model muse
becomes a poem tonight...
accedes to his love
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Dew upon petals
Directly from her flower,
He sips her nectar,
Opalescent liqueur flows,
Between lips and over tongue.
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she weeps at lessons read
in the scars upon his soul...
and on his body
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sophistication's not
following false leaders...
but blazing one's trail
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she said obey me
i looked at her and said no...
in love we're equals
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Donovan Baldwin