in me the moon rises
in me the sea swells
in me the surf breaks

my heart awakens
to the song of waves
my tides 
seek you out

i carry too much ocean within me
for a quiet life

all of me is drawn to you
again, again

with you i want to be the tide
with you i forget the shore
with you i am
open sea

#lovepoem
#lovepoems
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#secondlife

Now the poem I just posted is also in rhyme :) :*

I send you five kisses,
the shortest still shakes.
For you, one is rain,
one sunrise awakes.

The third of the five
loses its haste,
the slowest one stays—
in night’s soft embrace.

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#poetrylovers
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A short poem, in English and French (« cinq baisers »):

I send you five kisses –
the shortest
still trembles

for you –
one in the rain,
one in the morning sun

of the five kisses –
the third
loses its haste

the slowest –
lingers
in the night

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#poetrylovers
#lovepoetry

je t’envoie cinq baisers –
le plus court
tremble encore

pour toi –
l’un pluie,
l’autre soleil du matin

des cinq baisers –
le troisième
perd sa hâte

le plus lent –
reste
dans la nuit

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@alexbarthelemie

#A Birthday Letter to My Heart
#Another year older, another year learning to love and trust my own heart. 🎂❤️

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Das Hohelied Salomos

https://makertube.net/w/hbpXfHtzDaPuukaqA5gemS

paint me
red, pink, violet —
whatever sky remains

dress me —
your hands
quieting the fabric
still carrying the weather

read me —
blank page —
come closer

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Note: I slightly revised the version today.

you paint the silence
between us —
until i can no longer tell
where i end and you begin

not the colours
but the spaces between
where your breath
lingers on my skin

eyes open
i unfold
the path leads
to the place where i miss you

as if you had
always been absent
in a life
i cannot recall

not just seeing
but deciphering, reading —
your paintings let me in
into your space

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#eroticpoetry

Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

—Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jackie-kay/bantam/9781509887927

#Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window
facing each other
your knees held in mine…

—Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”🍓
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967

#Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #Valentine #lovepoem #lovepoetry #EdwinMorgan #20thcentury