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| Note that most of the poems here are taken from my membership days as a poet at the PoetryBoard. It was a chatboard where we converse in poetry and hiakus. It was a real challenge because some of the members were really good. I've tried to put a name to the poems although there were many that I couldn't remember. Most do not have titles, as like I've said, they were our conversations and conversations do not come with titles. I've tried giving them one but still some are better without. : ) See if you can guess which ones were written by me. |
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| Spring Love The black smoke rises from the pan, you smile and whisper that I will make a good wife. Scrambled eggs with thousand island dressing and oven-baken tortillas from the grocery. You wince and eat the food all the same. I don't mind you not liking breakfast but that's all I have. Please leave soon- your fiancee may wonder at the sudden sweetness of your smile. Your belly's a beer barrel's paradise- warmth in the cold night. Your skin shines like moonlight and breath- the beat of my heart. I notice a little mole under your armpit and you try to peer with all your might. I laugh. You shimmer among a million scattered dreams and the haze arrives as you hold me in your arms. I know there will never be another man like you. And you, with a serious look, tell me I am your only Spring- beauty with eyes of a doe and smiles of butterflies. I worry about her but you just hold me in your arms. For now, hush, let the Spring be savored and our woes be gone- two souls in a field of tulips and the smell of cut grass. - Sophie Leu |
| This was the award winning international poem organised by the International Poets Society. |