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‘Pachelbel’s Love Song’ by Michael Maibach

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April 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
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When we listen To his sweet song, Did he then know It'd live this long? A song that gives To every age, A timeless sense Of history's page. Reminding you, Reminding me, Love songs can...

‘That I Might Learn to Love’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann

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March 30, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
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That I Might Learn to Love a villanelle That I might learn to love I sorely prayed with hopes that God might teach me by romance as yearning I the empty sky surveyed. Yet lovers marched in cumbersome...

Sonnet ‘1/12/2019’ by Edward Hoke

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March 13, 2019
Love Poems, Poetry
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O how I long to hold thee in my arms, And taste again of nature’s sweet reprieve, To cast off masks, false affectations, charms; To savor all I had before you leave. For thee alone I lie awake at...

Three Love Poems by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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February 27, 2019
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Today the Wind for Elizabeth Today the wind through winter’s unclad bones Drowns in its woeful howl my soul’s discant; Beyond, a distant hunter’s oliphant Salutes the dead beneath their...

‘Making Spirits Bright’ by Frank De Canio

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February 23, 2019
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  “Jingle Bells, jingle all the way” I sang to her to break the spell of what appeared to be her fell demeanor. Neither would she bray ‘in a one horse open sleigh’ “Hey!” but droned as...

“Though You Behold Me Silent in This Room…” By Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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July 29, 2017
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For Elizabeth On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary   Though you behold me silent in this room, Know that I walk in fields of fresh-cut hay; Though I be still, my thoughts like roses...
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