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your eyes remind me
of a crystal clear
sea with waves
crashing every second
Narcissism isn’t a crime
But if it were
I would sentence you
To life
In a room
With no mirrors.
Don't scream "I love you" from the mountaintops,
competing with the babel and clamor of the world.
Whisper it to me in the still silence of the night,
making me strain to hear it,
blocking out the din of the universe to focus on the melody of your voice.
Let me feel it infuse the skin of my neck,
carried by the sweetness of your breath.
© 2018, Steven S. McNutt
Source of love ...

since I loved you
I didn't count our distances......
I didn't feel the difference of times....
Oh sweet lady mine...
since i loved you ...
seconds ...
hours ...
and all days ...
stopped on you ...
because ..
i kept it all ..
only for you ...
and lived you ...
as you were with me ...
with my beauty sleep ...
with my all dreams ...
don't you know ...

When I miss you...
I'm touching my heart ...
to feel you ...
with every beat ...
because you are there ...
inside my heart ...
and the beat to my life ...
the smell of the happiness ...
to my all times ...
which i live ...
within you ...
because you are ...
the source of love ...
to my life ...
so , sweetheart ...
how i could live my life ...
without you ...
without your passion ...
which it got me alive ...
since i loved you ...

hazem al ...
As the world turns carousel-style
This smile you've left me caused my dizzy spell
I've tried to smear it on my shirt
So it would become impossible to get out
Mess up my whites
Stain through to my soul
Make my half wants whole

What I loved about our movements together
Was the fact that our bodies knew the rhythm
Before the track played
As the lights splayed onto your shoulders
Cheeks aflame
Air
Thick like your locks 35 minutes past 5 o'clock
Tumbling, similar to my weakening defenses
At that moment, it wasn't even Capoeira
But how could one protect their face
From such striking beauty?

Persian pearls penetrating my mind
Your eyes fight fires and ignite desire
That night, I would've been just fine
Dying on sight
Trying to hold a dancing dream at midnight.


Ifeanyi N. Okoro II © 2.6.18
Like a wild animal,
you heighten my senses as needed.
Smell is heightened for loving.
Sight is heightened for healing.

I do not love you with my mind,
I love you with my body.
Slight flicks of my fingers
along your naked lips
are the perfect sacraments
even if they are dumb sacraments.

A dangerous dance
jumps out of your hips.
A conflagration
jumps out of the dream,
and spreads like love
till all is ashes.
Spring's breeze feels
about the open window,
and my shy body
opens wide its eyes.

The perfumes of magnolia and
the crescent moon hanging
onto the end of the street
save my life.

There is nothing between us
but a sheet of pleasure, thin,
the way lighting strikes anywhere.

Indeed, momentary trust
is the wisest thing,
even in this dangerous world.
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