Tag Archives: love poems

The low and quiet hum of it

Posted on August 16, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. There’s an aria here, too, and ballad moments. Nights filled with long slow love songs. Days drumming our hands against the furniture to the beat of our kids’ hearts, the rock album noisy rhythm of it all. There’s the … Continue reading →

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Us, to the 10th power

Posted on August 8, 2016 by whimsygizmo

A decade of days falls soft behind us, a mere blink of an eye and the building of a quiet life. The coast calls, and we fling babies to Grammy’s house and responsibilities to the wind, and follow that west-blown … Continue reading →

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love poem

Posted on October 20, 2015 by whimsygizmo

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or … Continue reading →

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Gerberas

Posted on April 7, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(swearing by all flowers) .. Our syntax falls in petals of a different kind, roses abandoned for their uptight trite fragility. Our best gestures vary, too, by paragraph, parent -hesis, no time for eyelid flutter; but a life whole and … Continue reading →

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This is Just to Say

Posted on April 7, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(a triolet) .. Oh, love is not a summer’s day, for winter comes quite quickly. Yes, plums get bruised and roses fade. Oh, love is not a summer’s day. Huzzah, now let us count the ways, some things regretted thickly. … Continue reading →

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Orion’s Belt Unbuckling

Posted on January 15, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Let’s give that fat and sassy moon something to talk about, something to squawk about when she bids the sun good morning. Let’s make sure the gossip’s juicy, as loosy -goosy tongues pry open this bold bruised sky. Let’s … Continue reading →

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I’ll Never Tell

Posted on November 20, 2014 by whimsygizmo

you think it’s swell that I sway to the beat of my own jagged tune, smash my favorite records under a dying moon and rid the world of one small gumdrop at a time. the way the rain finds the … Continue reading →

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