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Love Poems
♥ DO NOT LOVE ME YET ♥
Do not love me yet, for I
Am still a slender moon
A scimitar about the heart
Too sharp to touch too soon.
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Before I’m touched I need to grow
More full in golden light;
I need to smile upon my earth
And rule some patch of night.
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I need to know what roads and fields Lie
in my domain
And dull my brand new ecstasies
With sophomoric pain.
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I need the love of some blank boy As
cold and dark as me,
That we might grope in ignorance
And fear of what might be.
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And then, when I’m a silver bowl
And know what I can hold,
Then, then, perhaps, we could try love
If you are not too old.
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Love Poems
DO YOU WANT ME?
WHAT’S THE MATTER?
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Do you want me? What’s the matter?
You’re afraid some door will close?
You want the scent without the rose?
The moans of love without the chatter?
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You think our love might be a tomb,
The only exit through my pain?
You’d rather put things off again
To give your fantasies some room?
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You think: she’s great, but in a while
I might get bored? Or something better,
Filling out a tighter sweater,
Might flash me a quick come-on smile?
♥
You don’t want to be tied just yet
To just one future, just one kiss?
You think about all you might miss
And hold out for a better bet?
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Well, fine! But then why do you haunt
Me like a jackal night and day?
Why, when my interest seems to stray,
Are you so sure of what you want?
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Why, when I dare so much as laugh At
some guy’s jokes, you go ballistic, Nasty,
borderline sadistic,
As if somebody touched your stuff?
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And yet when I hook on to you,
You will not let yourself be mine,
Take out your fears and draw a line
Between what you and I can do?
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But freedom must be mutual,
And it takes two for one embrace.
You can’t both love and freedom chase,
Unless you would adore a fool.
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These poems from the book LOVE POEMS 2nd Edition Nicholas Gordon below is the link of complete book LovePoems2