romance

Romance: a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love; love, especially when sentimental or idealized.

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Here's some inspiration from last competition:

wallyroo92 said:Make Her Smile


She’s a vision, a dream
Some may dare to compare it to heaven on earth,
Like vast and deep oceans with uncharted emotions
No one has ever ventured swim before.
When he sees her it feels like his heart
Gives way to a different rhythm and beat,
And then it repeats,
When her demure allure gets his attention,
Effortlessly,
Little by little, he wants more.

She sways in such a way,
Nonchalantly without any provocation or intention,
Enticing like innuendos, hinted and implied,
He finds it fascinating, mysterious and exhilarating,
Anticipating that at any minute
Their eyes will connect,
And they’ll bond beyond anything’s ever known,
With body and soul,
Yearning,
So he searches for the right words,
To make her smile again.


KublaiSwan said:One Like You


Ode to thee thy giver of dreams
Those golden curls of Icarus wings
Arise, arise this tender supplication
From lowly poet to lovely creation
Thy voice which forbears me the sweetest of song
Which follows thy beauty with thee all along
To lend forth thy spirit so faithful and true
Never have I met one like you.

_shadoe_ said:werbepause ~ {xvi}


i cannot romanticize
you or the startled
flutter of wings
against the cage
of my ribs
when you
turn your gaze
to
the potential
of my mouth ~
... you steal my breath,
make my lungs
seize in anticipation
of the next
oleander sweet whisper
into
the dividing aether...
i have no
saccharine lines
but
.
.
.
i think of you.
constantly.
is that enough[?]
//

LOVE’S SOUND

Not a word was said
Between lovers transfixed
Save the sound of a kiss
No other acoustics
Can grant such bliss

TIME TO LEAVE

Wake up please!
Hurry, get dressed
It’s time for you to leave
Don’t expect breakfast

Addresses and numbers needn’t be exchanged
I don’t want to know who you are
I don’t even what to hear your name
We both just needed to get laid

Just leave quietly
No need to cause a scene
If you need to use the toilet
Do so quickly and leave up the seat

So let me make this simple and plain
You’re nothing more than a one-night-stand
“UNDERSTAND?”
‘Sex’ was the ‘name of the game’

So Audios, Sayonara, Auf Wiedersehen
HIT THE ROAD…GET LOST!
Now go back from wherever you came
Don’t leave a thing behind to come back and claim

To me your were nothing more
Then another good little screw
So leave before I say something hurtful
Like, “I think I love you!”

Time's Defier

Time mopes and sulks, disconsolate, in his lair -
Try as he might, things just aren’t going his way.
“It shouldn’t be like this, it isn’t fair,”
He grumbles, hour by hour, day after day.
“I run the world, I bend it to my will,
If I say ‘Fall!’ things fall, if ‘Cease!’ they cease.
I freeze the seas, I lengthen winter’s chill,
I set the lengths of wars, the dates of peace.
So why does she defy my mighty power
By staying beautiful, year after year?
Her loveliness continues yet to flower;
I chide her, but she doesn’t seem to hear.”

And who is this who makes Time so irate?
Why, who else could it be? My lovely Kate.

You and Me

You see life  all around
I see death and dirty ground
You see flowers buds and seed
I see thorns and rotting weeds
You see  sunshine, I see rain
You see comfort, I see pain
You see fairies, woods and trees
I see wasps and killer bees

You like happy, I like sad
You like good, I like bad
You like Disney and chic flix
I like horror,slash and sick
You like soft, warm and fluffy
I like rough, scratch and scruffy
You like safe, plan preparing
I like risk and random daring
You like kittens, baby seals
I like animals that make good meals

You want jewellery, shiny stuff
I want cigars so I can puff
You want fitness to compare
I just want my comfy chair
You want order, no decay
I want war and anarchy
You want quiet, all is still
I want loud and overkill
You want sensual, soft porn, arty
I want racy, loose and tarty

We are strange, like chalk and cheese
And yet we’re truly devotees
We disagree on lots of things
And yet , together we bounce like springs
We should be in so much trouble
And yet we’re still a happy couple
Opposites at either end
Others just can’t comprehend
Joined securely at the hip
We still know how to jump and skip

Bolero

When I saw her I approached her
And asked her to dance,
She smiled and nodded without saying much,
She had a certain touch,
The way we waltzed and pranced
Across the galaxies,
She was indeed beautiful,
But after a million years,
The lights gave out.

Sometime later…

During the epochs of kings and empires,
I saw her again,
She was by a well,
With her eyes veiled,
But I recognized her.
I had crossed the desert and mountains,
On an arduous journey.
Later that night we danced,
This time we looked into each other eyes
A little closer,
With curious smiles and nervous laughter,
But after the festivities I had continue,
On with the journey.
I died at sea during a storm.

It was some centuries later when I saw her,
This time in the midst of revolution
Of all places,
She tended to the wounded,
While I carried a drum,
We recognized each other,
But we couldn’t dance then.
Fate wouldn’t have it,
The war and circumstances got in the way.

It was 1966 when I saw her again,
I recognized her by her smile,
It had been a while but we were young,
But this time we danced into the night.

(Bolero)
The band played, not knowing our history,
But it was a mystery,
The songs they played seemed to tell our story,
As we swayed on the dance floor,
We’d been searching for each other
Through the millenniums and centuries,
But that night was the right time,
In the warm tropical air, it was all there,
As we danced to boleros all night long.

I finally said..
Remember when we were stars?
And we waltzed across the constellations,
Or that time we danced watching the desert dunes
Under the light of the moon,
Or when I lost you during the revolution,
How many times did we cross paths?
All those dreams you and I have had,
Are our memories of the past lives we’ve shared…
So for this lifetime, and for the next,
Let's dance until the morning light.