Submissions by Baldwin
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
EROTIC POEM
Published
18th Mar 2024 1:58pm
18th Mar 2024 1:58pm
First Meeting
What would our "at last" meeting
make us feel or know?
A new lit vital life perhaps?
Forgetfulness of heart scars from our pasts?
A future for us finally unclosed?
The promise of an Edening within
a fallen world renewed
and close?
Come now, let us see
what havening for us
in such a time would be.
make us feel or know?
A new lit vital life perhaps?
Forgetfulness of heart scars from our pasts?
A future for us finally unclosed?
The promise of an Edening within
a fallen world renewed
and close?
Come now, let us see
what havening for us
in such a time would be.
#passion
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Mar 2024 3:49pm
16th Mar 2024 3:49pm
How with an air of quiet grace
How with an air of quiet grace
she’s come into my life
so like the way
the moon slides silently behind a cloud.
And only yesterday
I thought myself too old
to be an object of desire,
too winter-waned without,
within ice greyed
and blurred
to have once more
the heart inside me
stirred.
she’s come into my life
so like the way
the moon slides silently behind a cloud.
And only yesterday
I thought myself too old
to be an object of desire,
too winter-waned without,
within ice greyed
and blurred
to have once more
the heart inside me
stirred.
#romantic
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SELF POEM
Published
16th Mar 2024 1:01pm
16th Mar 2024 1:01pm
Body
It will not wait,
for even small surcease
of all the taxes and the tolls
that arrowed time
demands my flesh to pay.
And with each passing day.
I see within my mirrorings
and hard against my will,
against my exorcising efforts
to stand things still,
there’s less of any body wealth
that once was mine.
for even small surcease
of all the taxes and the tolls
that arrowed time
demands my flesh to pay.
And with each passing day.
I see within my mirrorings
and hard against my will,
against my exorcising efforts
to stand things still,
there’s less of any body wealth
that once was mine.
#aging
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LOVE POEM
Published
15th Mar 2024 4:09pm
15th Mar 2024 4:09pm
This Heart
This heart you’ve deftly thieved
from me,
you plunderer --
can you hear it
as it murmurs in your hands
a yes, oh yes,
and now asks when
yes when,
you’ll steal it yet again?
from me,
you plunderer --
can you hear it
as it murmurs in your hands
a yes, oh yes,
and now asks when
yes when,
you’ll steal it yet again?
#UnrequitedLove
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EROTIC POEM
Published
21st Feb 2024 12:32pm
21st Feb 2024 12:32pm
Your body's hows and whys
I love your body’s hows and whys
and its replies
to all the crescive ways that I,
when venturous,
explore them.
I love the twining paths
that they enclose me in
their graces and their feverings
that leave me thieved
in any of
our bedding 's
wheres and whens
of sense of place or time
and sin.
I cannot for the life of me
ignore them.
.
and its replies
to all the crescive ways that I,
when venturous,
explore them.
I love the twining paths
that they enclose me in
their graces and their feverings
that leave me thieved
in any of
our bedding 's
wheres and whens
of sense of place or time
and sin.
I cannot for the life of me
ignore them.
.
#lust
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EROTIC POEM
Published
20th Feb 2024 12:00pm
20th Feb 2024 12:00pm
Dreams
She wears upon her lips
the tinge of hard desire
and dreams while sitting
mirrored in her room
of lovers past
whose touch set her
in faded times
to life rushed quivering.
How strange, how strange,
she thinks
that memory can still
so sharply pierce a soul
with hungering.
the tinge of hard desire
and dreams while sitting
mirrored in her room
of lovers past
whose touch set her
in faded times
to life rushed quivering.
How strange, how strange,
she thinks
that memory can still
so sharply pierce a soul
with hungering.
#memories
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Feb 2024 12:59pm
14th Feb 2024 12:59pm
On Valentine's
Cupid, little bastard you,
smiling so self pleased,
while red birds fly
in circles round the sun,
oh damn your eyes!
Despite my armoring myself
against your arrowings,
your lies,
despite my cursings of your name,
despite my iron pledge
to never ever be love’s thrall,
despite my callousing my heart
to harrow tenderness,
to bury lust,
you’ve once more won
the game.
You've won it all.
With one wave of your lily hand
you spiraled me to pulsing memory, ...
smiling so self pleased,
while red birds fly
in circles round the sun,
oh damn your eyes!
Despite my armoring myself
against your arrowings,
your lies,
despite my cursings of your name,
despite my iron pledge
to never ever be love’s thrall,
despite my callousing my heart
to harrow tenderness,
to bury lust,
you’ve once more won
the game.
You've won it all.
With one wave of your lily hand
you spiraled me to pulsing memory, ...
#lust
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LOVE POEM
Published
11th Feb 2024 12:08pm
11th Feb 2024 12:08pm
Ah now I see
Ah now I see --
you want my voice against your ear,
you want me whispering your name
as if it were the only word I know,
as if it were a flame beneath my skin.
And when you feel that fire has reached my lips
and is then fevering my breath,
you’d have me whisper it to you
again.
you want my voice against your ear,
you want me whispering your name
as if it were the only word I know,
as if it were a flame beneath my skin.
And when you feel that fire has reached my lips
and is then fevering my breath,
you’d have me whisper it to you
again.
#lust
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LOVE POEM
Published
10th Feb 2024 1:16pm
10th Feb 2024 1:16pm
A year's gone by
Almost a year’s gone by
and I am yet,
against my will,
a shaken reed,
un-stilled
and ever drained,
and drear,
a hollowed thing,
laid sere and grieved and low
by unrelenting need.
I thought that I was stronger
for my years,
and that by now
I’d know relief
from emptiness
and grief
that’s centered in the loss of you..
But this, I see,
is such
a self-deceiving lie.
and I am yet,
against my will,
a shaken reed,
un-stilled
and ever drained,
and drear,
a hollowed thing,
laid sere and grieved and low
by unrelenting need.
I thought that I was stronger
for my years,
and that by now
I’d know relief
from emptiness
and grief
that’s centered in the loss of you..
But this, I see,
is such
a self-deceiving lie.
#breakup
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Feb 2024 1:52pm
8th Feb 2024 1:52pm
You think yourself a poet
You think yourself a poet, yes?
Then let me see from you
your aptitude,
and your agility
to capture with the way you write
a woman’s love,
a woman’s fire
how you have power now
to bind it hapless, helpless, close to you,
with words --
this wild, defiant thing
this thing that can’t be stilled or ruled
this thing that rages far
beyond the confines of a page,
this thing that loosens minds
and leaves a wake of trembling
deep inside her limbs..
Man up.
And show me that you really know ...
Then let me see from you
your aptitude,
and your agility
to capture with the way you write
a woman’s love,
a woman’s fire
how you have power now
to bind it hapless, helpless, close to you,
with words --
this wild, defiant thing
this thing that can’t be stilled or ruled
this thing that rages far
beyond the confines of a page,
this thing that loosens minds
and leaves a wake of trembling
deep inside her limbs..
Man up.
And show me that you really know ...
#WritingPoetry
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jan 2024 8:27pm
21st Jan 2024 8:27pm
once more
A warm light
shines upon my open bed
yet how my not-so-avid lover says again
not now, not now, not now.
shines upon my open bed
yet how my not-so-avid lover says again
not now, not now, not now.
#frustration
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
17th Jan 2024 3:46pm
17th Jan 2024 3:46pm
Does God Send People to Eternal Fire
Do you assert
there is a god above
who rules mankind
with grace, benevolence
and yet is by his nature bent,
intent,
to send
upon their death
and out of pique,
all those who have
in enmity
rejected him
into a realm of infinite
and endless pain,
a horrid punishment,
that lasts implacably
for all eternity?
.
And if you do,
then is the claim
that Jesus (and Paul, too) have made
that God is one who loves
not just his friends
but also all his enemies
a lie?
there is a god above
who rules mankind
with grace, benevolence
and yet is by his nature bent,
intent,
to send
upon their death
and out of pique,
all those who have
in enmity
rejected him
into a realm of infinite
and endless pain,
a horrid punishment,
that lasts implacably
for all eternity?
.
And if you do,
then is the claim
that Jesus (and Paul, too) have made
that God is one who loves
not just his friends
but also all his enemies
a lie?
#anger
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