Submissions by BenSeven
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Polylingual polyamorous polymath seeks public place for private paeans
LOVE POEM
Published
8th May 2019 11:33am
8th May 2019 11:33am
Merely
I do not expect our hands or lips to touch
you know as well as I, unrequited
is my love for you, if I may say so much
yet know in you I would have delighted
full glad am I were here another year
but sad am I on me, you with disdain
will never look upon me with fairer eyes
nor think O, he is fine in your fair brain
around you I feel shy and coy and bumbling
what can I say or do to change your mind?
I am not politic not tall nor handsome
merely a man, and somewhat unrefined
merely a man, that loves merely a woman ...
you know as well as I, unrequited
is my love for you, if I may say so much
yet know in you I would have delighted
full glad am I were here another year
but sad am I on me, you with disdain
will never look upon me with fairer eyes
nor think O, he is fine in your fair brain
around you I feel shy and coy and bumbling
what can I say or do to change your mind?
I am not politic not tall nor handsome
merely a man, and somewhat unrefined
merely a man, that loves merely a woman ...
#love
#sonnet
#UnrequitedLove
458 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
7th May 2019 10:26am
7th May 2019 10:26am
How Wonderful the Day
#love
#lust
#erotic
420 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th May 2019 10:20am
7th May 2019 10:20am
On Moments in Time
If sand were to stop in the hourglass
a trickle of grain suspended in midair
I would not breathe a breath nor sigh a sigh
I would not kiss nor touch nor think nor care
thus statues we, close to suspended light
my life would be everlastingly complete
for in my moving life I have never
held close a woman so fine and crisp and sweet
I know our lives are very far apart
and how that distant time travels quickly past
you have your own life homeward I depart
romance reality break the hourglass
yet tarry, fall in love, grow...
a trickle of grain suspended in midair
I would not breathe a breath nor sigh a sigh
I would not kiss nor touch nor think nor care
thus statues we, close to suspended light
my life would be everlastingly complete
for in my moving life I have never
held close a woman so fine and crisp and sweet
I know our lives are very far apart
and how that distant time travels quickly past
you have your own life homeward I depart
romance reality break the hourglass
yet tarry, fall in love, grow...
#love
#friendship
#sonnet
374 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
6th May 2019 11:15am
6th May 2019 11:15am
Meadowy hollows in my heart (Kalbimde cayir bosluklar var)
Meadowy hollow in my heart
twas rough gougd out by desire
smoothed and sanded by your friendships
twas rough gougd out by desire
Kalbimde çayır boşluk var
kaba oyulmuş arzudan
bu oldu; düzgün ve kumlu
seniniz arkadaşlardan
There is a hollow neath my arm
a place on which to rest your head
a warm body mine beside thee
a place on which to rest your head
Koltuk altımda boşluk var
bir yer ki başın dayama
...
twas rough gougd out by desire
smoothed and sanded by your friendships
twas rough gougd out by desire
Kalbimde çayır boşluk var
kaba oyulmuş arzudan
bu oldu; düzgün ve kumlu
seniniz arkadaşlardan
There is a hollow neath my arm
a place on which to rest your head
a warm body mine beside thee
a place on which to rest your head
Koltuk altımda boşluk var
bir yer ki başın dayama
...
#love
#hope
#friendship
320 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
6th May 2019 10:56am
6th May 2019 10:56am
Fade (a brief masnavi in mutaqaarib metre, sll sll sll sl)
Once feelings of love fade kind friendship remains
when loves past desires no longer hold pains
I hope we happily can always be friends
because I know that love all nature amends
memory of love lasts in this universe
written across time-space and here in this verse
when all is said and done candles burn when lit
remember my friend well, we once spoke of it.
(June 2018)
when loves past desires no longer hold pains
I hope we happily can always be friends
because I know that love all nature amends
memory of love lasts in this universe
written across time-space and here in this verse
when all is said and done candles burn when lit
remember my friend well, we once spoke of it.
(June 2018)
#love
#friendship
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LOVE POEM
Published
5th May 2019 6:00am
5th May 2019 6:00am
Kedinize mesaj (Message to your cat)
Merhaba kedi, sen şanslı
her gece, senin bayanıla olmak
senin mutlu yeri, benimki olmak
o nasıl istiyorum, evet bu benim arzu
Hello cat, you are lucky
every night, to be with your lady
your happy place, to be mine
it is how I am wishing, yes this is my desire
onu güzel beden kucaklamak
onu güzel gözler bakmakde
onu harika arkadaşlık zevk almakde
sen çok şanslı, az gri kedi.
to caress her beautiful body
to...
her gece, senin bayanıla olmak
senin mutlu yeri, benimki olmak
o nasıl istiyorum, evet bu benim arzu
Hello cat, you are lucky
every night, to be with your lady
your happy place, to be mine
it is how I am wishing, yes this is my desire
onu güzel beden kucaklamak
onu güzel gözler bakmakde
onu harika arkadaşlık zevk almakde
sen çok şanslı, az gri kedi.
to caress her beautiful body
to...
#love
#lust
#erotic
#UnrequitedLove
#ForbiddenLove
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LOVE POEM
Published
5th May 2019 5:45am
5th May 2019 5:45am
A pair of fine eyes
Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice
Brown well-tempered Earl Grey tea in porcelain
clear like the dawning of a fine summers day
fierce like noonsun over tanned hills blazing
deep moonlit forests, long ago, far away
smart as a whip, and sweet as hot chocolate
wise owls mirrors watching, witching as foxes
lashes etch fine crosshatch over well...
Brown well-tempered Earl Grey tea in porcelain
clear like the dawning of a fine summers day
fierce like noonsun over tanned hills blazing
deep moonlit forests, long ago, far away
smart as a whip, and sweet as hot chocolate
wise owls mirrors watching, witching as foxes
lashes etch fine crosshatch over well...
#love
#friendship
#beauty
#sonnet
#admiration
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th May 2019 9:06pm
4th May 2019 9:06pm
Precious fragments
Precious fragments of pleasant texts
smatterings of conversations
smiling faces seen, and seen past
one glass red wine, poured libation
love is gibi tatlı pembe flowers
love hurts, love will tear us apart again
all you need is love, love is all you need
love is in the air, everywhere, in my brain
I hold your every word and sign so close
I hold many languages in my head
I feel your dear friendship by hints you show
I feel I'll feel it 'til I'm weary, old, and dead
ben evli, sen evli, ama,
and alas, not...
smatterings of conversations
smiling faces seen, and seen past
one glass red wine, poured libation
love is gibi tatlı pembe flowers
love hurts, love will tear us apart again
all you need is love, love is all you need
love is in the air, everywhere, in my brain
I hold your every word and sign so close
I hold many languages in my head
I feel your dear friendship by hints you show
I feel I'll feel it 'til I'm weary, old, and dead
ben evli, sen evli, ama,
and alas, not...
#love
#friendship
#UnrequitedLove #ForbiddenLove
#UnrequitedLove #ForbiddenLove
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th May 2019 9:02pm
4th May 2019 9:02pm
And if the heart can't have what it wants?
The heart wants what it wants
the mind knows it can't have it
the fingers write to ease the pain
the head goes hatless in the rain
the eye looks kindly on your face
the face lights in your company
the vocal chords hem, haw, and stutter
the giddy schoolboy butterflies flutter
the cheek unwanted sometimes reddens
the pulse at your kind word oft quickens
the heart, the heart wants what it wants
the mind loves on in silence.
(June 2018)
the mind knows it can't have it
the fingers write to ease the pain
the head goes hatless in the rain
the eye looks kindly on your face
the face lights in your company
the vocal chords hem, haw, and stutter
the giddy schoolboy butterflies flutter
the cheek unwanted sometimes reddens
the pulse at your kind word oft quickens
the heart, the heart wants what it wants
the mind loves on in silence.
(June 2018)
#love
#UnrequitedLove
#ForbiddenLove
587 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
4th May 2019 9:47am
4th May 2019 9:47am
Subincendiary
#love
#sex
#erotic #BDSM
#erotic #BDSM
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th May 2019 9:35am
4th May 2019 9:35am
Ne o dans etmek davullariza (What it is to dance to our drums)
Bir davul, davulım, oyunuyorum
dans etmek davulıma o senin zevk
görmek dans edıyorsun o benim zevk
ama ben seninki değil ve sen benimki değil
One drum, my drum, I am playing
to dance to my drum it is your delight
to see you are dancing it is my delight
but I am not yours and you are not mine
Ama o yeter, görmek dans ediyorsun
diz çökmüş orada ve yanında bana
biz eller ve yürekler yanında, yanında
seni seviyorum ve arzuyorum
...
dans etmek davulıma o senin zevk
görmek dans edıyorsun o benim zevk
ama ben seninki değil ve sen benimki değil
One drum, my drum, I am playing
to dance to my drum it is your delight
to see you are dancing it is my delight
but I am not yours and you are not mine
Ama o yeter, görmek dans ediyorsun
diz çökmüş orada ve yanında bana
biz eller ve yürekler yanında, yanında
seni seviyorum ve arzuyorum
...
#love
#erotic
#ForbiddenLove
411 reads
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EROTIC POEM
Published
3rd May 2019 8:59pm
3rd May 2019 8:59pm
You fascinate me (Seni cezbedüniyorum)
#love
#lust
#erotic #ForbiddenLove
#erotic #ForbiddenLove
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