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This mental serenade is beautifully composed in the brevity of your musing, my poet

Very dear Baldwin,
Your style of poetry is very beautiful and shows deep experience. Unfortunately, you are infatuated by one subject, beds and what follows. Why don't you try other subjects? Best regards.

Thank you for the compliment.

But I find your request that I should write on subjects other that on "beds and what follows",  ironic given (1) that it comes from from someone who posts, notably over and over again in the same style and with the same limited range of words,  on a very limited number of topics  and (2)  that the number of reads my "bed" pieces get, (not to mention that  others here who are not sycophants like, sometimes revel in,  and wish to see more of my dwelling on "beds and what follows",   my supposed "infatuation" with this subject is regarded by anyone but prudish you as "unfortunate".

I also find your claim that I don't  write about anything other than "beds and what follows" is amusingly false.  As the following list of my submissions shows shows, it is, as are the claims you make in your submissions)  miserably  uninformed.        

10th Month
A Challenge to J-Z
A Challenge to J-Z -- and anyone else here who might find it fun to imitate Byron, Yeats, et. al.  
A Ditty for Pharaoh
A Ditty on The Wages of Cheating
A Kind of Sonnet
A memory from long ago of Lee
A memory of GF  
A Pilgrim to the Trove of You  
A poem for you
A Renewed Challenge to J-Z
A Riff on Catullus  
A Steven-esque
A summoning
absence
Absent Friends
Abused  
Adam
After the Annunciation
After Thomas Hardy's Oxen
afterlife?
Aftermath  
age
Age
Aging
Ah Gabriel  
All This to Have  
An Alexandrine Challenge
An Emulation of  Thomas Wyatt's "And Leave Not Yet"
An Etheree  
Angels' Song
Annunciation
Another about Gilly
Another Ditty
Another for Anne-C
another kiss
another on J-Z
approaching another birthday
As He Lay Dying  
As I decorate my Christmas tree
Ash Wednesday
At First Sight
At Glastonbury
At Night
Augustine's Mistake
Autumn Emptiness
Autumn in Sherwood
awe
Ballerina  
Be Gone!
Because of you  
Before
Belly Dancer
Cathedrals
Chastity
Christmas Tide
Circe
Come Dance With Me
Culprit Moon
Damn you, Woman
Derbyed Men
distance
Ditty
Do Not Come With Me
Does death deprive?  
Does God Care for Ghosts?
Dreams  
Dreams
Ekphrasis
Eliot
Esker's Crest  
explorer
eyes
Farmer and his gun
Fire eyes
Fog  
For Anne-C
For J-Z  
For Summer
Giotto's Angel  
Give Me Now your Kiss
Gladiators
God
God Help Me Now
God is not Good: Bad Theology
God's Loaves
Golgatha
Golgatha
Grey Wing  
Growing Old
Ha Satan
Healing  
her crotch
Her Hands
Her laugh
Here
Here's What Comes from Remembering the Past
Hey Joseph-Z
him?
His Cold Fish  (for J-Z who won't answer the question of whether he's been desired by women)
How Can I Make you Believe?
How I Wish It Were So  
How Many Times?
How will you know  
I am religious
I Cannot Understand This Thing Called Soul
I Dreamed a Dream
I Often Sit for Hours  
I remember  
I Shall Not Share  
I Shall Place My Palms
I shall pretend
I want your mouth  
I Will Kiss You With My Voice
I wonder  
I'll Not be Obedient to Life  
If I could be there  
If I should craft new lullabies for you  
If I should craft some lullabies for you  
If You Wish It So
In Emulation of Ovid
In the Brightest of My Rooms
In Want of Words
Incarnation
Indecency
Indolence
J-Z and his "If"
Jealousy
Jesus Cannot Take my Loneliness Away
Jesus' love
Joseph's claims
Joseph's criterion for what makes a poem "great"
Joseph's Response
kiss
Kiss
Kiss Me Now
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Laura
Lazarus
Lies
light  
lines
little bastard
Loneliness is a Fish
Longing  
Manna from heaven
Mary
Memorial Day
Mitigation
Mortality
Mother Mary
Moths to Flame  
My heart
My Heart and Song
My hope for J-Z
My new cat  
My pissed off Muse
My Ram
My Skin is Taught  
Nativity
night
No Ambiguity  
No Jewels
Nostalgia
Not Soon Enough
not voiced
November's Trees
Odysseus the Liar  
Oedipus at Thebes
Old Simeon
On J-Z's "From Hands to Hands"
On Yoolis Night
One God?
pale moon
Parts and Wholes
poetical idea
Pope's Complaint
Quit Telling Me that Heaven Is My Home
Ravages
Regret
remember, body
Restraint
September Now
Sheryl
Should We Love What the Braggart Writes
Sin?
Song  
Stage Fright
stages
Subservience?
Sunrise Disturbed  
surprised  
That isn't proof  
The Arrogance and Stupidity of Patriarchy
The Bene Elohim at Christmas
The Claim
The Cygnet  
The Damning Present
The fallacy known as poisoning the well
The Glisten Gray
The Intent of Mary's Words to Me  
the narcissist J-Z!
the power
the power of the vagina  
The Purpose of Prayer  
The Road to Camelot
The Sway of J-Z's Ego  
The Traditions of the Best English Poets
The Usefulness of  Attachment to Jesus  
the wages of age
There is a Saxon Church  
There is Within Your Eyes  
This Body  
Through a Glass Brightly  
Time the Devourer
Tintagel  
Touch
Towards Cadbury  
truth
unremembered
want  
Wasting Time Writing Complaining "Poetry"
We Stood Outside
We Toured the Autumned  Cotswold Lanes
What I didn't do
What I Want
What I'd give
What Is It That You Want?  
What Shall I Do?  
what to pray
What Would Be Done?
Where are we  headed to?
White Christmas?
Whose Bodies
Why Remorse?
Will I sigh?
With apologies to Anacreon
Within Our Nested Dark
Within Your Eyes  
worship  
Wrinkles
Yeas Ago
Yesterday
You asked  
you away
You Did not Know It Then
You Ought to Know  
You Thief!
your desire  
Your Eyes  
Your Fingers
Your Master  
Your Name  
Your Searching Touch
Your Touch  
Your Words