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Read our selection of the best poems by contemporary poets of all ages and nationalities.

As Long as Forevers Don’t Cease

As Long as Forevers Don’t Cease

Something moves,
Beneath the vermilion shirt
I had flung onto the carpet

Your world is quiet
And time is inert…

You find your way out
Not knowingly
Blessing my hour with a smile

The morning kiss,
You insist on one cheek
I feel a purr
Welcoming and sleek
A polite melody
Since you cannot speak

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The Meeting Place by Astharte De Los Santos

Meet me by the lemon drops……..
the tastiest to eat,
because your kisses are as sweet
as nectar.

We are lost in the field,
the tall flowers tickling my body
as I make my way down to the stream.

My dress flowing with the wind,
made from a curtain of silk
that I bought on my trip to the city.

Tonight the crisp air pierced me into excitement,
making it apparent that when I think of you
my body obeys.

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I am by Tina Cox

I am the woman that husbands don’t like
The woman that wife’s will never invite
The one with the mouth, opinions, and brains
Who’ll never be asked round to their house again

The cause of divorce one way or another
Who’s always accused of being a lover
Causing a rift at parties or work

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War’s a Waste by Glen R Baker

Why can’t we see that all war’s a waste
That a combat zone is a bastard of a place
And it really doesn’t matter which side you’re on
Because whatever your belief, war is just wrong

Why is it so hard to live with each other
We are all one, you’re my sister, my brother
When did we become so expendable and cheap
Why is life too hard to cherish and keep

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Against the Wall – An Erotic Poem by Chellie

My breath is ragged
As you slam me against the wall
Your lips locked with mine
In a heady kiss
Dripping with lust
And the taste of my desire

My naked body contorts
Against your own pale flesh
Trapped between you and the cold wall
As shivers run down my spine
And your hard prick sinks slowly
Between my legs

I cry out with pleasure
Wanting more
Needing more
Kissing you deeply
You swallow my moan
And make it your own

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Love and Dust by Hardeep Sabharwal

Nothing lasts, you said, gently tying,
The laces of your fashionable jogging shoes,
With a glistening in your eyes,
That put our love in the morgue,
As if love was a race just to win a medal,
My mouth was filled with the dust of your words,

Like a modern prep student, I nodded,
The April sky laughed,
The blossoming flower’s fragrance screamed,
In the most beautiful municipal park of city

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Tender is the Night by Will Neill

Tender is the Night
Of love’s once shining Star
By heartaches least wanted
I adore thee from afar

And if my soul could render
All of me I’d give to you
Along with Cupids sender

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From Calcutta, With Love by Koushik Sen

The half-tears eavesdrop down the cornice

Half filled gin,

And on the rocks, half resolved Calcutta, John Coltrane

The colossally bare tree against the smeared blues

Stands erect

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Time Out by Marjon van Bruggen

Going forward and forced to stop
the way light and shadow
play hide and seek.

I search and see a foggy future
in clear Waterford crystal.
It shatters as seconds cease
to tick tick on.

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Stay by Katie Lynn

Every day is quickly passing,
Each one of them a blur,
But you are always on my mind,
Of that I am quite sure.

As surely as the wind will blow,
Each day will start anew,
As surely as the world will turn,
My thoughts will be of you.

How your eyes light up with laughter,
Warms deep within my soul,

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