A Poet for a Lover

by C.J. Heck

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

 “We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

A Poet for a Lover

Oh Lord,
give me a poet for a lover,
whose words stroke me
like velvet hands.

Word-tender caresses
more reaching
than the caress
of a mere mortal man.

A poet's light touch
is so gentle.
Word-fingers probe
deep every time,

arousing me,
haunting me,
wetting me,
seducing me,
body and mind.

Oh Lord,
give me a poet for a lover!
Lust and fire
burn in his heart.

A silver-tongued devil
whose words make me ache
to be on my knees
in the dark.

Word-foreplay
making me want him,
only mind-loved,
I want to be free

to feel just one time
my poet inside,
where only mind-lust
up to now has loved me.

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[from the book, “Anatomy of a Poet”, by C.J. Heck]

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