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on my Millay fascination

Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
Or rich with red corundum or with blue,
Locked, and the key withheld, as other girls
Have given their loves, I give my love to you;
Not in a lovers'-knot, not in a ring
Worked in such fashion, and the legend plain--
Semper fidelis, where a secret spring
Kennels a drop of mischief for the brain:
Love in the open hand, no thing but that,
Ungemmed, unhidden, wishing not to hurt,
As one should bring you cowslips in a hat
Swung from the hand, or apples in her skirt,
I bring you, calling out as children do:
"Look what I have! ~~ And these are all for you."

Picking Daisies
by Steve Hanks

rose in my diary

~*~

9 lines, 19 comments, on Jan 6 11:33 PM 2005. In Haiku, Personal

...always the same love

if ever i'll fall in love again
i want it to be the same way when

55 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 2 8:25 PM 2004. In Personal, Love, Hope

Rainbow

't was a cloudy afternoon
after rainfalls of clouds cry

33 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 2 12:51 AM 2004. In Fantasy, Personal, Hope

Eve of the Journey

I never thought we could get on our way
I never thought we could survived each day

34 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 15 7:07 AM 2004. In Personal