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THE BARD's Blog – February 2012 Archive (3)

Raising Children

I put away the toys.

Cleaned the room and

Cursed and dammed the mess you made.

Grumbled about the many stubborn stains.

As I washed and ironed a million clothes.

Then I fell on the couch-

A tired heap of ageing blood and bone.

And looked around in sweet despair.

This home is....

-too quiet now!

-too clean !

-too orderly!

Come back!

I'll gladly trade this

for the joyful…

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Added by THE BARD on February 26, 2012 at 5:35 — No Comments

Of Dreams and Reality

The sheets cling to your slender legs.

You turn and smile as I stare,

Smothered by the scent of your orgasm

That floats in the air....

We reach out hungry again

For a lasting embrace.

Breast against chest,

Heaving sighs only lovers can understand.

The sun filters through the window panes.

You cast your sheet aside.

You arch your back and I feel

The softness of your skin.

Legs entwined, we rock…

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Added by THE BARD on February 26, 2012 at 5:21 — No Comments

PICKING UP THE PIECES

There is a part of me in E4

Where I still linger

Long after the bell has rung.

And I pause to collect my senses-

Stretched like the string of a bow,

With the demands of thirty hungry voices.

There is a part of me still on that verdant hill

Where I laid my classroom burdens at the cross one afternoon,

And wondered if God had…