Ravensong Poetry And Writing Blog by Donovan Baldwin

By Donovan Baldwin

i watch in moonlight
hoping to catch a quick glimpse...
a passing goddess

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glittering ocean
changing every time i look...
drowning in your eyes

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dive into your depths
drifting within your ocean...
awaken on shore

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our private secrets
love stories enacted with...
different endings

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you are my model
posing for me constantly...
even when absent

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At the urging of the nuns,
I read of Homer's heroes,
Ravishing Helen who toppled
The "topless towers of Ilium",
Words musical to a boy,
A stirring tale replete
With godlike warriors,
And too human goddesses,
So romantically inclined
And also loosely clad, bosomy
Female deities full of passion,
Seething human frailties and desires
How could I, impressionable teen,
Fail to become entranced,
With the romance of poetry?

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Beauty not seen,
Not heard, yet sensed,
Understood without
Sound or sight,
Absence adding as much
As presence,
Making that which is here
So much more obvious.

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Poetry copyright 2020 by Donovan Baldwin
Painting, Selene, by Albert Aublet

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