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Gamble everything for love
Gamble everything for love,
if you're a true human being.
If not, leave
this gathering.
Half-heartedness doesn't reach
into majesty. You set out
to find God, but then you keep
stopping for long periods
at mean-spirited roadhouses.
- Rumi
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Excerpt from "You Have the Lovers" by Leonard Cohen
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When he puts his mouth against her shoulder
she is uncertain whether her shoulder
has given or received the kiss.
All her flesh is like a mouth.
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Copyright © 1961 Leonard Cohen.
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"Earth Bed" by Colin Morton
Earth Bed
By Colin Morton
Less fiercely than river
carves banks
more subtly than glacier
hollows lake
you fit my body
to yours even now
as you turn in sleep
this stone to breathing soil
Copyright © 1981 Colin Morton.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide.
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and lock black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times ( Read more... ) -
Excerpt from "The Night Game" by Robert Pinsky
Some of us believe
We would have conceived romantic
Love out of our own passions
With no precedents,
Without songs and poetry-
Or have invented poetry and music
As a comb of cells for the honey.
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Copyright © Robert Pinsky.