Posts tagged ‘love poem’

May 22, 2011

written a year and two months ago – a revisit

by jhon baker

off the cuff
Most of the greatest poets it seems really are assholes. I believe poets to be highly opinionated egotists bent of displaying to the audience the poet’s mind and naked view, almost a forced voyeurism, of not only the world the poet occupies but the audience that reads them as well. As a poet you must be ballsy and arrogant to even consider participating in the art as an adult as a serious pursuit I mean to say.
hand some women a banana
and they eat it.
Hand it others
and they masturbate on the spot.
off the cuff
but most would talk
about it, indefinitely.
meanwhile, I’ll
sleep as sound as poet in
post
coital recreation
aftermath.
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February 14, 2011

Happy Birthday Gregory Heins

by jhon baker

oh, and it’s Valentines day too.

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a love poem

 

I caught your glance

and offered a small gift

which you refused.

an apple,

a token, to toe

the water.

another month and you would acquiesce

to my teenaged display of nerves.

I was twenty-three

you were soft and scared

and thinking I’d meant to use you

but I’d love you instead.

you humored me

answering every question

I had.

 

you were twenty-five

and I knew, over coffee

that first night

at Denny’s,

our life would be braved

unknown

together.

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March 4, 2010

regret

by jhon baker

I
   regret
                things
                             like
                                     parking
                                                     spaces,
but never lovers.

One
        thinks
                     of
                         looks
                                    across
                                                 tables
                                                              or
                                                                   rooms,
but never someone who broke your nose.

– I wrote this

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