Romantic Iambic Pentameter Poems

I walked across the sparkling morning dew.
A path where once uncommon beauty grew.
A bench we shared, woeful, lone, and broken, 
echoes a promise that we...

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My Heart me tempts, at staring of her eyes,
as if but I, was like a Feast to them;
When she, at me, does glare, my Heart...

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(Paul Callus & Eileen Manassian ~ March 2020)

Where poppies grow in brilliant bursts of red
and bumble bees go searching with intent
she often goes; there sits...

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The rooster's crow warns me that dawn has come
My sleepy eyes resist my need to rise
I blindly reach for her but she is gone
Then hear...

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I stood atop a mountain, long ago,


               My breath gone, from...

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Your lips would shame the velvet, spun for kings
     Your eyes to blame, the daggers in my heart
The wait to taste...

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Daydream Melody

A song can bring love’s daydream melody,
adrift upon a cloud of make believe
and then a woman’s mind will float away,
on silver linings to her...

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Upon a time, a story once composed.
Across the pages dancing letters waltz.
Met eyes. Together, him and her apposed. 
The villain, against them, inflict assaults. 
It...

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Femininity - Anima


Sweet femininity was formed in Eve,
   before thrown from the Garden for her sin;
      engrained in...

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In beautiful surroundings, sitting there,

sweet fragrance of carnations filled the air.

The perfume stirred romantic feelings while

we waited quietly.  But soon a smile

when all at...

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Alone, she sat quite still,
her gaze full fixed ahead.
Enrapt by visions fed,
scarce breathing e’er she will
disturb perceptions’ fill; quiescent as tho’ dead.

Into the room he...

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When I think of you surely I could fly
When you’re away I feel like I could cry
My heart beats fast whenever you are near
I think...

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You speak my name a tone that chimes so sweet,
Then gently stroke my heartstrings and you can.
You sing the song of love when our eyes...

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Life has cruel ways of muting emotions
Over time in how we treat each other
Manifest and shameful self promotion
At the expense of loved one’s own druthers

Forgetting...

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Twists and big turns in the name of real love
Either it will mend or break a heart
If this feeling of love, its author is God
Involved...

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