Tag Archives: romance

Guitar Man.

Posted on October 17, 2023 by peri, poet.

. He was lanky and wore a weathered jean jacket and there was no way he could have known my weakness for men who could play the guitar although just because he played one didn’t mean he was any good, … Continue reading →

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The tentative steps of the Queen of Missteps . . .

Posted on June 23, 2018 by peri, poet.

. Do you wonder sometimes why why you are here why you are you and how we both we two ended up here together in this place we’d never have expected in all our sunny years of youth all the … Continue reading →

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Questions of Love: imaginings . . .

Posted on May 8, 2018 by peri, poet.

. Is what you love what is, or what may be? What you imagine may be created, is future as fiction. This I’ve learned in a dream where a man in a striped shirt is on a high wire between … Continue reading →

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The Shoe Bird . . . a nearly-true short story.

Posted on May 7, 2018 by peri, poet.

. The Spring air is light, fresh and cool in my home today, windows thrown open with abandon (meaning: I no longer need to care that I might let in too much of waning winter coolness), and sunlight presses greedily … Continue reading →

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Not too late for Sorry, I hope.

Posted on January 8, 2017 by peri, poet.

. New Year, new chances, right?  A chance to right wrongs, make new starts, be better. Well, I am trying. Case in point:  after checking the weather on my phone this morning, I perused a dating app and lo and behold there … Continue reading →

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Of Love . . .

Posted on September 13, 2016 by peri, poet.

  Serendipity or Providence . She waited in the cafe’ just as they’d agreed, trying to look nonchalant sweating and drinking tea, thinking of his profile pic every time the bell jangled searching for his face. Nearly an hour later she still sat … Continue reading →

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Of Water.

Posted on August 21, 2016 by peri, poet.

. “Let me get you a glass of water,” he says, moving as a graceful blur towards the icebox. I didn’t even have to ask though perhaps look spent, parched as I am but who wouldn’t be? I wear the heat … Continue reading →

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Summer.

Posted on August 21, 2016 by peri, poet.

. How is your Summer? He asks,  just perfunctory I’m sure. But the lace curtains waft often enough in the warm breezes over scrub grass of lawns past, dry dust edging the sidewalks as when I was a child crouching over ants in … Continue reading →

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Space exploration.

Posted on February 8, 2016 by peri, poet.

. in the way that the sky goes beyond what I can see so are you, to me, mind and soul. I see only what I know yet depths like waters flow so deep you are below the waterline, beyond the borders, the … Continue reading →

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Heart warming . . .

Posted on February 4, 2016 by peri, poet.

. I’ve made it through winter without you, at least it is nearly so. I’ve shivered and froze, worn layers of clothes, but kept my heart warm for you. .   More Valentine verse.  Be loving! ~Peri

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