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Illusion
by Don Juan Amante → (All Poetry by Don Juan Amante)
Tuesday, May 17, 2016    Rated "PG" by the Author.
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I've been often guilty of enjoying lust, but I have also known love. Lust is meaningless without love, death is helpless in love's presence.


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ILLUSION

so many ways attraction reveals itself
eyes filled with desire, that conspire
to capture their prey in soft candlelight
a word, facial expression, body language
sensually whispering, hello, come closer,
I want to know you better....much better

lust is legerdemain, a mystic star trip
loud call of the wild, an imitation of love
a temporary panacea for arctic solitude
a transitory high, a pleasant deception
lips that meet, two tongues that tango
flaming rockets exploding in the night

loveless lust is for the lonely who cannot
or will not commit their soul to another
lone wolves too calloused or too scarred
to surrender to tender persuasion of love
real love will endure the fires of forever
lust and death are but dreamlike illusions 




  

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 Reviews of "Illusion"
Reviewed by Debra Bateman
Reviewed on July 28, 2016
True :)

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on June 28, 2016
You have a true gift not just for insight but also for expressing it in such elegant ways. I wish more men and women fully understood the truths you wrote of so eloquently hetr.

Reviewed by . .
Reviewed on June 4, 2016
you can have both! Love and Lust. I do ;)

Reviewed by Liana Margiva
Reviewed on June 1, 2016
VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Reviewed on May 28, 2016
I believe in love...and lust!

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on May 21, 2016
And there are those who start with loveless lust and end up with a love they have never Known...

Always,
Deborah

Reviewed by Dadfire
Reviewed on May 18, 2016
I have often wondered if there was absolutely no physical attraction between humans at all, how would procreation be handled if at all. It would have to be to continue the human race. I know it is an almost absurd question!

Dan

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 18, 2016
A powerful revealing of lust's character and feeling by the master of love poetry. While lust is necessary part of procreation, it is not fulfilling and hollow without love. And, it would certainly be nice to think that death was an illusion. I just hope that death's a disease that will be cured this century by eliminating all of its natural causes.

Ron

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on May 18, 2016
No one says it better.

Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on May 18, 2016
Excellently composed Juan
A profound worded treasure, a lesson in life
Thank you for sharing, peace be with you

William


Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on May 17, 2016
" Lust is meaningless without love," I don't think that way. I believe if both parties are just in it for lust, there is no problem whatsoever. I guess that is all I have to say.


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