Published 2006 by Coffee Press Journal, copyright, J. Donald Coonrod.
Your message filed on the Internet
is noted for sure,
but I know the spiteful you;
you’re a matter altogether neglected.
I accept your profligate ways,
but must add I love you
like the cold willful ocean
that washes my feet but could
just as easily engulf me.
Still,you’re in my thoughts a lot,
a gleam of light in a wet drop
on a flower threatened by winter;
let’s embrace and each love
part of each other again.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
Be safe,
Karen
Allen
Christine