(A note to reader: When courting in Hawaii a flower is placed on the ear, To the left means she’s taken To the right means she is single.This poem is inspired by this beautiful tradition. )
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Destiny’s Bloom

I give you this flower to place in your hair
If placed on the right then love we may share
My heart is compelled, to you beyond reckoning,
Could your name be beloved?
My senses are beckoning,
Walk with me now; let your heart be unbound,
I speak of rapture unlooked for yet found,
I speak of love so exceedingly fair,
I speak of touch, the soul lover’s share,
I speak of desire and consuming release,
I speak of afterglow, warm hearts at peace,
Laughtered meanderings, disheveled and spent,
I would speak of your beauty, a soul heaven sent,
With passions persuasion let our hearts beat sublime
Tracing words on your skin “ my love for all time”.


© 10/03/2016 Words: Michael James Garland
Picture source deviant art; red_winter_by_lonelypierot