Summer Daily Love Poems Summer Daily Love Poems Summer Daily Love Poems Summer Daily Love Poems
50+ poems 64 pages End July 201350+ poems 64 pages End July 201350+ poems 64 pages End July 201350+ poems 64 pages End July 2013
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Jim Hyde
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Summer Daily Love PoemsSummer Daily Love PoemsSummer Daily Love PoemsSummer Daily Love Poems
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ContentsContentsContentsContents
GoldenGoldenGoldenGolden Daily Love for a Girl 6 RedRedRedRed Summer Evening Flight 38
Lower Spine Spoken 7 Rubaïyyat 39
Promise 8 Bus-Stop 40
Crest 9 Filing 41
Ena 10 At Night 42
Credo 11 Shell 43
Va 12 Sunday Mornings 44
CrimsonCrimsonCrimsonCrimson Watercolour 14 SteelSteelSteelSteel 4 Winter Thoughts 47
Now 15 NightLife 48
Why Do I Love You? 16 Tidal Race Upwards 49
Moving In 17 UrLove 50
Interoffice 18 JadeJadeJadeJade Breathe 52
Jackie 19 The Way of Sleep 53
Why I Do This 20 Leinster 54
SapphireSapphireSapphireSapphire Aegean 22 Which Vow Can I Make? 55 An Trá (Beach) 23 Passing Time 56
Delta 24 The Way of It 57
Blackwater Love 25 HeatHeatHeatHeat Life Song 59
Koi 26 A Variation on Zalinka 60
I Can Hear 27 Kuss 61
SilverSilverSilverSilver Sydney 29 Radio Song III 62
Talking to Smart People 31 Coronation 63
Walking 32
Engage 33 Recognitions 64
Jardin 34
Love 35
Two-Minutes 36
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GoldenGoldenGoldenGolden
Summer Daily Love Poems
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Daily Love for a GirlDaily Love for a GirlDaily Love for a GirlDaily Love for a Girl
Daily love for
a girl who cares
for me
is all I need
to know and feel
and be.
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CrimsonCrimsonCrimsonCrimson
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WatercolourWatercolourWatercolourWatercolour
I have an unstretched, frameless heart
until you start to speak
Then my body paints itself
your whispered voice a brushstroke
With all your words my skin fills out
to gain its true-bond weight
In summer tones you're sketching me
my naked life your easel.
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SapphireSapphireSapphireSapphire
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AegeanAegeanAegeanAegean
Sleep now. The wind
from the Islands has calmed
and the Centaurs are still.
In the shallows the Nereids
are playing and here
is your Conch.
Come, be the Song.
Let the night take the sun
we have so very far
to swim.
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SilverSilverSilverSilver
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SydneySydneySydneySydney
Somewhere in this crazy
heart of mine
is you.
A rock, an anchor
safe harbour for a fool.
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RedRedRedRed
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Summer Evening FlightSummer Evening FlightSummer Evening FlightSummer Evening Flight
Watching the cloud-layers
slide across each other,
I'm reminded of
having sex.
I don't know why
at 30 000 feet I am
reminded of sex
but strongly reminded
I am.
Even more unclearly
I'm enjoying the clouds
the thoughts
and being reminded.
I hope my girlfriend's waiting.
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SteelSteelSteelSteel
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4 Winter Thoughts4 Winter Thoughts4 Winter Thoughts4 Winter Thoughts
In the cold river of the night
her body is a forge
In her hands are small caresses
shaping out my face
She takes the stone from in my breast
and hammers me a heart
to give it back grown triplefold
a shield to bear her life.
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JadeJadeJadeJade
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BreatheBreatheBreatheBreathe
with me.
In this long cold night hold me and
breathe.
Your face lies close and your life
is so warm.
The stars rain quiet, their distance
a snow through the trees.
Walk into my eyes and away.
Be still with me
and breathe.
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HeatHeatHeatHeat
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Life SongLife SongLife SongLife Song
I will ask the hardest thing of you
for I am tongue-tied.
I am fearful, weak, unlanguaged and lost
in your sight, so must ask
the hardest thing.
See the sky change colour, hear
the seasons turn
taste the winds flow by.
All these I make for you.
I have no words near you
and in every river-stone
and autumn-leaf
I write your name
with my actions.
So I ask the hardest thing -
that you say yes.
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Summer Daily Love PoemsSummer Daily Love PoemsSummer Daily Love PoemsSummer Daily Love Poems
All rights reserved.
© Jim Hyde 2013
Jim Hyde has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
to be identified as the author of this work.
ISBN 0-9546566-2-1
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