Lismore Books
Jim Hyde
50+ poems 64 pages End July 2013 â‚Ź10 (inc P&P, Ireland/UK) dailylovepoems@gmail.com
Summer Daily Love Poems
Summer Daily Love Poems (Sampler)
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Contents Golden
Daily Love for a Girl Lower Spine Spoken Promise Crest Ena Credo Va Crimson Watercolour Now Why Do I Love You? Moving In Interoffice Jackie Why I Do This Sapphire Aegean An Trá (Beach) Delta Blackwater Love Koi I Can Hear Silver Sydney Talking to Smart People Walking Engage Jardin Love Two-Minutes 3
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Red
Steel
Jade
Heat
Summer Evening Flight Rubaïyyat Bus-Stop Filing At Night Shell Sunday Mornings 4 Winter Thoughts NightLife Tidal Race Upwards UrLove Breathe The Way of Sleep Leinster Which Vow Can I Make? Passing Time The Way of It Life Song A Variation on Zalinka Kuss Radio Song III Coronation
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Recognitions
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Golden
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Daily 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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Crimson
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Watercolour 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. Summer Daily Love Poems Š Jim Hyde
Sapphire
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Aegean 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. Summer Daily Love Poems Š Jim Hyde
Silver
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Sydney Somewhere in this crazy heart of mine is you. A rock, an anchor safe harbour for a fool.
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Red
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Summer 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. Summer Daily Love Poems Š Jim Hyde
I hope my girlfriend's waiting.
Steel
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4 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. Summer Daily Love Poems Š Jim Hyde
Jade
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Breathe 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 Summer Daily Love Poems Š Jim Hyde
and breathe.
Heat
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Life 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. Summer Daily Love Poems Š Jim Hyde
So I ask the hardest thing that you say yes.
Summer Daily Love Poems All rights reserved. Š 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 This is a sample book provided on the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. This publication must not be published, circulated, distributed or traded, in whole or in part, via physical print or the internet.
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