a love of alice


from the ABC set 'Selected Poems: 1989 - 2009.'

A LOVE OF ALICES'

There's a kid called Alice
Alice please tell us
of your love for her
youthful, adorable ardour

Ah, for a kiss of those honey-suckle lips
they that daintily touches the glass and sips
hard to get to grips with loneliness
someone gave me the wrong tips

Had she found another I could tolerated it
even accept it and say: you deserve it
but this deliberate search for desolation and dreariness
that makes it so hard to grasp this

Lovable lass, all is not lost
adorable darling don't wait for the moss
to grow on your comely, sweet heart
call, like a lion I dart

Hold me tightly
smile at me brightly
love me rightly and
let me take you in soft sand

If you'll only deliver your love lady storm
give up some time maybe
come cuddle and kiss me
I'll yield to your tender warmth

We'll savor each moment together
moments of relish and rapture
I'll surrender my fancy forever
Your desire my heart can capture

I dart from the thick undergrowth
that is my past secure seclusion
I was lying in wait for so long
won't let the downwind blow wrong

The prey mustn't spring
this trap of passion
now is the time to dash and
to run with the rhyme and sing

got her, she's mine

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