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    Romance Explored
    Romance Explored
    Romance Explored
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    Romance Explored

    By Sandra Staines

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    Romance Explored is a collection of poems dealing with contemporary love and romance.
    See if this little sample does it for you:

    Yes I was a fool
    Listening to his patter
    It was too smooth
    This patina of burnished steel
    The man could have seduced
    Anything, anyone and anytime
    And he did
    Me and a dozen others besides
    Including the guy down at the hardware store
    I should have known his wolfish ways
    He had eyes that would stray
    But when he turned his gaze my way
    I melted and practically squirmed
    In my chair at the fancy restaurant
    And he knew all the wines and stuff
    I was pleased; I was chuffed
    I had never known a man like him
    Even if I was worried about
    The pale band of untanned skin
    On his third finger
    I was the ingénue
    It can’t be denied
    Hungry for what
    A little town could offer
    A girl from the sticks,
    Everywhere he went he caused a stir
    I mean, how many men out here
    Wear Italian suits and know how to flirt

    (extracted from ‘The Wolf in Him’)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 9, 2014
    ISBN9781312087378
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      Romance Explored - Sandra Staines

      Romance Explored

      Romance Explored

      Copyright 2014

      Sandra Staines

      All Right Reserved

      First edition

      ISBN 978-1-312-08737-8

      Contents

      Perhaps Romance / The Wolf in Him / Your Chair / In This Dress / A Thousand Islands / Enchanted / Drawn To You

      Simple / Jagged Shards / Too Much Choice /A Kiss

      Slow Saturdays / What’s it Like? / When You Don’t Call

      The Dance / Keep Faith with My Heart / Safe / Love Is Like / Unmovable / Walk Away / Your Quirky Smile / Some Days / He Doesn’t Do Romance / My Defences / Whisper My Name / Slow Slide / A Wistful Sigh / Weave Me / Is Romance Real? / Where Lives Love / Ashen Grey Your Photograph / Bed Cooled / Weak That Way / Celebration / Slow River / Haikus / The Lighter Side of Romance

      Perhaps Romance

      Perhaps romance is more

      Than flowers and chocolates

      More than candle-lit meals

      And golden sands

      More than hearts and cards

      More than holding hands

      More than saying those three little words

      A million times a day

      More than fine wine

      And running your fingers

      Up the stem of the glass

      More than the little black dress

      And your favourite scent

      More than the fluttering of bluebirds

      More than ribbons and lace

      Perhaps romance

      Is someone just being there

      Day after day

      Seeing the same face

      And yet

      Seeing something new

      And seeing the best in you

      The

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