What Would You Say If I Told You . . .: Lesbian Songs to a Married Woman

By Laura Mechem

A collection of poems exploring one lesbian's unrequited love for a woman who identifies as straight. Haven't we all been there? This full-color booklet is filled with poems of both traditional and free verse. Using religious imagery to describe the holiness of the union that exists between two women in love, the poet extols the warmth and tenderness with which one woman expresses passionate love for another. Makes a lovely gift for the lesbian in your life, or for the straight woman you love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 11, 2011
• ISBN: 9781257541133

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The Heart Speaks

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Restraining arms from warm embrace,

And hands that yearn to touch your face,

I have denied, but not effaced

Their memory of you still.

Determined feet that would have fled

To you in a warm, but lonely bed,

I lay awake at night, instead,

Kept them shackled to my will.

From a bitter cup, I’ve taken sips,

Refusing soft and wanting lips

That would impart in one sweet kiss,

To you, my very soul.

I’ve held my tongue from speaking words

My heart demands somehow be heard,

And bids it sing like some small bird

This whisper in your ear.

And certain it is never wrong,

My heart would not be silenced long,

So in these words bursts forth a song

That no one else can hear,

Poured out upon these pages,

The words my heart must say,

As silent notes upon a score,

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