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    Requiem for Lovers: Love Poems
    Requiem for Lovers: Love Poems
    Requiem for Lovers: Love Poems
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    Requiem for Lovers: Love Poems

    By S.R. Palumbo

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    SUMMERWINDS

    If only I could love again

    Breathe in again

    The sweet smelling
    blind unconsciousness

    of youth and spring

    If only I could sing
    again

    Live half complete

    In every moments
    expectation

    Knowing

    All of life itself
    was still ahead

    How less than dead

    The rest of all the
    rest would seem

    If only I could dream
    again

    THE PARABLE

    How easy it is to share
    nothing with nothing

    Hoping something will
    finally come of it

    While the anything
    of who were are

    Wanders here and there
    and everywhere

    Beyond all despairing
    parables

    Yet blinded still
    and mystified

    By sacrifice

    And the unconditional
    unrelenting

    Demands of love

    MOONGLOW

    We live in the immediacy
    of stifled dreams,

    Discarded loves that
    circle the moon

    In the dead of winters
    benality

    The long ride home,
    a safeway house

    Not far from Spring

    And a heartbeat away
    from reality.

    SOULMATES

    True love
    needs only silence.

    No words to speak,,,

    No need to whisper
    cheek to cheek,

    For everything
    that others might
    not understand

    Is understood
    emphatically

    With just one look:

    One glance
    within a crowded room

    Or far from home,

    Each talks to each
    incessantly

    And not alone.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 7, 2013
    ISBN9781483633831
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      Requiem for Lovers - S.R. Palumbo

      Copyright © 2013 by S.R. Palumbo.

      Library of Congress Control Number:      2013907915

      ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4836-3382-4

                      Softcover      978-1-4836-3381-7

                      Ebook         978-1-4836-3383-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 09/19/2013

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      CONTENTS

      SUMMERWINDS

      THE PARABLE

      MOONGLOW

      SOULMATES

      PRELUDE TO A KISS

      MY OWN CASABLANCA

      WITHOUT LOVE

      THE KISS

      NOT FOR LOVE

      (ALONE)

      LOVE ON THE ROCKS

      FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

      END GAME

      THE UNREQUITED

      LOVE STORY

      THE MATING GAME

      STARTING OVER

      THE OTHER WOMAN

      YOU AND ME

      THE ART OF LOVE

      JUST YOU

      ODE TO LOVERS

      ALL OUR LOVE

      THE LOVERS

      TOMORROW IS FOREVER

      IF LOVE WERE ALL

      THE PROPOSAL

      UNANSWERED PRAYER

      BEING THERE

      LOST HORIZON

      UNDER THE BLUE LAGOON

      SOUL QUEST

      LOVE’S LABOR LOST

      SOLARIS

      LOVER’S PRAYER

      BEYOND SILENCE

      LOVE

      ANNIVERSARY

      REQUIEM FOR LOVERS

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