Day: June 2, 2018

Baby Doll

~ thereluctantpoet

Dark Side of the Moon

Upon an ancient wicker rocker sits
A pretty little lady just as old.
How fair her alabaster cheeks, and smooth,
Yet never do they dimple with a grin.
Her azure eyes look on, but nothing see;
No word from her red lips was ever heard.
Those chubby little arms will never reach
As if to beckon me to hold her close.
My dear, if you and I had never met,
I’d be as lifeless as that baby doll.

antique dollAbout the poem:

I was looking at my antique doll sitting in her chair in the corner of the room when this poem came to me. At first I was merely writing about the doll, but as the lines progressed, I realized that I needed to make a point. She has many characteristics of a real live baby, but she is missing the main ingredient: life.

I, too, was afraid to live…

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Tell Me

~ thereluctantpoet

Come enjoy Franks’ – TELL ME”

Frank Solanki

Tell me the stars don’t shine
That truth can be confined
That love ain’t divine
And I’ll believe you
But don’t tell me that she is not mine
For I won’t
…
Tell me the sun is square
There’s no magic in the air
That God ain’t fair
And I’ll believe you
But don’t tell me that she doesn’t care
For I won’t
…
Tell me the birds aren’t free
Oceans are empty
God has no mercy
And I’ll believe you
But don’t tell me that she isn’t made for me
For I won’t

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Love is Infectious

~ thereluctantpoet

DO NOT MISS Paul’s amazing post – LOVE IS INFECTIOUS! Come learn all the wonderful things that happen to your heart, soul and body (all the chemicals) when love is in your life! SUPER POST!!!!

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via Daily Prompt: Infect

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My love walking the beach.

When we fall in love there is a chemical cocktail that is released into the body, literally infecting us with those feelings we call love.

Being attracted to another stimulates the body. If you feel elated, over-the-moon, energised, then dopamine has been released in your system. It works for other forms of elation too, winning a prize, gambling, sport, and drugs. Dopamine is the pleasure chemical.

Intimacy, closeness, bonding, means that oxytocin is in your system. Oxytocin is released when it gets physical, all that hugging, holding, kissing, touching, staring into each other’s eyes. Oxytocin calms and eneables intimacy and bonding. Sigh.

If sex is on the menu, then testosterone is in the system of both sexes. Testosterone is higher in males, and higher in male saliva, it is believed that kissing increases desire in both partners. Sex increases testosterone in…

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Promote Your Writing!

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Come and read Charles French’s invitation to – “PROMOTE YOUR WRITING”

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Hello to everyone! I want once again to offer an opportunity for all writers who follow this blog to share information on their books. It can be very difficult to generate publicity for our writing, so I thought this little effort might help. All books may be mentioned, and there is no restriction on genre. This include poetry and non-fiction.

To participate, simply give your name, your book, information about it, and where to purchase it in the comments section. Then please be willing to reblog and/or tweet this post. The more people that see it, the more publicity we can generate for everyone’s books.

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Celebrate and promote your writing! Shout it out to the world!

Feel free to promote a new or an older book!

I hope this idea is successful, and I hope many people share information on their books!

GallowsHillFinalCoverEbookGallows Hill can be found here…

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