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Joe writes poetry for grown ups as well.
Joe's sensitive, excellent poetry has earned him accolades from friends and awards as well. There are examples below, one from this tender book entitled Eddies and Vortices, and another more recent, unpublished poems.
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The overall theme of the book is Love and Beauty – beauty of women and of nature - but there is a smattering of humorous and politically-incorrect material. This book includes most of the love notes delivered during a thirteen-month courtship between a man and his neighbor across the street.
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A young woman takes a rhapsodic journey of fantasy into a lilac world after which she assumes the name “Lilac” and intensifies her fantasy into a lustful threesome with imaginary companions. This amatory story is erotic but not pornographic and explicit but not vulgar. The target reader is the sophisticated and mature adult.
Cupid's leaden-headed arrow is said to kill love; by contrast, Cupid's golden-headed arrow inspires love)
What kills love?
The humdrum work comprising daily life;
the never-ending chores by man and wife?
Annoying habits leading to disgust;
unrequited love is spawning mistrust?
An itch for life apart from tiring mate,
to turn elsewhere in search of better fate?
The ended passion marking lustful youth;
reaction to unveiled suspected truth?
Financial ruin because of past excess;
or dreams unmet and no hope for success?
Preventing growth; attempting to control,
the freedom lost begetting vitriol?
A lifetime devoted to none but self;
life's fullest measure kept upon the shelf?
Love wanes when proffered heart gets no reply -
the arrow of lead
strikes true and this
Love will die.
What inspires love?
A savoring to full of daily life;
patient sharing of tasks by man and wife.
Annoying habits unheeded at last;
love returned, old lapses kept in the past.
Relishing life and thus inspiring mate,
pursuing paths to new delights create.
Waning passions the mark of lusty youth
matures to deep affection, Love's real truth.
Enjoying life within the Golden Mean;
needs met now, prepared for the unforseen.
Each free to grow, to own interests pursue,
revealing ways to further love accrue.
Tho' reason for being may include pleasure,
helping others yields life's fullest measure.
Love grows when proffered heart gets like reply -
struck by Cupid's golden arrow such
Love cannot die.
Surrender yearning spirit to beckoning fantasy;
muse in sensuous interlude on floating reverie.
Quench Desire's carefree thirst; soar upwardly
where pleasant whispers rustle dreamily.On deep ceaseless vistas unbind reason's eye;
in blissful abstract leap, envision azure sky.
Join, now, a graceful pantomime of clouds
burgeoning into towering billowed shrouds.
With resplendent white mantles, sweep and converge
atop darkening base - and toward Heaven surge.
Gaze next on sapphire limpid bay below,
reflecting sunlit sky in burnished glow.
Pursue and savor wistful lastingness;
Idly sail wing-and-wing in - nothingness.
Sense cool mists and distant thunder drum,
portending showers soon sure to come.
With phantasmagoric sensations channeled,
drift to yonder lea, in sunlight now enameled.
Waft in rambling curve toward bright diadems
of gently swaying inquiring floral gems.
Glide to its refracting violet tint;
ponder the balmy scented pastel glint
emerging dreamily into rhapsodic view;
draw near to delight in fragrant lilac dew.
Savor ample verdant bush with curly spikes aleaf;
hover in radiant thought at its relaxing green motif.
There, speckled greenery like impressionist dabs of muted tones
assemble profusely to display blossoms in countless cones.
Each flowered pyramid flaunts exploding swirls
of thriving white cruciform flower curls --
Frail tiny stationary whirligigs
immobilized on splendor'd fragile twigs.
Following release, in climax, of fragrant aerosol,
enervated older florets prepare to fall.
Succumb to these enchanting floral arrays;
bask and tarry in hushed perfumed displays,
mindful of the random bee disinclined
to share with you its nectar'd treasure find.
Now, reluctantly dismount fantasy, contentment fair possessed,
lingering tendrils of Ecstasy in rapture just caressed.
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the eyes beam first, and lips later beguile.
Hostility vanishes for a while.
Resentment, scorn, hate and disdain efface.
A miracle unique to the human race.
I saw to my surprise,
Creation there, in my rear-view mirror
Dawn in miniature size.
As Sunrises generally are;
This glorious brilliant masterpiece
Was framed there in my car.
Unseen anywhere else on Earth
Streaks of gray and red on gleaming yellow
Across the Sun's expanding girth.
Or to ponder or analyze.
No chance to grab a camera
To offer later proof of my prize.
It all went away too soon.
My attention turned back to driving;
Perhaps tonight I'll catch the Moon?
friends and relatives and strangers
their images in photos
oils and watercolors
Mrs. or misses
their existence
resides in
beauty
all.
beauty
resides in
their existence
Mrs. or misses
oils and watercolors
their images in photos
friends and relatives and strangers
I admire all women young and old