Love Poem Competition

Love is like the cat's burp bubbling up through the atmosphere and popping in outer space like root beer

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Love is like all the stars expanding or collapsing at a different rate each corresponding to the sensation of time as we age -- how it goes faster like a car with no brakes or a car pulled by another car neither of which have brakes

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Love is like clay golems animated among us -- skulls not squarish, but round and they always wear glasses

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Corrosive spit -- that's love -- I hold it in my mouth and pass it to you like eating a peach and leaving myself there in the imprint

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Love is like the car on the highway -- this one functioning with brakes -- going along and the tires start to sigh and hum, a thrum, that becomes a companion more comfortable -- I shout out your name -- than most people I've met

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A ballad of love about smog swelling up the mouth of the bay -- one lover inhales the breath like hair in his eyes -- get a load of that air coming off her neck

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Children whose kisses are so clean and sweet like cold water -- everyone knows this -- that's why the children always win.

Copyright Louise Robertson