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Yeats1 is a 43 year old single guy from Hermosa Beach, Ca, California, USA.
"A room without books is like a body without a soul"--Cicero Biography: I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating high school, I drove a 1972 Super Beetle across the country and ended up settling in Hermosa Beach, California. I was a history major at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am a published poet and the author of two books, Geneva, a Novel and Search Your Self: 365 Meditations for the Mind, Body and Soul, which was published by William Morrow. I also have written extensively for the Internet. As a hobby, I teach sheep herding and compete in herding competitions. Me and my dog Apollo were featured on CNN. I still reside in Hermosa Beach. I live with my nine-year-old son Dylan and our new dog, a red Border Collie named Flash.
Feb 2, 2:45am
A Love Song

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Reject me not if I should say to you
I do forget the sounding of your voice, 
I do forget your eyes that searching through 
The mists perceive our marriage, and rejoice. 
  
Yet, when the apple-blossom opens wide
Under the pallid moonlight’s fingering,
I see your blanched face at my breast, and hide
My eyes from diligent work, malingering. 
  
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw 
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw 
 Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon. 
 
And I do lift my aching arms to you, 
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast, 
And I do weep for very pain of you, 

And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.
 
And I do toss through the troubled night for you,
Dreaming your yielded mouth is given to mine,
Feeling your strong breast carry me on into
The peace where sleep is stronger even than wine.


--D. H. Lawrence