Mine Beloved's birthday <br />shrinking feeling tad bit guilty <br /> <br />ours a tentative pencil arrangement <br />circumstantial conditions affording <br /> <br />and you radiant as ever <br />sun dress gleam-beam brilliant beauty <br /> <br />clearest light flood Julian day <br />sublimest nightshade <br />blinds draw sway <br /> <br />double-wrapped presents presents <br />privy dreamy dusky musky <br />peachy perfume play <br /> <br />and how you never cease <br />to confound astound me <br /> <br />beauteous beneficent baffling being <br />every woman and then some she <br /> <br />we the wise of tact and discretion <br />convention's demands so laden <br /> <br />contain conduct ourselves accordingly <br />upon such journey's returning <br /> <br />the giggly young couple <br />beside us on the shuttle <br /> <br />stupid cupid coddle cuddle <br />shameless belligerent ebullience bursting <br /> <br />parting snicker I crack upon leaving <br />brittle mask dam-burst thirst of envy <br /> <br />all the while privately knowing <br />harbour savouring <br /> <br />your scent stamp floral trail intoxicant <br />incense rapture petals retrieving <br />vaulted souvenir treasure marking me <br /> <br />i will wait another day <br />perhaps two <br />before showering <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />randy resh 2012<br /><br />Randy Resh<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/birthday-presents-2/