Love poems of Frederick Douglas Harper

MY PLEASURE IS YOUR PLEASURE 
ear love, my pleasure is to give you 
Pleasure, 
For that is the light of my life. 
The sharing of the desire you evoke in me, 
I trust, will burn free the shackled joys 
Of your most precious and priceless reservoir 
Of sensations longing. 
So timely now, so fervently now, 
Let us come into each other’s gentle arms, 
And set aloft and aflame the honey of our 
Ripened fruits. 
In this natural and spiritual attraction of ourselves, 
Let us trust our future hopes and happiness 
Untold to our romantic desires’ yearning. 
Reprinted: Harper’s Romantica: On Peace and Romance, 1988. 
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Frederick Douglas Harper 
 
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I WANT YOU 
e sat juxtaposed for a purpose other 
Than the unforeseen; 
Our eyes touched out of courtesy, but 
Quickly locked from the magnetism 
Of our own sensual vibrations; 
We trembled and struggled to control and 
Sequester our feelings for the other; 
Our bodies filled each other’s eyes in 
Subtlety and brevity between interludes 
Of trying to look unassuming; 
Our gender’s scent betrayed the truth of each 
Other’s desire to our deep breath’s yearning; 
Our skin flinched and our muscles tensed 
As we waited for separate buses, 
Hoping they would, this time, be late; 
We parted so painfully, knowing that 
We must see each other again, but 
Wondering so desperately 
“How” and “when.” 
Reprinted: Harper’s Poems on Love and Life, 1985. 
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LOVE POEMS of Frederick Douglas Harper 
 
45 
LOVE BONE’S WISH 
et me touch you with the tender 
Tip of a love bone and explore sites 
Of honey along the darkest chamber 
Of your hidden love asleep; 
Let me awaken the deepest senses 
Of life’s heights of two, connected in 
A whole thought of this love’s moment; 
Let my love bone embrace my bones 
To your bones’ embrace for this timely 
Moment and experience of our irresistible 
Love. 
Reprinted: Harper’s Romantica: On Peace and Romance, 1988. 
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