Her Sugar-Lipped Kisses Poem by Daniel Brick

Her Sugar-Lipped Kisses

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How can the rose be beautiful without the cheeks of
the beloved?
And without wine, of what use is Spring?

Basking on the lawn and breathing garden air are joyless,
unaccompanied by tulip cheeks.
For there is no beauty apart from her embraces and
her sugar-lipped kisses.

Without love-making, garden, roses, wine - all cause sorrow.
And this sorrow stops the flow of poetry. Look! ___________.

Daniel, you must have a thousand sheets of poetry lying around.
Take any one. Polish it. Present it to her as a peace offering!

Friday, April 18, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: love
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This is the third of my five Sufi-inflected poems... According to scholars and poets, the medieval troubadours were inspired by the mix
of the sacred and secular in poetry by Sufis and created a love poetry
in that tradition. One element in this poetry is the demands placed on the lover to prove his love. The beloved may appear cruel and heartless - the poets are always complaining of this situation - the purpose is to a better, truer, more worthy lover. It is a collaborative quest for the highest expression of human love, which crosses the threshold and becomes a divine love. This is the middle poem of my cycle and it focuses entirely on human love; there are no supernatural references.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nosheen Irfan 09 June 2016

It reminds me of Rumi n Hafiz. The wine, the beloved, the roses n the gardens...they all make up the world for a Sufi poet. Poetry needs a certain atmosphere to flow out of us. A beautiful, beautiful poem.

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Cigeng Zhang 16 April 2016

Flowers, wine, embraces, love of longing... a thousand of sheets of poetry... Nothing more than love. What a beautiful love poem!

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Liza Sudina 17 November 2015

Tneder questions invite to a dialog. Without love-making, garden, roses, wine - all cause sorrow. - sounds so serious and peremptory. I would keep silence about great virgins as John the Baptist or Virgin Mary. Jeee. But suddenly the poem stops at the most interesting moment. wanted more about love-making, Daniel!

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Mihaela Pirjol 21 November 2014

Such a lovely title...such a romantic poem! Tulip cheeks, sugar-lipped kisses...red wine drinks! The images and emotions are extremely tender and romantic; caressing softly every human heart in the spring of their emotions and feelings, longing, hungry for love. I am glad I found this poem, I absolutely love it!

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