Frank Bana Poems

Come closer to me, dearest love,
To secret homes where we belong
Let my embrace be all your world
Our whispers its most perfect song
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Cancer blooms in the corporeal garden
Slow, dreamlike, insistent
Not advertising its next appearance
Choosing at will among the garden’s delights.
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At last I stand before your eyes
Clothed in shreds of consciousness
To abandon what of me remains
To your first and each succeeding kiss
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Womankind, please make up your mind!
You want a man true sensitive
A vulnerable romantic type
Open to his inner self and willing there to live
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Our poem is a distillation
wrung from common and raw elements
unhusked grains of experience
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I sleep in a beautiful structure
After years of apartment life
My child shies from all flying insects
My wife says there's mice and there's bees
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What lies beyond love
Seems to be an unknown country
An unprotected landscape through which run wild
All hearts unguarded
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Sun coming through
A straw hat
Once I had money
Now it is lost
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Like an asteroid
Appearing unexpected in the sky
You collided with my surface, drilled inside.
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Blind is the deepest love, where sight gives way to insight
And the wonder of her face is of no consequence

I summon my powers of composition, unswayed by her attraction
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