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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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You take my hand
in your hand

look at it
quizzically

trace out
each time

with a gentle
scarlet fingernail

follow each
tributary of me
to its source

your gaze
unravelling

the secrets
of me

one by one

your eyes
seeing

what I am
to become

your breath
touches my heartline

as I(wrapt
in your perfume)

listen enraptured
to tales of love

a future
dangled tantalisingly before me

and then you
make it all come true

not knowing
how to read palms

but knowing just how
to love me.

Dónall Dempsey

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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Scarlett Treat 04 March 2008

Well, I just don't know how you do this...how do you take such a simple act, one which anyone with a lover has done a thousand times, tracing the lifelines of our palms...and make it into such a tender, soft-spoken love poem...not knowing how to read palms...but knowing just how to love me is a killer line..

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