Tulips To Lips Poem by Les Wordsmore

To you I give tulips. I have two as well
Yours are the two lips that stores cannot sell.
But these tulips I've purchased have fulfilled their duty,
To chiefly, if briefly, remind me your beauty
As sun does to sky, you brighten my day
As squall does to sailboat, you blow me away.
We're young and we're wealthy, time our one currency
Won't you make a withdrawal, and spend it with me?
I purchased these tulips, for I have no garden
I have but my words and for that beg your pardon.

Your praises flood phrases, shades of Euphrates and Tigris.
You're perfection, need directions from your retina to iris.
As dawn does to morning you light up my world
On a horse, tails are straight, but on pigs they are curled.
I thought this poem out, and I thought for a while.
Not sure what you'll think, but I hope that you'll smile.
I'll make you a promise and one you can trust
If I make you a sandwich, I'll cut off the crust.
I'll send you a present, and I'll send it for real.
In return just your presence, that'd be quite the deal.

Thinking of ways that I could make you mine
Seems lately the way I spend all of my time.
And I sit and I think, and I map out my words.
But then time comes to act and I'm lost and absurd
And my brain swerves uncertainly, crazed at the wheel
For my mouths refusal to show you just how my heart feels.

So I write you this poem, in hopes that you'll see
What a charmingly clever young man I can be.
But mainly the purpose of this is to woo
If you'd have me, for you, here's some things I would do:
I would hold your hand in mine, as we strolled down the beach
And I'd hold that hand often, whenever in reach.
I'd kiss you good morning, and kiss you goodnight.
If I had a good meal, I would give you a bite.
I'd paint you a sculpture, I'd bubble your bath
And I'd do something foolish, in hopes that you'd laugh.
I'll pack us a picnic, protect it from ants
I'll twirl, dip and swirl you, whenever we dance.
Write poems of your beauty, sing songs of your grace

Reside in my eye lid, forever your face.