I Wish I'd Written This

If I Were a Love Poem

By Delaina J Miller

I would woo you
to keep you warm all night
dreaming of things we could do
bodies so close
breath held tight
nothing concealed
denied
or untried.

I would have you wanting
as you tasted my words on your lips.
Your radiant smile
forever held in my stanzas
your sigh —
line breaks
setting our passion
to the right pace.

Faithful to the arousal
of words you read me
again
and again
vows of rapture
phonic ecstasy
you might even share me
if I were a love poem.

Delaina Miller describes herself as "a poet, content creator, and art enthusiast" who "enjoys decanting the soul out of everyday experiences". She currently lives in the Midwest with her partner. 

To continue in her own words:

"For a living I am a content creator/ copywriter with my partner and at the moment we are rewriting the website for a local career college. It has been a fun and at times challenging project. I also enjoy writing motivational non-fiction. I have a blog, Tune In 2 Life that I am in the process of churning into a motivational self-help book.

"My real passion is writing poetry. I look forward to the day when poetry can keep me in the lifestyle I have yet to become accustomed to. <smiles>"

I know Delaina online, via poetry groups on facebook. I have learned to greatly respect her dedication to her craft, as well as her personal warmth, humour and integrity. The poem I've chosen here is a recent one which utterly entranced me in the way it expresses erotic love through the metaphor of that other great passion, poetry itself.

She writes about her writing process at this link — which modesty almost forbids me from sharing with you, as she says such nice things about me! (She credits me with being a mentor; I'm not so sure she needed one.) However I shouldn't, on that account, deny you the opportunity to read the rest. It's always interesting, I think, to learn how other poets go about it.

You can discover more of Delaina's poetry at her website. She has self-published two ebooks, one of them poetry and the other designed to lift people's spirits. And there is a third in collaboration with her partner, Kristin Hatch, about the work of the charitable organisation FINCA in Uganda. You can check them all out at her Amazon page.   She also has a business website for her other activities.

I know we're going to hear a lot more from this poet in the years to come.

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