Imperfections
\nby cricketjeff on July 10, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nYou are not a perfect painting, nor the sunset touched by fire,
\nYou aren’t blackbirds singing sonnets in the trees.
\nYou are not a diamond necklace that all jewel thieves desire
\nBut your single glance can set me at my ease
\nWhen an artist needs a model he may pick another girl
\nBut the thought that I may see you puts my dreaming in a whirl<\/p>\n
You aren’t classical perfection, nor an ancient statue’s head,
\nYours is not the face that launched a thousand ships.
\nThere may be a million lovers who don’t dream of you in bed,
\nBut I need to feel your warm and tender lips.
\nYou are not on every poster you aren’t everybody’s girl
\nBut I’d rather find you near me than a perfect river pearl<\/p>\n
You are not by Botticelli, you aren’t Mozart’s only muse
\nAnd van Gogh would never send his ear to you.
\nBut you are the perfect lover I would rather die than lose.
\nYou’re the only sketch my heartache ever drew.
\nYou may not be in the papers but you are the only girl
\nWith a giggle in her whisper that can make my daydreams curl!<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI was reading Neruda, and this happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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