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After a period of writer's block, I was hankering for a romantic poem, something sensuous. For inspiration, I looked to the Song of Solomon. One can argue its religious meaning and that's perfectly valid, but most high-school students could figure out what the song is about. The imagery of the song is exquisitely sensuous and erotic and yet still poetic and elegant (I've grown pretty tired of the crass descriptions of sex in poetry and songs from this era and I suppose that this was also an effort to restore some sensuous elegance to the subject). I looked for the appropriate similes and metaphors (plants, animals, natural forces, etc), sensuous materials, sensuous odors, sensuous textures, sensuous settings, evocative descriptions ("nutmeg hair" instead of "brown hair", "coffee skin" instead of "dark skin", "bourbon eyes" instead of "brown eyes", etc.), and just anything that appeals to the senses.
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This is not my first or last visit to this poem, which is so beautiful that I cannot take it all in during a first reading. I have been reading poetry since Spring, 1973, and have been a published poet since 1994---and this is one of the finest love poems I have ever read at any time, anywhere. Your depiction of homoerotic love and desire is so classic it ought to be studied on the college level.