title: Love Letters: A Collection of Poems
author:  Terrance P. Elmore 
description: Terrance P. Elmore is a writer, poet, and blogger who became an author with his first published book, "Love Letters: A Collection of Poems." He believes there is only beauty in love and it's reflected in his writings.
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  # Waking the Moon
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Hand
  
  
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  _Anyway those things would not have lasted long. The experience_
  
  
  _of the years shows it to me._
  
  
  _But Destiny arrived_
  
  
  _in some haste and stopped them._
  
  
  _The beautiful life was brief._
  
  
  _But how potent were the perfumes,_
  
  
  _on how splendid a bed we lay,_
  
  
  _to what sensual delight we gave our bodies._
  
  
  _An echo of the days of pleasure,_
  
  
  _an echo of the days drew near me,_
  
  
  _a little of the fire of the youth of both of us;_
  
  
  _again I took in my hands a letter,_
  
  
  _and I read and reread till the light was gone._
  
  
  _And melancholy, I came out on the balcony—_
  
  
  _came out to change my thoughts at least by looking at_
  
  
  _a little of the city that I loved,_
  
  
  _a little movement on the street, and in the shops._
  
  
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  CR Cavafy, “In the Evening,” translated by Rae Dalven
  
  
  For Oscar John Long,
  
  
  friend and voyager
  
  
  with all my love
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # _Contents_
  
  
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