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This Is
What A
Kiss Is
The Most Romantic Quotes & Poems
Which Capture The Rapture Of A Kiss
by Dave Davidson
with Becca Lynn Walker Walker & M. M. Mclaughlin
All Photography by Dave Davidson
© 2003 Dave Davidson - Think Wow
revised & republished 2011
FreonNeon.com
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Chapters
defining
describing
dreaming
daring
deciding
departing
Foreword
Who doesn't remember their first kiss? Who doesn’t long for their next? The
anticipation – the build-up - the follow through! It can be exciting, spine
tingling and scary all at the same time. A first kiss can awaken our senses like
nothing in this world.
Kissing is itself a unique language of love. A dialect that needs no words...
A kiss can be loving, romantic, reassuring, passionate and encouraging. A
kiss can communicate emotions deep from within our hearts.
This book celebrates the kiss as a way to share our love, passion and
devotion. Included are some of the best selected quotes and quips on
kissing. Sit back, relax and pucker up - here comes a kiss!
Dan Davidson
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defining
The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis
oris muscles in a state of contraction.
Dr. Henry Gibbons, Sr.
10
A kiss
is a nice
smack in
the face. John Donut
That which you
cannot give without taking,
and cannot take without giving.
Anonymous
A kiss is like singing into someone’s mouth.
Diane Ackerman
Love is simply a kiss smiling together up close.
Dave Davidson
Kisses are like confidences--one follows the other.
Denis Diderot
Kissing is poetry
in devotion. Dave Davidson
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A contraction of the mouth
due to an enlargement of the heart.
Anonymous
Lip service to love. Warren Goldberg
A thing of use to no one, but prized by two.
Robert Zwickey
What is a kiss?
The sure, sweet cement,
glue and lime of love. Robert Herrick
We are each of us
angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly
embracing each other. Luciano de Crescenzo
12
The kiss-
made of nothing,
tasting very sweet.
A most delicious compound,
with ingredients complete;
But if, as on occasion,
the heart and mind are sour,
It has no great significance,
and loses half its power.
Mary E. Buell
The act of kissing resembles a pair
of high heels shoes without the
high heel shoes.
Dave Davidson
13
Love is lightning and thunder
on a sunny summer afternoon
and bright rays of welcomed
warm light during a storm.
Love’s kiss can change
the weather. Dave Davidson
14
A kiss is strange.
It’s a living thing, a communication,
a whole wild emotion expressed
in a simple moist touch.
Mickey Spillane
Kissing is an interview with a private investigator.
Dave Davidson
Kissing is a whimsical physical feeling felt;
a chemical icicle peeling as it melts.
Cyrano De Words-u-lac
A pleasant reminder that two heads
are better than one.
Rex Prauty
15
Some Kisses
some kisses are confident
in approach and ascent
some kisses are hesitant
intermittently inconsistent
some kisses go smoothly slow
as eyelashes bid their closure
some kisses just seem to flow
as necks lean with composure
some kisses experiment like science
determining each lip bottom or top
some kisses are a delicate rinse
and seem to never want to stop
Dave Davidson
16
Unspoken promise
of a soul’s allegiance-
this, All this and more,
ah more! is in a kiss.
M. Phelps
Kissing is a means
of getting two people
so close together that
they can’t see anything
wrong with each other.
G. Yasenak
Love is like photosynthesis,
bringing affection to light
with a well watered kiss.
Dave Davidson
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting;
the long, lingering, loving, present one;
the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love,
of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise
and receipt of fulfillment.
Thomas C. Haliburton
17
A kiss
is a noun
both common
and proper,
Not very singular;
and agrees with
both you and me.
Anonymous
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst,
A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst,
Tho’ oft it prooves, in happie Hour,
The first sweet Dropp of our long Shower.
Charles Godfrey Leland
Something that often leads to marriage
because it leaves something to be desired. Adapted from Robert Fontaine
Love sought is good, but given
unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
18
A kiss is a
magic trick
where two people know
the method, but still pretend
amused with the result.
Dave Davidson
As a result of a kiss
there arises in the mind
a wonderful feeling of delight
that awakens and binds together
the love of them that kiss.
St. Aelred
A kiss is a lovely trick designed
by nature to stop speech when
words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?
Henry Finck
Love is a kiss rekindling.
Just as sticks rub together-
sparks fly, flames arise,
warmth is nurtured,
passion created.
Dave Davidson
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A kiss is a sort of glue
mending broken hearts,
after two friends argue.
Dave Davidson
Kissing is a gift exchange where each
recipient gets back what they gave.
Hugh Myrrh
Four sweet lips, two pure souls
and one undying affection-
these are love’s pretty
ingredients for a kiss. Robert Herrick
20
Kissing
is the best invention
for catching and keeping
undivided attention.
Dave Davidson
Each kiss counts. It’s the
thought that amounts.
Hugh Myrrh
Kisses are like grains of gold or
silver found upon the ground, of no
value themselves, but precious as
showing that a mine is near.
George Villiers
Love is kindest,
and hath most strength,
The kisses are most sweet,
When it’s enjoyed in heat of strength,
Where like affections meet.
Patrick Hannay
21
A kiss is
a contact,
a conviction,
a connection. Dave Davidson
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An unexamined lip
is not worth kissing.
John Donut
Whether lips or chins,
whether cheeks or hands,
when kissing begins-
love understands.
Dave Davidson
A kiss is an agreement over some kind
of excuse to celebrate an occasion.
Dave Davidson
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O love!
O fire!
Once he drew
With one long kiss
my whole soul thro’
My lips, as sunlight
drinketh dew.
Tennyson
Love is like
chocolate you can
taste with your heart
when kissing.
Dave Davidson
Kissing is curiosity revealed
in a court room where two who love
either act as a jury weighing convictions,
determining motive based on evidence
or as a lawyer pressing a strong case.
Dave Davidson
A kiss tickles the heart
like those long sudsy string mops
that dangle in an automatic car wash.
A kiss can cleanse the heart just like a
feather duster would tickle someone.
Or something sort of like that.
Hugh Myrrh
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The dictionary says that a kiss is,
“a salute made by touching with the lips pressed
closely together and suddenly parting them.” From
this it is quite obvious that, although a dictionary
may know something about words, it knows
nothing about kissing.
Hugh Morris
What is a kiss? The lips pout slightly, and
touch the cheek softly, and then they just part,
and the job is complete. There is a kiss in the
abstract! View it in the abstract. Take it as it
stands! Look at it philosophically. What is there
in it? Millions upon millions have plunged into
misery and despair by this kissing; and yet when
you look at the character of the thing, it is
simply pouting and parting of the lips.
Anonymous
Kissing is perhaps the best method
of preventing someone to tell a secret.
Dave Davidson
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describing
A kiss is an encouraging word
without words ever spoken.
Dave Davidson
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Peck
A forehead peck
is like a questionnaire.
A peck on the cheek,
shows that you care.
A peck on the neck,
reveals how you dare.
A peck on the hand
compares to debonair.
And a peck in the air
leaves room to spare
that lips once solitaire
are meant to share.
Dave Davidson
Lipstick is to lips
as red is to a rose. Dave Davidson
27
You can always
create a chance for
a second impression.
Dave Davidson
I think he is going to kiss me.
I wonder how I will breathe.
I remember ... it’s much better not
to think things through too much,
just to do them. So I do ...
He kisses me...
His closeness must have an
antihistamine effect, because,
though we kiss for a long time,
I am able to breathe.
Ellyn Bache
... we kiss. And it feels like we have
just shrugged off the world. Jim Shahin
...passionate
words of love
whispered and
delivered to
anxious ears,
have yet to lose
their magical
affect.
Becca Lynn Walker
28
My cheek
near your chin…
it’s my pleasant surprise
when your flirting eyes begin
fluttering as butterflies
do near summer skin.
Dave Davidson
My lips till then had only known
The kiss of mother and of sister,
But somehow, full upon her own
Sweet, rosy, darling mouth,
--I kissed her.
E. C. Stedman
. . . she lifted her face suddenly to him,
and he touched it with his lips. So cold,
so fresh, so sea-clear her face was,
it was like kissing a flower that
grows near the surf.
D.H. Lawrence
Less is best if more is a bore.
Cyrano De Words-u-lac
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“Scarlett,
you need kissing badly.
That’s what’s wrong with you. . .
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
“And I suppose you think you are the proper person?”
she asked. . . “Oh, yes, if I cared to take the trouble,”
he said carelessly. “They say I kiss very well. . . take heart.
Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it.
But not now, so I beg you not to
be too impatient.”
Gone With The Wind,
Margaret Mitchell
“I’d love to kiss you,
but I just washed my hair.”
Bette Davis in Cabin in the Cotton
“Kiss” rhymes to “bliss”
in fact as well as verse.
Lord Byron
Speak, cousin, or, if you cannot,
stop his mouth with a kiss.
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
With the heart as the puppeteer
let thy lips move smooth here
without strings of fear.
Dave Davidson
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Resuscitation
If I made an
impression,
a lip service
connection
of affection . . .
If I pounded a drum,
your heart’s sound-
once partially numb
If I freed a butter f l y
within these walls
where passion calls
Then breathe my love.
Let thy heart beat in time
while hearts prod
the mind.
Dave Davidson
Each kiss
a heart-quake-
for a kiss’s strength,
I think, it must be reckoned
by it’s length. Lord Byron
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The power of a kiss
can be the culmination
of agony in many miles traveled,
the velocity of love letters unraveled,
the potency of perfume piercing the air
or a delicate dance in a town square.
Dave Davidson
You are always new.
The last of your kisses
was ever the sweetest... John Keats
She bowed his head and joined her lips to his...
It was too much for him. He closed his eyes, surrendering
himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the
world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips.
James Joyce
Any man who can drive safely
while kissing a pretty girl is simply not
giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Anonymous
Women still remember the first kiss
after men have forgotten the last.
Remy de Gourmont
32
An intelligent girl is one who knows how
to refuse a kiss without being deprived of it.
Anonymous
When lips meet for the first time
there is a small spark in the heart
which explodes on impact.
Dave Davidson
As the intricacies
of a snowflake’s descent
and delightful delicacies
of the very first kiss;
no two are alike. Dave Davidson
33
...I was pondering a kiss just a little while ago...
a specific kiss of ours and the way we do such.
And, as I was engrossed in this activity, I became
aware of a hungering inside me. A desire so real
that it was as if it took shape and became its own
person. Oh, how I long to take you in my arms
right this very minute. How I yearn to place my
mouth upon yours and take your breath within me.
How I ache to let the working of my cavity create
that so often realized state after which you fall
away from me and need time to gather your senses.
M. M. Mclaughlin
It was a strange sensation,
a clumsy stumbling falling being caught,
the broad sunlit world narrowing to the dark focus
of his cushiony lips on mine. It scared me to death,
but still I discovered how much I had
been waiting for it.
Jane Smiley
34
With a kiss
let us set out for
an unknown world. Alfred de Musset
If at first, love is dealt
its then a kiss is truly felt. Dave Davidson
Lips only sing when
they cannot kiss. James Thomson
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If God didn’t
want me to kiss you,
would He have given
you such sweet lips? Hugh Myrrh
The moisture of a kiss
may contain less a than a drop of
water, but it can feel like a waterfall’s rush.
Dave Davidson
Only he felt he could no more dissemble,
And kissed her, mouth to mouth, all in a tremble.
Leigh Hunt
He bent his face towards hers.
She closed her eyes again and the lids fluttered
with a sudden tremulous movement
at the touch of his light kiss.
Aldous Huxley
...then I did the simplest thing in the world.
I leaned down...and kissed him.
And the world cracked open.
Agnes de Mille
36
How delicious is the winning
of a kiss at love’s beginning.
Thomas Campbell
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved
into air before my lips could touch you.
George Sand [Amandine A.L. Dupin]
If you don’t mind getting slapped
in the face, the odds of landing
a kiss are more in your favor.
Hugh Myrrh
Kisses kept
are wasted;
Love is to
be tasted. E. V. Cooke
The best way
to figure out if
a kiss will be
well received
is to kiss the
receiver.
Dave Davidson
37
Even the strongest
man becomes weak,
with a kiss on the cheek. Dave Davidson
For history to eternity
love’s kiss casts her magic spell on hearts.
Some willing, some detained, but once cast,
the heart is taken tender captive. Ahhh,
the power of a sweet, sweet kiss.
Becca Lynn Walker
So long as there is true, pure love in the
world, kissing will continue to be one of the
very finest pastimes of lovers... Its music is
the melody of the heart and the poetry of the
soul. Its rapture is the charm of youth, the
joy of manhood and the beatitude of old age.
Alfred Fowler
He glared at her a moment through the dusk,
and the next instant she felt his arms
about her and his lips on her own lips.
His kiss was like white lightning,
a flash that spread, and spread
again, and stayed.
Henry James
38
As we were sitting together,
suddenly there came into her eyes a
look that I had never seen there before.
My lips moved towards hers. We kissed
each other. I can’t describe to you what I felt
at that moment. It seemed to me that all my
life had been narrowed to one perfect
moment of rose-coloured joy.
Oscar Wilde
On taking the necessary step from the sublime,
we have the description by a lady of her feeling on
being kissed for the first time. She felt like a tub of
butter swimming in honey, cologne, nutmegs, and
cranberries, and as though something was running
through her nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted by
several little cupids in chariots drawn by angles,
shaded with honeysukles and the whole
spread with melted rainbows!
J. Brander Matthews
39
A secret for you,
a wink from me.
A place on the neck
or near the knee.
Seek me out like
treasure hunted o’er
inside elbow, under palm
to love’s distant shore.
Becca Lynn Walker
Kissable lips
and flirtable eyes
still foul the good
and fool the wise.
J.B. Opdyke
Some lips were just not
made to be left alone. Hugh Myrrh
Upon a kiss’s reflection
my memory stretches and bends,
recreating the lighting of rainbows,
reenacting indelible dancing shadows
like a crystal prism gently restoring
sparkling color and graceful hue,
kissing you transcends.
Dave Davidson
40
Your kisses
are a confession
revealing a love I already
knew about you.
Dave Davidson
Some women blush when they are kissed;
some call for the police; some swear; some bite;
but the worst are those who laugh.
Anonymous
It is the passion that is in a kiss
that gives to it its sweetness;
it is the affection in a kiss
that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
If I were what the words are,
And love were like the tune,
With double sound and single
Delight our lips would mingle,
With kisses glad as birds are
That get sweet rain at noon. . .
Algernon C. Swinburne
Love is most nearly itself
when here and now
cease to matter.
T.S. Eliot
41
Kissing:
a source
of gravity,
magnetism and
centrifugal force;
a ventricle variety
of vivid velocity
spinning all
at once. Dave Davidson
Every kiss provokes another.
Ah, in those earliest days of love
how naturally the kisses spring to life!
So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd
together that lovers would find it as hard to
count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to
count the flowers in a meadow in May.
Marcel Proust
42
If your hands hide your lips,
I shall just tenderly tickle you until
fingers pry and fears fly away.
Dave Davidson
We’d kiss all the way
from Arkansas to Rome,
Cause in each other’s arms
we were home sweet home. Shania Twain & Mutt Lange
A thousand kisses grant me sweet;
With a hundred these complete;
Lip me a thousand more, and then
Another hundred give again.
A thousand add to these anon
A hundred more, then hurry one
Kiss after kiss without cessation
Until we lose all calculation. . .
Catullus
It’s red, refreshing and bite sized like
succulent strawberries picked in the summer. Dave Davidson
...You are so beautiful in every way,
from the honesty you give to the petite structure
of your shoulders, from the kindness you give me
to the bonfire of your mouth upon mine.
M. M. Mclaughlin
43
...the promise of such kisses…where would
it carry us?. . . No-one could tell what lay
beyond the closed chapter of every kiss.
Lawrence Durrell
He kissed me and now
I am somebody else. Gabriella Mistral
Kiss someone on the ear;
Don’t say a word and they’ll
remember your message.
Dave Davidson
44
All the time I have been thinking of an armchair made
for two, in front of a huge crackling fire, the wireless playing
some tuneful tunes, and the firelight making shadows on the
walls.
Fire watching night! A hectic ruff and tumble and then
sweet reconciliation. A terribly beautiful hug and then clasped
in your arms, my head on your breast, something I am longing
for now, a kiss that makes time stand still.
Pamela Moore
A kiss is like salt water, seemingly a cool
quenching, yet leaving a thirst for more.
Dave Davidson
45
dreaming
A dreamy kiss leaves its recipient
in clouds of content.
Dave Davidson
46
I confess
and doubt if
I could be discreet
when, then and if-
our lips would meet. Dave Davidson
Never delay kissing
a pretty girl. Ernest Hemmingway
The kiss
is a rosy dot
placed on the
“i” in loving. Edmond Rostand
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For hearts who hide
kissing can provide
a spark in the dark
when lips collide. Dave Davidson
Near candlelight torch
or couch cuddling routine...
lakeside dock, skyscraper patio,
front door porch or dance floor scene,
mountain view rock or fireplace glow-
Is there a prominent place worthy
of our precious first kiss? Dave Davidson
48
Together
Want to kiss you,
but I know you’d turn away.
Perhaps this kiss
isn’t meant for today.
Love for you goes deep,
but its hard to explain,
this distance I feel
mixing bitter sweet pain.
I could reach out,
but you’d probably shrug-
which is bad luck for me
dancing for your hug.
What will it take
to get us together,
to express
how love can be forever.
The answer lies at the truth,
like a blanket fib whispering
passion in the ears of youth,
as hope questions disappearing.
Becca Lynn Walker
49
Waltz
Kiss
eyelids fade
as candles quit
love blind of faults,
feel butterflies swarm
dreams swing swayed-
molecules spark and split
impassioned synchronized pulse,
sweethearts keep wildly warm
by the impressions made,
imprints which permit...
a kiss with a waltz
in perfect form
Dave Davidson
50
Towards
as the power
of gravity pulls
as a scale
succumbs to yield
as a full moon
awaits it’s tidal pull
as a magnet
attracts its field
so I lean
towards...
Dave Davidson
51
In a kiss,
two spirits meet,
mingle and become one. St. Aelred
. . . we embraced each other with--how to say it?--a
momentous smiling calm, as if the cup of language
had silently overflowed into these eloquent kisses
which replaced words like the rewards of silence itself,
perfecting thought and gesture.
Lawrence Durrell
52
A favorable
kiss gradually creeps
uphill in leisurely suspense,
reaching an elevated pinnacle-
then quickly plummets down in a rush,
forcing hearts to soar in contentment-
riding curves, loops and turns.
Consequently, kissing is a
roller coaster ride.
Dave Davidson
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Weak
with the sight
of you in pure
bright white
with the magnetic
midnight look
appealing hook
with a solemn glance
or slow dance chance
glare of romance
with a tip toe hug
leaning and gleaning
as gravity’s true tug
with a kryptonite kiss
or sandy beach
careless whisk
my trust could rust
with weakness
in your presence
my heart could melt
with the feelings felt
from sweet beats dealt
my love would bleed
while trading passions
disguised by need
my life would regret
if tears would wet
if I remained weak
Dave Davidson
54
Never let
a fool kiss you
or a kiss fool you. Joey Adams
Kissing is an inspection
by the state of appeals. Dave Davidson
I can close my eyes when we kiss
because I’ve already dreamed of this.
Dave Davidson
Her lips on his could tell him better
than all her stumbling words.
Margaret Mitchell
55
Once In A Smile
Once in a smile
I remember how
our love was liberated
in the sense my dreams
have leaked into the day.
There has not been
a day since my confession,
which I did not reckon
the meaning and appeal
my kiss once revealed.
There has not been
a day where my disclosure
desired retroactive retracting
of meaning and appeal
my heart once concealed.
Dave Davidson
...It was a wonder to hear your sweet and lilting voice
over the phone within the last hour. You sounded so
bright and full of life. I was filled to hear your happy
tone. You said you missed me in your first sentence.
It was as if your words took form, coming through
the phone’s mouthpiece and placed a soft, warm kiss
upon my longing lips.
M. M. Mclaughlin
56
Kisses are like daydreams
unthreading its loose seams,
awakened by lip schemes. Dave Davidson
Though I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale
A kiss
is a secret
told to
the mouth
instead of
the ear. Edmond Rostand
57
Passion’s
Journey
let me take you to
oceans deep
let me wake you in
love's pure sleep
let me have you
and melt that heart
let me tease you
let me start
let me hold you
softly tight
let me need you
passion delight
let me treat you
to the real me
let me kiss you
tenderly
Becca Lynn Walker
58
Duty
I wish
to have the duty of
devoting an entire evening
the privilege of whispering
poetic endearing narration
into the blossom of your
curious attentive ears,
describing your
unending
undying
beauty,
so close
you feel
the words
bounce off
your heart.
Dave Davidson
59
daring
Of all forms of caution,
caution in love is perhaps
the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertland Russel
60
Kisses saved
versus kisses spent,
separate the brave
of determined content
with those swayed
yet still patient.
Dave Davidson
Yes, timing
is everything
for the initiation
of affection. Dave Davidson
The suspense
is thrilling me. Hugh Myrrh
You must not kiss and tell.
William Congreve
61
How
do kisses
come forth?
How do hearts
meet a mouth?
A woman tilts
tippy toes north,
while a man
leans in
south.
Dave Davidson
Let my lips fall where they may. Hugh Myrrh
Whether lips or chins,
whether cheeks or hands,
when kissing begins-
love understands. Dave Davidson
62
Twice
blonde with ambition
so beautiful
shy
you listened to my dreams
as I tried to peel yours to the surface
we dabbled time
in summer’s beach
splashing along it’s white shoreline
at the park
a spark of heartfelt honesty
disguised by disappointment
I could taste
your pale kiss
but at our picnic would miss
your first move
your invisible necklace with a note
reading:
kiss me hold me love me
one of the hardest moves
I never made
was to act as if I couldn’t read
a simple wet paint sign like that
so I set you free
only later to discern the lesson
you learned by missing my move
Aspen was colder the night
I called Chicago back
a slap in the face stings
when it’s cold out
when you haven’t
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written or called
in months
I guess that’s twice now
you didn’t get
what you wanted
I know
how you feel
Dave Davidson
You must
believe in
to conceive in
a kiss.
Dave Davidson
64
Daydreams & Wishes
to hold your hand
comfortably while riding
in a horse drawn
carriage
to lay my ear
delicately upon your chest
hearing your heart
beat
to delve into a
passionate steamy kiss
during a downpour
of cool summer rain
to stare
into your eyes
looking no further
for love
Dave Davidson
65
Exception
your safety
is dangerous
your trepidation,
a comfort
emotions swirling together
confused and intertwined,
yet many hearts
are still compelled
to be next to you…
mine is first in line
waiting, wondering,
watching.
Dave Davidson
All love is sweet,
given or returned.
They who inspire it
are fortunate, but those who
feel it most are happier still.
Percy Shelly
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
66
Unexplainable
Dramatic Pause
elevator floors disappearing
lost, forgotten, closing in
claustrophobia euphoria
eternal entrapment
in dramatic pause
lingering passionate existence
catching evasive wind
water's rolling rolling rolling
never more in tune
than this silence of one mind
algae creeping through drenching rain
waterfall umbrellas
carried to distant shores
swinging to heaven's floor
kiss…
in dramatic pause
Becca Lynn Walker
The hidden risk in love is
like walking a tightrope while over
Niagara Falls or wading knee high kissing
in a country stream. It’s the fear of heights
mixed with a cool quenching of love’s desire.
Dave Davidson
High heels were invented by a woman
who had been kissed on her forehead.
S. Totah
67
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in.
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me;
Say I’m growing old, but add
Jenny kissed me.
Leigh Hunt
Tippy toes,
necks bend,
cheeks tilt,
lips yawn,
eyes close,
hearts descend,
memories built...
going, going,
gone.
Dave Davidson
Love is what
melts Winter
with the warmth
of Spring kiss. Dave Davidson
A kiss can
be a comma,
a question mark,
or an exclamation point.
Mistinguett
68
It is not because things are
difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare
that things are difficult.
Seneca
After planting a kiss
be prepared for
love to grow.
Dave Davidson
69
Dip
eyelashes cascade
into the darkness
black fabric flowing-
brushing the dance floor
her back arched
against a strong arm
his lips leave a message
in a glistening reminder
a delicate massage
of gentle strength
Dave Davidson
There’s a difficult dichotomy
is kissing a loved one good bye.
For the very nature of kissing,
at the core of it’s conception
signifies a beginning begging
and birth to more affection.
Dave Davidson
70
Kissing Your Shoulder
you
weren’t
expecting this
you never saw
it ever coming
your head turned
looking the other way
I
seized the moment
-the chance
to finally express
in a secret attempt
for deliberate caress
a gesture sent
to impress
Dave Davidson
71
deciding
A kiss is a pleasant collision
at an intersection of decision.
Dave Davidson
72
Come From Behind
you would never see me comin’
tippy toes in clever clothes
coming from behind with secret lovin’
in the silence of a hiss
warm hands wouldn’t miss
but swarm and flash
by your eyelash
you would never see me comin’
a pleasant surprise covering eyes
absent of scare in a lover’s dare
in the silence of a hiss
I would ask you this...
"Guess who, pretty you"
I’d feel your cheeks impress
a worthwhile sneaky smile
as you guessed my kind caress
you’d turn and learn just who
came from behind to tease you
then lean and glean in lieu
and in a kitchen dream
you wouldn’t mind the distraction
you be swayed away in satisfaction
for in the silence of a hiss
I’d lift you from the floor
and whisk you up in a dream kiss
Dave Davidson
73
Kissing frequently
surprises disguises,
often remedies enemies,
always discovers lovers,
yet seldom offends friends.
Dave Davidson
Ironically kissing has
a corresponding medical dichotomy.
It’s a physical activity which takes your
breath away, in due course requiring
continued CPR techniques.
(CPR - Caught Passionately Romancing.)
Dave Davidson
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl
who flirts with him wants him to kiss her--when,
nine times out of ten, she only wants him
to want to kiss her.
Helen Rowland
74
Peck
right on the right
or was it the left?
I’m not exactly sure
since you took my breath
more than a real life dream
so this kiss came to seem
I still feel it’s effects
somewhere in here
I still feel those lips
against my lucky cheek
like a raspberry burst
squashing former fear
I’ll keep dreaming
And I’m still weak
despite quenching
love’s long thirst
from you, just you,
yeah you
Dave Davidson
The decision to kiss for the first time is
the most crucial in any love story. It changes
the relationship of two people much more strongly
than even the final surrender; because this kiss
already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig
75
On Edge
corner of her lip
on edge
of insecurity
sweet and soft
to kiss
yet sadly
a tragicomedy
sad to miss this curve
on edge
he develops his nerve
fingertip to chin
points the way
right where
affection begins
over the shoulder
on edge
towards a bolder
breathing breeze
placing pecks
along the neck
with tender ease
Dave Davidson
76
If I had but one wish,
one wish granted to me...
kissing you, it would be. Dave Davidson
The kiss in the taxi...remains in the memory as
perpetually unfinished and to be sought out again,
for as the taxi moves it gives to the moment that
physical proof of insecurity and ephemeralness of
adventure, over swift, arousing resonances which
cease at first stop…The adventure continues in the
head, in the body…Until the next taxi ride no kiss
will have that flavor of life and time slipping by,
uncapturable, unseizable.
Anais Nin
Don’t wait to know her better to kiss her;
kiss her, and you’ll know her better.
Anonymous
The first kiss is stolen by the man;
The last is begged by the woman.
H.L. Mencken
77
ORAL
DILEMMA
where can I
where shall I
where should I
kiss you first
on the cheek
center forehead
upon top of hand
divine lip thirst
where may I
where dare I
where ever
must I place
the tender touch
a surrender blush
of sweet lip
embrace
Becca Lynn Walker &
Dave Davidson
Real love is a pilgrimage.
It happens when there is no strategy,
but it is very rare because most
people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
78
Christmas traditions
are filled with meaning...
It means mistletoe dreamers
will again have an excuse.
Dave Davidson
If you are ever in doubt
as to whether or not you should
kiss a pretty girl, always give her
the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle
There she lay, amidst the dust and the cobwebs looking
so shining and beautiful and merry. . . that he knelt down
beside her and gave her a kiss. As soon as he touched her,
the spell was broken; Briar Rose opened her eyes and looked
wonderingly at him. . . they went down from the tower
together, hand in hand. Where one drop of blood
drains a castle of life, so one kiss can
bring it alive again.
The Sleeping Beauty by the Brothers Grimm,
retold by Trina Schart Hyman
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
79
Alternatives
if you were an
out-of-season
greeting card,
I’d read ya.
If you were a pair
of over-sized galoshes,
I’d try ya on.
If you were an upside-down,
right-side-up pound cake,
I’d eat ya.
But since you’re you,
true blue you
I’ll just kiss ya!
Becca Lynn Walker
Give me a kiss to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on,
To make that thousand up to a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick
Kissing is seldom too inspiring or too tiring.
Dave Davidson
80
First Kiss
The look of love
down from those eyes,
the lick of the bottom lip
adding an alluring bite.
She glances up knowing
he will lean forward
they cascade toward
their first kiss.
Becca Lynn Walker
The sound of a kiss is
not so loud as that of a cannon,
but it’s echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When they kissed it seemed as
if they did indeed imbibe each other,
as if each were wine to the others thirst.
Robert Speaight
If you be loved, be worthy of love.
Ovid
81
In the daily fine art
of greeting a spouse,
a kiss sparks the heart
and warms the house.
Dave Davidson
It is the passion that is in the kiss
that gives to it its sweetness; it is the
affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christion Nestell Bovee
It is pretty well established that lovers handle the
supply of kisses very lavishly. They give them and take
them with infinite disregard of possible consequences.
And still--and herein we see the wonderful quality of
the kiss--they retain the same intoxicating freshness as
at the beginning. In love everything is mutual, but
every demonstration of the passion contains something
new and rejuvenation, no matter how many times the
same demonstration has taken place before.
Christopher Nyrop
I dare not ask a kiss;
I dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
I might grow proud the while.
No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air,
That latelykissed thee.
Robert Herrick
82
How Much
You Mean
we could light a fire
on a cold dark night
sitting on the couch
I could hold you tight
we could light a fire
on a cold dark night
we could warm up to it's flame
and kiss in dim light
I would look into your eyes
and without words
tell you how much
you mean to me
Dave Davidson
83
departing
The greater the difficulty in letting go
in an embrace, the greater the love
held by those holding each other.
Dave Davidson
84
Never miss
a good bye kiss. Cyrano De Words-u-lac
There is a kiss of welcome and of parting;
the long, lingering, loving, present one;
the stolen or mutual one; the kiss of love,
of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise
and receipt of fulfillment. Is it strange,
therefore, that a woman is invincible
whose armory consists of kisses,
smiles, sighs, and tears?
Haliburton
85
Last Request Executioner’s Style
a fading wish
eye to eyebrow,
brow brushing by dimple-
lip lowering, cheeks turning . . .
(in front of a speckling fireplace
or tropical beach cozy cave sunset
or full moon at midnight wooden pier
overlooking a cool Switzerland stream
or a frosty snowman melting
winter keen evergreen setting
or
a remote telephone booth
or skyscraper height in the big city
or a palm tree shade
sunbathing lean)
just one
subtle connecting, semi-embracing,
gentle yet profound- slightly breezy,
tenderly smooth smooch, delicately dancing upon
the petals forming the flower from which you speak love
Before my grave do me this one favor,
and I shall leave peaceful as a dove.
Dave Davidson
I looked in her eyes and put my arm around her as I had
before and kissed her. I kissed her hard and held her tight and
tried to open her lips; they were closed tight... I held her close
against me and could feel her heart beating and her lips opened
and her head went back against my hand and then she was
crying on my shoulder.
Ernest Hemingway
86
Love’s favorite pastime is the progressive kiss. When a man woos a
woman he usually begins demonstrations by kissing her gloved hands - an
innocent enough act surely. But it does not long satisfy him. The glove is in
the way, and he longs to press his lips to her soft flesh - the white fingers first
- then the pink palm, and the blue veined wrist. She blushes a little at this
and draws her hand away, yet, surely, it is not very wrong, she thinks. After
that he begs to kiss her cheek - just one little touch of the lips to its velvet
surface - no more. Such a tiny favor to ask? And if one cheek is caressed,
why not the other? It is unfair to show favoritism. Crossing from the left
cheek to the right, leads directly over love’s domain - lips, the home of
kisses.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
His mouth wandered, wandered, almost touched her
ear, She felt the first deep flame run over her... He had found
the soft down that lay back beyond her cheeks, near the roots
of her ears. And his mouth stirred it delicately, as infernal angels
stir the fires with glass rods, or a dog on the scent stirs the grass
till the game starts from cover.
D.H. Lawrence
87
The suspense
in waiting for
the first official kiss
compares to pulling
a bow and arrow;
both require
patient strength
resulting in a
deep impression
when finally
released.
Dave Davidson
My dear right above
your chin please remain
for this is where my love
will begin to explain.
Dave Davidson
I cease not from desire till my desire
Is satisfied; or let my mouth attain
My love’s red mouth, or let my soul expire,
Sighed from those lips that sought
her lips in vain...
Hafiz
88
Blowing A Kiss
the barriers are obvious
as time will not send
only miles between us
only smiles will mend
. . . blowing you a kiss my friend
when the jester is involved
will poetry always allow
will a breath gesture solve
affection’s solution somehow
. . . blowing you a kiss just now
it’s a tangible maybe
though you cannot steal it
between you and me baby
can’t touch it but can deal it
. . . blowing you a kiss
just now
my friend ... feel it
Dave Davidson
“Then let us kiss once
more, as travelers setting out.”
When she had done as he asked and
knew that her lips would not touch his
again and that between them the recognitions
of love were ended, she felt him take her
hand and kiss it. Then, knowing herself
released, she turned away. . .
Charles Morgan
89
Airport Kisses
sometimes there’s that added
extra bonus peck on the cheek
after a heartfelt reunited hug
or a scene of heavy traveled eyes
meet the dividend of long miles,
a smooch of confidence occurs
there’s the stop you in your tracks,
stare at the reality of overdue reunion,
smash into each other’s face quick embrace
and there’s the basic slow glanced,
perfect neck turn, just right lip revival,
that pushes the heart forward
plunging euphoric echelons of
previously unknown depths
don’t forget the joyful pick your partner up
threshold,
twirl your girl idea
that makes a fond memory
for those who can remember...
Dave Davidson
90
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Why this delay?
Why waste the time in kissing?
What is the very meaning of a kiss?
Think of the best, the ultimate joy we are missing!
Hasten the moment of our mutual bliss.
Petronius
Love is to a match,
as lips are to striking
passion’s scratch. Cyrano De Words-u-lac
There are times when more honor
is bestowed in the absence of a kiss,
leaving only a trace of hope’s intention
in a gentle hugging nudge.
Dave Davidson
And when my lips meet thine,
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. H. H. Boyesen
Our spirits rushed together
at the touching of the lips.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
92
To A Kiss
Humid seal of soft affections,
Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
Speaking silence, dumb confession,
Passion's birth, and infants' play,
Dove-like fondness, chaste concession,
Glowing dawn of brighter day.
Sorrowing joy, adieu's last action,
Ling'ring lips, -- no more to join!
What words can ever speak affection
Thrilling and sincere as thine!
Robert Burns
She
embraces
me elaborately...
casually as a breeze,
softly as one caresses a flower;
she kisses me as dispassionately
as heaven kisses the sea, softly and
quietly as dew kisses a lower,
solemnly as the sea kisses
the image of the moon.
Soren Kierkegaard
93
In a ceremonial whisper, the groom kisses his
beautiful bride. Marriage, sealed with a kiss. It is in
this sacred action on the alter of love, in front of
cherished people, that two in love simply confess their
united passion. A favorite time of the ceremony,
participants and observers alike come alive to view a
private moment setting the scene for a lifetime of
romance.
"And now I pronounce you husband and
wife...You may kiss your bride!" A performance never
to be forgotten! The photographer quietly moves in
and snaps his best photo. During this sparkling
moment, the audience is moved greatly, a time for
jealousy for the men, and a time for love's reflective
fantasy in the hearts of the women.
Often in silliness and in serious marriage
planning, engaged couples talk of the big kiss. Will
she rise on her tiptoes? Will he take her face in his
hands, tenderly bringing his new bride to him? Will
she wrap her arms around him tightly or embrace him
lightly? All planned actions are forgotten as the two,
soon to be one, share the first physical moment as
husband and wife. He reaches for her, she responds,
the kiss is planted, and the crowd swoons in silence. -
Becca Lynn Walker
Kiss till the cow comes home.
Francis Beaumont
94
The
Kiss
witnessed
as only angels can
accenting the vows
being in love allows
commences a nexus
that no man can sever
presented
by a heavenly plan
raising the eyebrows
that passions arouse
comes an alter kiss
which will last forever
Dave Davidson
Decency counts
more than frequency.
Dave Davidson
Kissing activates like caffeine
awakening a romantic scene.
Cyrano De Words-u-lac
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Explosion
If life is love, long live love!
I want more life to love! Today I see
that a thousand years of thinking
matter less than one blue instant of feeling.
My heart was slowly, sadly dying...
Today it opens like a flower of sunshine.
Life bursts open like a turbulent ocean
that the hand of love has thrust into motion!
Today my sadness, its wings broken,
fled into the cold gloom of night;
now the last trace of sorrow
fades away into faraway darkness...
My whole life is singing, kissing, laughing!
My whole life is a mouth in blossom!
Delmira Agustint
...I am listening to Rostropovich
playing (and miraculously so) Bach’s Prelude
to Cello Suite No.1. It reminds me of the luxury
of your sweet mouth and the fervor of your
lips when pressed upon mine.
M. M. Mclaughlin
And our lips
found ways of speaking
What words cannot say,
Till a hundred nests gave music,
And the East was gray.
Frederick Lawrence Knowles
96
Love is a delightful day's journey.
At the farther end kiss your
companion and say farewell.
Ambrose Bierce,
Time is suspended during a reunion kiss;
leaving hearts never quite the same.
Dave Davidson
He glared at her a moment through the
dusk, and the next instant she felt his arms
about her and his lips on her own lips. His
kiss was like white lightning, a flash that
spread, and spread again, and stayed.
Henry James
I kiss you firmly a hundred times,
embrace you tenderly and am sketching
in my imagination various pictures
in which you and I figure, and
nobody and nothing else.
Anton Chekhov
97
Have You Ever
have you ever seen the sun
rise above tall palm trees
have you ever felt love’s touch
asking why a sudden arrow
have you ever dreamed for fun,
skies of love sending calm breeze
have you ever loved so much
flying high like a sparrow
have you ever let your heart
begin to hope beating near me
or have lips spoken lies of grief,
kisses broken beyond belief…
have your ever let love start,
then defend the heart faithfully
Dave Davidson
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...they stood under the trees, whilst his lips
waited on her face, waited like a butterfly that does
not move on a flower. She pressed her breast a little
nearer to him, he moved, put both his arms round her
and drew her close. And then, in the darkness, he
bent her mouth, softly, and touched her mouth with
his mouth. She was afraid, she lay still on his arm,
feeling his lips on her lips. She kept still, helpless. Then
his mouth drew near, pressing open his mouth, a hot
drenching surge rose within her, she opened her lips to
him nearer, she let him come further, his lips came and
surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet oh, like the powerful
surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry,
she broke away.
D.H. Lawrence
You’re the cellist
and I, your instrument.
You melodically strike in me
chords of contentment.
Dave Davidson
But his mouth was already slanting across hers, and he’d
already ensured there’d be no escape from it. Leisurely, with
infinite care, he bestowed on her the finesse of a lifetime, kisses
meant to entice, to mesmerize, to tap every sensual impulse she
possessed. Her arms were already encircling his neck when his
tongue seduced her lips to part, entered, and took her swiftly to
that realm of not-caring-what-he-did.
Johanna Lindsey
99
Wrapped around your arms…
I’m surrounded by your endless charms,
engulfed and overwhelmed with the intimacy
of me and you, you and me intimately.
Dave Davidson
These kisses are what you long for. They make you
literally ache with pleasure. They light you up and send shocks
through your nerves for hours and days afterward. They have
you laughing and crying and doubting your sanity and waiting
to stay up all night just so you can remember them. The magic
that transforms these kisses is the stuff of romance. They are
much more likely to occur in a romantic setting, under
moonlight, on a beach, at fireside, or in a spot that has special
meaning for both lovers...
William Cane.
Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure, this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
Its petals up; so, here and there
You brush it, till I grow aware
Who wants me, and wide open I burst.
Robert Browing
Putting your arms around the one you love
is a perpetual compliment.
Dave Davidson
100
...he kissed
her softly,
her hair,
her face,
her ears,
gently,
softly,
like dew
falling.
D.H. Lawrence
A kiss is produced by a kind of sucking
movement of the muscles of the lips,
accompanied by a weaker or louder sound.
It must be in contact with creature or object,
otherwise you could be calling a horse.
Christopher Nyrop
Actual contact isn’t
always necessary in kissing;
by sealing a letter with a kiss
or blowing a kiss through the air
the same love is sent behind it.
Dave Davidson
101
Kissing you could be torture;
Not kissing you would be torture.
Perhaps this is why my heart aches.
Dave Davidson
So sweet love seemed that April Morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange
We thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges
Thousands and thousands of years
Would never suffice To entice
That small second of eternity
When you kissed me -When I kissed you
One morning in the light of winter
In Parc Montsouris in Paris
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Your Lips
your lips just have to show up
to produce the demure desire
of such sweet smacking
to make newlyweds blush
your lips beg for attention
whether calm and alone
whether dry or in glisten
your lips begin the rush
your lips are so kissable
with just enough red spread
and perfect bounce per ounce
your lips beg mutual crush
I'm aware of your pucker
yet scared beyond your bite
giving goosebumps in sunlight
your lips just need to show up
Dave Davidson
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Dan & Dave Davidson’s mission statement
is found double time in the acronym T.I.M.E. - Teach, Inspire, Motivate and Encourage. & - Train, Influence, Mentor and Equip.
Other romantic based books by Dan and or Dave Davidson include, “Seasons of the Heart In Love,” “Honeymoon Heart,” “This Is What Love Is,” “Ever Captivated,” and “Lord of Our Rings.” The Davidson brothers also share the pen name of Cyrano
De Words-u-lac, part of the Rhymeo series. As of 2011, Dave and his wife Joan have been married 20 years and live in Iowa together with their six children. Dave’s professional photography and filmmaker background includes tons of weddings along with presidential political coverage. He is also co-creator of “Quotophotos” which combine his photography and quotes with his design including content from this book. He is a sought after energetic inspirational speaker and also performs and writes comedy material under his other pen name of Hugh Myrrh.
For links to free content, apps, audio, art, poetry, videos, social media links, blogs, all Dave’s business websites, his band PoetTree.com and his current list of 100 published books visit
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Dave’s email for life is [email protected]
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