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If nothing ever changes

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If nothing ever changes,
then courtly love must still exist
Yet no one ever writes a sonnet
of their lover's lower lip.

I'd relinquish any limb
To gain the gift to sketch
But half of your lips, pursed and prim;
Forget the upper and its gracious cleft.


Rather take the lower, fuller.
Pungent with apt words,
Expressions with such vivid colour
They make mine feel absurd.


Cherries, apples, strawberries
Can't describe the shape:
Ever you are contrary;
Nothing in Nature has this nether-lip's grace.


Still can you blame me with such a fruitsalad lip
If on occasion my teeth, to taste, slip?
In the midst of another poem I thought of this but it *really* didn't fit. But it made me chuckle(at myself, how pompous is that?) so here it is...

Edit: decided it needed a sonnet to accompany the idea.

Is the romanticism too sickly sweet? And the initial stanza, is the comedy effective?
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