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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 Š 2003 Dave Davidson - Think Wow revised & republished 2011 FreonNeon.com
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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.
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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
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The kissmade 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
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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
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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
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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
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Unspoken promise of a soul’s allegiancethis, 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
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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
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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 togethersparks 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 affectionthese are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss. Robert Herrick
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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
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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 beginslove 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
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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
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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 soundonce 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-quakefor 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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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dreaming A dreamy kiss leaves its recipient in clouds of content. Dave Davidson
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I confess and doubt if I could be discreet when, then and ifour 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 glowIs there a prominent place worthy of our precious first kiss? Dave Davidson
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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 shrugwhich 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
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Waltz Kiss eyelids fade as candles quit love blind of faults, feel butterflies swarm dreams swing swayedmolecules 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
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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
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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
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A favorable kiss gradually creeps uphill in leisurely suspense, reaching an elevated pinnaclethen quickly plummets down in a rush, forcing hearts to soar in contentmentriding 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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daring Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertland Russel
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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
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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 beginslove understands. Dave Davidson
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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 62
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dip eyelashes cascade into the darkness black fabric flowingbrushing 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
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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
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deciding A kiss is a pleasant collision at an intersection of decision. Dave Davidson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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departing The greater the difficulty in letting go in an embrace, the greater the love held by those holding each other. Dave Davidson
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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
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Last Request Executioner’s Style a fading wish eye to eyebrow, brow brushing by dimplelip 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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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 cocreator 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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