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Love Distorts Our Senses

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Love distorts our senses in peculiar ways.
Love places our discernment in a misty haze.

Sight becomes exquisite: ravishing beauty.
Sight becomes a vaporous, rarefied cutie.

Sound becomes euphony: diapason voice.
Sound becomes the melody of a heart-felt choice.

Smell becomes petrichor: "fragrance after rain."
Smell becomes gardenias distilling the brain.

Taste becomes delicious: tantalizing treats.
Taste becomes enjoyable, mouth-watering eats.

Touch becomes arousal: exciting desire.
Touch becomes titillation, setting lust on fire.

Love distorts our senses in curious ways.
Love places our common sense in a murky daze.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on May 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF AA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 610
Words 90
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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