Love Poetry For Couple

Two huge lips went shopping ?on a pogo stick ??for a red satin handbag coordinated in colour ??with their cupid�s bow 'Two Lips Went Shopping' - title poem from Two Lips Went Shopping by Lizz Murphy (Spinifex Press 2000) republished with permission from the publisher. The poem was previously published in Blast. The book was the outcome of a 1998 ACT Creative Arts Fellowship

I watch myself how I use my voice how much I give away rebellion weighs against obedience prayer against fantasy rote against the thrill of words that lately arrive It was hearing a girl recite Ode to a Cabbage that made me want to write verse myself I hide my poems like hoarded love the taste of secrecy is delicious (Nun- the-Big-Irish gives the girl curry when she catches her