♥Love is in the Air♥
By: Kenji

Casque d’Or
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
e e cummings
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I love your daring hang glides over meadows and ravines,
I love your scrummy puddings and the way you stir the beans.
I love the Cleopatran contours of your eyebrows when you frown,
I love the smile that lights your face outside the shops in town.
I love the way you snuggle furry bunnies to your chest,
I love your flair for reading maps that turns the East to West.
I love your feisty frissons when the room’s left in a mess,
I love the riffling breezes that flow up your summer dress.
I love your dainty frolics on a wet and cobbled street,
I love it when your nipples and the autumn moonlight meet.
I love your warm compassion and Scheherazadean eyes,
But most of all i love to run my fingers up your thighs.
Kenji
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My own favourites, but suggestions welcome.
♥ ♥ ♥
for a less commercialised day of love than Valentine’s Day i would suggest the Welsh St Dwynwen’s Day, 25th January.

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01Éric Rohmer
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02F.W. Murnau
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03Michael Curtiz
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04Alfred Hitchcock
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05Jacques Becker
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06Max Ophüls
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07Mark Sandrich
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08Frank Borzage
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09Fei Mu
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10Vincente Minnelli
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11Martin Scorsese
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12Hiroshi Shimizu
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13Éric Rohmer
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14Harold Ramis
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15Billy Wilder
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16Frank Capra
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17Stanley Donen
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18Krzysztof Kieślowski
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19Marcel Carné
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20Max Ophüls
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21George Stevens
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22Wong Kar-wai
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23Richard Linklater
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24Billy Wilder
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25Wong Kar-wai
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26Woody Allen
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27Luchino Visconti
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28Jean-Luc Godard
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29Yasujiro Shimazu
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30Preston Sturges
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31William Wyler
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32Douglas Sirk
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33Vulo Radev
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34Philippe Garrel
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35K. Asif
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36William Wyler
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37Jean Epstein
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38Julio Medem
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39Stanley Donen
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40Anthony Minghella
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41Zoltán Fábri
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42Nagisa Ôshima
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43Max Ophüls
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44Vijay Bhatt
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45Charlie Chaplin
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46Simon Langton
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47Lukas Moodysson
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48Stanley Donen
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49Walter Salles
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50Josef von Sternberg
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51Frank Borzage
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52Rouben Mamoulian
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53Hanns Schwarz
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54Woody Allen
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55Kenji Mizoguchi
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56Theodoros Angelopoulos
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57Stanley Kwan
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58Miguel Gomes
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59King Vidor
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60Frank Borzage
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61Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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62James Ivory
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63John Ford
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64Jean Painlevé
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65George Stevens
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66Sion Sono
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67Heinosuke Gosho
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68Khyentse Norbu
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69Willi Forst
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70Ernst Lubitsch
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71Jane Campion
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72Lee Je-yong
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73Melville Shavelson
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74Eugène Green
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75Matthew E Carter
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76Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
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77Evelyn Lambart