BOOK REVIEW by Uriél Danā, Contributing Editor
Reluctant Seductions: The Red Light Stories is a book of poems by Anthony Doyle that drown his readers in sensuality. This book invokes all the senses of its reader.
Getting to know your lovers body, surrendering to your own pleasure, bondage, the awe of the Divine Feminine, awkward sleep overs, second dates, pay for play and the push pull of lovers not quite available are all themes. It’s the perfect book to sit by your night table or read aloud to your lover.
Anthony Doyle has been a poet from a young age. It has touched every aspect of his life year after year. He moved to Los Angeles in 1986 from Houston. He created 32 And Counting Productions, a publishing platform.
Reluctant Seductions: The Red Light Stories can be purchased on Amazon:
The Patient Carnal Gardener
©Anthony Doyle 2021
I like my roses grown
full bloom
near the waning turn of their Summer
the view
is so less complicated
the handling
is less precarious
and appreciated
rough
Feelings
are reciprocated
in an equal exchange
nonchalant
when she says
“save yo chivalry boy,
I need a man,
who’s tended gardens,
before”
Never minding
her weather
some storms
as they are
meant as they will be
harvest
for the hurting
is feast
for the famished
but I like my roses grown
full bloom
near the waning turn of their Summer
near the peak of their Fall
Saints at the Sinners’ Ball
©Anthony Doyle 2021
We are
we know
much like them
No better
no worse
Two do-gooders
dressin up like saints
dancin with sinners
Pardon me,
while I testify!
Raised
with values
adhered by a few
forgotten by many
torn by the inhibited
But we both know
you lost all your inhibitions
a day past the day
you became the woman
That woman
I decided I’d chase
and drop a bible for
along the way
But that’s more than enough,
about me
And maybe
just maybe
We’ll settle someday
for somethin
someone, nice
But nice,
don’t make you pick up that phone
when you know, you shouldn’t
Knowin you want to
knowin damn well,
you will
Finding time
when and where
there ain’t none
just an indiscretion away
Partners for a fix
for a minute
A duo
a match made just East of Heaven
playin infidelitous musical chairs
takin separate cars
half an hour past midnight
Damn you, damn me, damn us
come’on Cinderella
“let’s dance!”
