nectar nuggets

quick bites designed to entice

30 December 2025

In Silver Sheets

"Calmness over noise, fondness over extravagance—a daily devotion to love in words and action."
30 December 2025

Double Tap

"I think you were one of each—a double tap, a cosmic jolt that rewired my stars."
28 December 2025

Grounding Diptych: Lyric and Logic

"Threads of silver hum your secret notes—elegantly unveiled, breathlessly resonant in warm repose."
26 December 2025

Cuddle Whispers

"Our last touch was—cuddle me, cuddle you, cuddle in tune."
23 December 2025

CUBA!!

"Salsa—dance and taste—jazz turned into cuisine, the mojito mint, and Babalú, I love you."
23 December 2025

The Critic I Am

"In poetry's vast pantheon, I'm just a mote of dust—sparking, inspiring, sitting alone on a treasured book."
21 December 2025

A Christmas Stocking

"A Mug with your picture, full of hot chocolate, still warm from your hand."
20 December 2025

Truth Gifted (in Dream and Breath)

"Within a Muse, truths ignite—not always near, yet blazing in dreams, like candles flickering in winter's hush."
19 December 2025

Resonance

"I do not find it strange to hear the perfume of your beauty."
18 December 2025

I Collapse in a Smile

"The first time in front of me? You simply smiled—and all the world collapsed."
17 December 2025

The Logic of Descending Power & Terrible Uprising Women

"Self-realized, self-supporting, self-aware, self-made, self-disciplined—pure power."
16 December 2025

I’m Tired

"I'm tired of deaf ears, blind eyes, ignorant knowledge, vacant emotion—our complicity in a handshake."
16 December 2025

Truth

"I have neither the skill nor patience of structured poetry—thus, I write free verse."
15 December 2025

Crankshaft / Relationships

"Two pistons pumping back and forth on a crankshaft of friction—the engine of us, straining for ignition."
14 December 2025

Bare It All in the Solstice of Winter

"Barefoot at winter's fading light, I dance—unrobed, unafraid."
12 December 2025

The Table Leg Story

"I left the bar at 2 after telling this tall tale—except it's truth."
11 December 2025

New Hu-Man(ity)

"Not just part of eternity—eternity now a part of him."
11 December 2025

Our Museum (A Valentine’s Card)

"My favorite coffee cup—broken, still in the cabinet."
08 December 2025

Bleed While We Shape the Desert

"Bleed beauty into imagination. Bleed imagination into beauty. And thought blooms into rain."
08 December 2025

Time and Two Fires (One a Gift, the Other a Thief)

"Time is my friend and my enemy—on one hand it allows me to create; on the other, it limits how much I can spend with you."
08 December 2025

Your Gravity

"Only you hold the key to turn my soul into putty soft enough to shape."
03 December 2025

Love and An Imaginary Paper Rocket

"When love feels light-years away, one wish can launch a universe of magic."
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The "Nectar Nuggets" page features maxims of David's poems. The maxims are organized in batches from David's most recent poems at the front to his earliest submissions at the back. You can use the page number and date buttons below the boxed content to navigate. Recommended for use when browsing. You can also locate maxims for David's poems by visiting the Poetry Blog, selecting a poem and clicking on the "Maxims" tab. Recommended for use when reviewing specific poems.