Love Songs

"Love Songs" is Seventy-four lyrical poems about everyone's favorite topic - remembrances of first sexual stirrings, coming togethers and breakups, looking back on decades of commitment, flights of fancy and poems about skin, touch and "Making Love Before Ramen and Diet Pepsi Again."

"Love Songs" is Seventy-four lyrical poems about everyone's favorite topic - remembrances of first sexual stirrings, coming togethers and breakups, looking back on decades of commitment, flights of fancy and poems about skin, touch and "Making Love Before Ramen and Diet Pepsi Again." All contain an element of musicality, a few written as ballads with choruses such as "Moonlight Waltz" and "The Vampire Bride". Everywhere there are elements of magic, surrealism and even witchcraft.

Bob McAfee is the author of six books of poetry in the past six years. His degrees are in mathematics and computer science but he has been writing poetry for a lifetime. For many years he worked in Boston and wrote for an hour each direction on the commuter rail. He continues to write for two hours a day. His style is eclectic, but his goal is producing poems with both fierceness and a reluctant sense of optimism. Examples of his work may be found at bobmcafee.com.