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Long ago an author said, “Lives
Of quiet
desperation”
To describe most of us
And the
state of our relations
But I for one have found a life
For which
it isn’t true
I have begun again , you see
And have a
different view
I’ve been blessed with love that’s grand
And friendship
deep and strong
All the things in youth I dreamed
And waited
for, so long
My love is my safe haven and
I, am her
home port
We are the doors, the entrance to
Each others
impenetrable fort
It is the place we are ourselves,
Naked in
and out
Love is our religion, we
Have become
devout
Truth is our foundation, honest
View we
give with care
Who we are is our gift
What we
find, we always share
Life is an adventure coming
At us
lightning fast
Our eyes are on the future, having
Learned well from the past
To have our dreams fulfilled in life
Means taking on a risk
Living without fear, the unknown
We deign
not to resist
We’ll live through many dreams, some
Good and
some less so
To get to paradise itself,
through the rest, we all must go
In the end we all will learn
As into
life we delve
The greatest gift of love received
Is the
owning of ourselves
The greatest gift of love bestowed
Is the
lightening of our load
How to describe the feelings I get
When we do
things together
Like when we rode our bikes this morning
In a rainy
kind of weather
Fresh air blowing in my face
I pedaled
easy on
You were riding at my side
We talked
and time was gone
I felt as if I floated and
All I saw
did please
The absence of anxiety
And the
need to it appease
I never have in all my life
Felt so
finished so complete
You are a part the core of me
My outlook
is upbeat
A quiet merging of two souls
Our spirits
move and dance
Life seems a blessed gift to me
Our joining
did enhance
Somewhere deep below the surface
We have
come to know
The beauty in our lives is from
The joining
as we go
Are you the person that I see
Or the one
that makes me, me?
What I see is just transparent
A form to hold,
what inside must be
A container used to keep together
All I love
in form I know
A place beyond plain time and space
That takes
me where I want to go
You are the door to seeing me
To joy
undreamed of, free
You insulate, protect my soul
Soar my heart
to apogee
You are my breath, environment
My sun, my
stars, my dreams
You are essential to my life
No matter
how it seems
The you I see is just for focus
You
surround, envelope me
You carry me in safety, forward
You’re my
security
You give me faith to trust, in things
My eyes can
never see
You give me courage to attain
A place
that cannot be
Together we can make exist
A private
world complete
Undreamed of peace and happiness
Within our
world, replete
You are my youth returned to me
You have
banished all my fears
Together we will younger grow
No matter
passing years
All my needs are met
My life, it
is complete
My mind gets constant nourishment
Disease I
can defeat
The things I know expand
Quiet
strength is mine
An angel takes my hand
I live some
grand design
Whatever I am feeling
Though very
deep inside
Is known by my caretaker
Brings
comfort to my side
When hunger claws at me
Though day,
or in the night
A meal will come to be
More than
food it is delight
There’s the laying on of hands
Brings me
up into the light
The warmth another soul imparts
Makes the
world seem right
I have a special guardian
My fate is
in your charge
My strength is daily magnified
My joy, it
does grow large
I thank you now and evermore
For what
you give to me
I know not what may lie in store
With your
help new joy I’ll see
What I have done to earn this gift
Escapes my
every thought
I only know though past I sift
This new
life you have wrought
I have a partner to confide
My alter
ego, another’s pride
The quality of my today
A gift
unselfish, come my way
You write me in rhyme and occasional verse,
Singing my praises, but nothing is terse.
Nothing is rude, nothing is vulgar,
But plain it is written, no Helga or Olga.
You knew the challenge, is something I’d take,
To respond with some rhymes, for dignity’s sake.
So here I begin to write, lovely one,
Sit back and relax, I soon will be done.
Then read, read away my wandering tale,
Of a heart far away but never for sale.
When all the world seems strangely quiet
Pregnant
with hostility
When quiet isn’t calm or right
And not
tranquility
When vulnerable is how you feel
And demons
are unseen
Alone you are within your thoughts
Need help
on which to lean
When try you do to let in light
To clear
the air inside
And find you are a prisoner in
Places you
once did hide
You must reach out to one you love
And trust
the past as guide
Acceptance of the one you are
Gives the
key to come inside
The things that matter most to me
Are not
gold or steel
Like the hand that squeezes mine
That brings
loves caring feel
The things that I can’t do without
Are not in
boxes kept
Loves peace that keeps me warm at night
Or the
dreams with which I’ve slept
The things I surely fear to lose
Aren’t
prized by stores or banks
Like the glowing look in my love’s eyes
For which I
oft give thanks
The things the future holds in store
Are not of
great import
As long as I will have my love
At my side,
as my escort
And all the wealth I could amass
Would not
ever be
As precious as the things I have
That matter
most to me
Lately it has come to me
I’m not the
one I used to be
Subtle changes altering
The
perceptions senses bring
My heart now sings to different tunes
Then moved
me past so many moons
Perhaps it’s love that makes the difference
Or maybe
age, the change gives inference
I only know the world is different
Seen
through older eyes
Coincidence, that love has come as
Old ideas
meet their demise?
It is as if a tune was written
For an
instrument unknown
Being fashioned by my life
Of trees my
seeds had sown
It is as if I was but half
A duet yet
to be
The beauty of the harmony
Unborn in
she and me
But when at last I heard the sound
Of our two
souls together
I was transformed, irrevocably
In ways I
cannot measure
Reality is newly formed
The past is
far away
Old is dream, as new was then,
Prologue to
today
Half a world away and still we’re together
Your today is my yesterday,
But our tomorrow’s not a whether
Time is fractured, Space illusion,
You are my constant, lighthouse, infusion
The heavens do move, while the earth does its turns,
My love for you gently and continuously burns.
Cultures, language, customs blur,
On one thought, we will always concur.
It’s not technology that keeps us so close,
We’re two parts of one spirit, two petals, one rose.
Enfolded, entwined, kissed by the sun,
Surrounded by love, not heavy but fun.
I am newly born, yet history remains,
I am inside out, I can not explain.
We are together, like H, 2 and O,
Combined we are calm, a natural flow.
As I travel the world,
There are things that I miss,
Like the wonderful feel and taste of your kiss.
I am alone and yet I am not,
Your remembered breath on my neck is still hot.
I close my eyes and you’re instantly there.
Your presence engulfs me,
It is every where.
Soft and quiet you hold my hand,
Or kiss my brow, in a far distant land.
From a place deep inside me, you rise when I need,
To quiet the fears with advice that I heed.
Ageless and timeless our feelings do grow,
Making our love, something special to know.
O love of my life, live on in my soul,
Without you, I’ve learned, I’ll never be whole.
I am much more than thought, ever I’d be,
Your bright light inside me, helps me to see.
Partners forever our souls do agree,
No one did I love ever more Liz than thee.
My love pays me a compliment
Unparalleled
in my years
She says I am her safety and,
I’m moved
almost to tears
She says she ‘s safe enough to be
Her self,
with what I give
Responsibility great is mine
Help
another soul to live
On a street whose name deserts me
In a café
simple there
By the hotel Montparnasse
Many meals
with banter fair
We filled our cup with friendship in
A language
most unknown
Nourished heart and soul, with
The love of strangers shown
Wandered open markets choosing
Food our
eyes did see
Savored figs still warm from being,
Not long from the tree
Strolled along the Seine in
The shadows
and the sun
Watched the lovers, did the same
As we
melted into one
Met an angel in MontMart
Perched upon a roof
Left some francs,
got a kiss
From the
mime who played the spoof
Watched a pigeon sliding down
A hill too
steep to walk
For the tourists a funicular
From which
the sights to gawk
Days and nights of joy we carried
Homeward at
the end
Dinner with good friends we had
Tour
D’Argent at rivers bend
Gifts for others we collected
Packed for
journey home
For ourselves there were the memories
Of a Paris
we did roam
We can easily recall
All the
looks and laughs we shared
Feel the feelings now as then
Of our love
and how we cared
It only takes an instant for
One to take
the other
To a place we’ve been before
Whether
real or quite another
It matters not the things we have
Hanging on our walls
We’ll always have the Paris that
Our hearts
in love recalls
Reach out to me my troubled friend
Hold on to
love we’ve built
There is no problem we can’t share
Or cause
our love to wilt
There is no need for either, or
We’re all
encompassing
Together we’re more ever was
In love we
can take wing
Lost in you
Altered view
Body needs
Passion leads
Mind is absent
Thought is rent
All is feeling Senses
reeling
Now connected Joy
elected
Urgent flight Blind as night Flesh is thirsting Rockets bursting Satisfaction…
End of action
Recomposing
Dreamy dozing
Across the heavens, across the universe,
Two minds do play in thoughts and verse.
A word is turned, a challenge met,
One’s moon does rise, One’s sun does set.
Around the globe with the speed of light,
These two souls play tag at night.
Each running and searching, hoping to see,
A glimpse of the other, not yet to be.
Freed from their bodies these souls do rise,
To a place in the firmament, a place in the skies.
From on high the future they see,
O wonder of wonders, together, they’re free.
When I was just an innocent boy
I dreamed
of loving you
Faceless nameless thing of beauty
I loved
before the view
Of you and all the things you are
I would
come to know
I would be the greatest lover
The goal I
set to go
In time you came into my life
Your smile
enlivened me
It lit the sky and my heart too
I danced
with joy to see
But like first lovers everywhere
I found you
before myself
Devoted all my life to you
Left my
soul upon the shelf
And when came time for us to part
As
inevitably we knew
We both were less in some respects
Rebuild,
the job to do
We weren’t bad or mean in purpose
We didn’t
intend to hurt
We simply didn’t know ourselves
Or how our
needs assert
We went as far as we could go
We thought
that love had failed
But love is pure a healing light
Against
extinction we had railed
Locked in struggle day and night
Win or
lose, not joined
Frantic desperate hunger reigned
Loneliness,
exchange we coined
And in the end two valiant souls
Captured by
loves gleam
Came to know the emptiness
Of life
without their dream
Searing heat you bring to me
Fire you
cannot tame
Plunging deep primordial being
My passions
to inflame
Space explodes, time reforms
I am but
air and light
Shorn of all my earthly weight
My heart
and soul take flight
I see you also without age
Lost in
your own birth
Together we have found our place
Of truth,
and know love’s worth
Saturday, November 07, 1998, In celebration of your birth,
without which I would be eternally alone.
Me
Each new morn as I awaken
And see
your lovely face
Of all that I have left behind
I’ve no
regrets, no trace
To see the sun in all its splendor
Lighting up
the sky
Share the joys of life with you
As in your
arms I lie
You are my dreams embodied, my
Formless
needs expressed
You bring to me completeness full
Free the
parts repressed
Teach me how to fly again
Make of me
a part
Of you and you a part of me,
To give new
life a start
Life as it was meant to be
Fulfilling,
joyous, free
Unseeing eyes taught to know
By love
bestowed on me
Basic, simple, trusting, sure
Love
engulfs us two
Naturally we flow, in step
Security,
known by few
Before you were a part of me
I lived
another’s life
You freed the me that lived inside
Became my
partner, wife
Re-invented my life’s view
Took away
the years
Returned to me expectant hope
Calmed my
inner fears
I struggle to express my love
To thank
you for your gifts
To give to you as I’ve received
Though many
words I sift
Perhaps I’ll borrow words of yours
Convey it
crystal clear
“I am weightless, I am light”
Whenever
you are near
I want for nothing, heart is full
With you
I’m unrestrained
With strength that grew from love with you
My life I
have regained
I’ve found in you my paradise
The future
of my youth
Rejoice in life with you today
And ever
more, in truth
Her hair was dark, smile inviting
Tease and
play she did
Agenda deep inside her mind
She very
carefully hid
She held herself a perfect ten
In matters
purely sensual
Aggressively pursued my heart
Thinking
marriage was eventual
She counted all the ways she followed
As best,
the only road
And often counted me as lacking
Trying
vainly me to goad
I tried with all my heart to please
Revamped to
compromise
But over time my difficulty
Impossible
to disguise
I did what every lover does
Rethink
adapt soul search
But we did not go forward smoothly
Our
relationship did lurch
High and low, Stop and start
Make
changes to my being
Measure every compromise
Against the
larger, seeing
That each alone is not so bad
Not
difficult to endure
But all together a heavy weight
Too heavy
to ensure
That I could carry on forever
And lead a
joyous life
Love shouldn’t need a rest, relief
Or get from
lover, strife
Those little things made up our lives
Like bricks
upon a path
Eventually they built for us
The fabric
of our wrath
That poisoned all the good we had
Dismembered
our connection
Led her to step back from me
Reevaluate
her election
But once relieved of all that weight
My heart
was light, surprise
Someone else would better do
I soon came
to surmise
In your eyes I see forever
Loneliness has gone away
You bring to me a world of wonder
Remove the fears of yesterday
My heart beats strong within my chest
Adventure calls my name
Together life will glory bring
As we make it, a loving game