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HERE’S TO CRAZINESS

A TREASURE

BALANCE

ONE LONG CONVERSATION

LOVE IS…

SAFE HARBOR

DREAM US REAL

THE SCENT OF YOU

A LINE I CAN’T CROSS

THE CLIFF

DAY BY DAY

THE SOUNDS OF LONELY

ANTICIPATION

THE MUSIC OF THE DAY

TIME

FAR FROM SIGHT

MY BUDDY

TOMORROW

THERE IS A CORD

WITHOUT THE HELP OF SIGHT

 

 

 

HERE’S TO CRAZINESS

 

Here’s to the craziness in our lives

            I certainly hope it stays

It helps maintain our sanity

            Fear of boredom it allays

 

Youth it keeps in our perspective

            As we do laugh at us

Still we are responsible

            To needs without a fuss

           

Tomorrow is a great unknown

            As today we bid adieu

But welcome we with childish glee

            Each adventure coming new

 

Act our age we cannot do

            We’re having too much fun

Enjoying firsts of every kind

            Too bizarre to try are none

 

As long as we have faith in each

            Other to be true

To principles we have set to live

            No experience will we rue

 

The fun is not in what we do

So much as that we share

The essence shown of who we are

            Hides nothing souls are bare

 

The result of all this craziness

            Is laughter loud and clear

And love between two kindred souls

            Unafraid their joy to wear

 

 

 

A TREASURE

 

I have read,

The story of

One’s life is written

In their head

 

A story no one

Ever knows

From inside out

It never goes

 

But serves to keep

Contact asleep

And owner lonely deep

 

But if perchance

Some words might dance

Into another’s mind

 

Perhaps they’ll find

A kindred soul

Who’ll join to make them whole

 

The willingness to share

A story that might scare

To shine a light

That gives insight

And leaves no place to hide at night

 

Can bring a joy

Two souls alloy

Make life bright

Give love its flight

And make one feel that all is right

 

To the extent

That story’s lent

To give another

Access to cover

Determines how

We each endow

Ourselves, another’s love somehow

 

The giving of

Ourselves to love

Sharing secrets buried long

To another might seem wrong

But in the giving trust will bloom

Results of which you can’t assume

Joy before you then will loom

 

To take unto

Yourself the best

Involves for you this simple test

To let another see the real

You inside and come to feel

Your worth is great by their own measure

And find for them, you are a treasure

 

 

 

BALANCE

 

Birds are singing, Sun is shining

            Grass is emerald green

Palms are swaying, flowers blooming

            Few people to be seen

 

Sunday morning gentle, quiet

            A time to contemplate

Families mostly spending time

            Each other to relate

 

These are times I crave a hug

            Desire my love’s embrace

Close my eyes feel her kiss

            Or breath upon my face

 

I am upon the outside of

            A world I’d be within

Stand alone in isolation

            As around this globe does spin

 

Luckier than most I am

            To know a love so great

Life does balance all our gifts

            Faith I’ll not forsake

 

In what I have and where I’m going

            I’ve no reason to complain

Give thanks I will for what I’ve got

            Even flowers need the rain

 

 

 

ONE LONG CONVERSATION

 

Fingers trace a shoulder’s shape

            Lips taste an ear

Loving words exchanges make

            Laughter brings a tear

 

Walks together lift them higher

            Experience each the other

Boundless wonders of the world

            Fascinate, discover

 

Hands are held because they’re close

            Shoulders touch, …event 

Strides coordinate by choice

Together, …joy is lent

 

Words caress each other’s souls

            If bodies cannot meet

Memories do what words cannot

            Passion keeps its heat

 

Favors done for one another

            Courtesy for sure

Vocabulary used is loves

            Purpose clear and pure

 

That contact always carry in it

            Love’s essence there

Making love is how they live

            Defining moments rare

 

Not a sometimes needful thing

            But every breath they take

Communicate in every way

            Endless bonds they make

 

Passions rise and passions fall

            Sometimes sexually

Woven in with all they do

            Like nature, form is free

 

Ebb and flow is natures way

            Mix, immerse, invent

All designed to integrate

            In life love’s passion spent

 

Subtle is what love’s about

            Permeates the soul

Exists in every element

            Of life it is the whole

 

Love is one long conversation

            Form and cadence vary

Choices made matter not

            If love their meanings carry

 

 

 

LOVE IS…

 

Love is freedom

            Simple and clear

Confidence bold

            A lack of fear

 

Love is dreams

            Of two not one

A future expected

            As bright the sun.

 

 

 

SAFE HARBOR

 

In the arms of my love

            The world is far away

Enveloped by her presence

There only is today

 

Yesterday, a filmy dream

            Tomorrow waits its turn

I am as if suspended

            Time stops as my heart burns

 

Fear is non existent as

Her love enfolds my soul

She is within as she surrounds

            Draw her in, my only goal

 

With every breath her love does fill

            My sense intoxicate

Light my head, full my heart

            For more I cannot wait

 

With urgency I try to merge

            My heart and soul with hers

Transcend the flesh that borders us

            Be something never was

 

I am become more than me

            As she and I are we

Respond the same if we are called

            As one named me, or thee

 

 

 

 

 

DREAM US REAL

 

Time, space, connection sought

            What is real? what is thought?

Do you exist? Are you a dream?

            I did touch you, it would seem

 

The pain I feel without you near

            Is real enough, I know that clear

If you’re made up, in my head

            Then clearly all my senses fled

 

Dream I must myself unreal

            So in your mind I can steal

Together we will find a way

            Dissolve the space so we can play

 

Then we can dream ourselves quite real

            Know the joy to actually feel

Matter not if we exist

            Reality is, thought in gist

           

 

 

THE SCENT OF YOU

 

The scent of you is in my mind

            As real as if you’re here

My face I bury deep your chest

            In dream I hold you near

 

Never far from me are you

            As time does pass along

The visions and the feelings stay

            Embedded bright and strong

 

The surface of my skin does yearn

            To be as one with yours

To feel your warmth so close to me

            To feel my passion course

 

To know your love is mine as well

            As we each the other lead

To places never seen by one

            In fusion two succeed

 

To find a higher plain and know

A glory born brand new

Scale the heights of ecstasy

            Hold hands, enjoy the view

 

You are the source of my delight

            You lift me to the clouds

The taste of you pervades my thoughts

            From my mind all else it crowds

 

We’ll be together soon in flesh

            Though minds do touch right now

Love is such a wondrous thing

            Breathes life, I know not how

 

 

A LINE I CAN’T CROSS

 

Lying on my bed

All alone in the night

Searching thorough my memory

            For feelings and the sight

Of smiles that played on your sweet face

            As I learned to know you right

I cannot pierce the feeling of

Alone though try I might

 

I replay each move and thought

            Collected from before

Try to lose myself in them

            Past passion to explore

But memory’s not warm enough

            Though times I get a rush

There is no substitute for you

            Mental image lacks too much

 

No matter how close I get

            To feeling you are here

You vanish in an instant as

            I reach to pull you near

 

As long as you are kept within

            The boundaries of my mind

I can keep you close enough

            Some comfort I can find

 

But if I try to bridge the gap

            Embrace my minds design

The worlds of real and not, collide

            Leave emptiness behind

 

Suffice it must for me to know

            We’ll be together soon

Though I keep trying for your touch

            While not your image ruin

 

There is a line that I can’t cross

            I haven’t learned the way

But every day our love grows stronger

            Perhaps I will someday

 

 

 

THE CLIFF

 

Azure sky cobalt sea

            Golden white the sands

Surrounded by this tranquil scene

            Introspection it commands

 

The past dissolves into a mist

            As history shrinks to nil

A thousand thoughts do race around

            From my mind they want to spill

 

Where have I been? where do I go?

            What will become of me?

I’m eager to begin anew

            A life I cannot see

 

Children grown have spread their wings

            From the nest they have flown

Into a life of their own making

            To reap what they have sown

 

The surf does crash, it speaks to me

            Time has no meaning here

I feel I am eternal but

            The meaning’s not yet clear

 

High upon this cliff I sit

            Absorb the warming sun

Observe my life from somewhere else

            Where the sands of time don’t run

 

Life’s been good there is no doubt

            Of that I can attest

My children are a source of pride

            The best of me invest

 

I am the product of my loves

            And those who have loved me

The lord has smiled upon my soul

            Having brought the best, I see

 

Something deep within me stirs

            I know not what it is

But all that I have been before

            Is prelude, ‘cept for Liz

 

Two souls have joined to form one new

            A magnificent creation

A blackboard clean on which we’ll write

            Our story of elation

 

The wind is blowing in my hair

            As I gaze upon the sea

Mist enshrouded boats glide past

            In silent dignity

 

A squirrel digs for food about

            A yard or two from me

We coexist in harmony

            As nature meant to be

 

The beauty of the world we see

            Is from the inside out

If love I hold within my heart

I’ll never be without

 

So come on life bring on the next

            Whatever it will be

I glory in the newness

            I’m reborn and I am free

 

As good as life has been ‘till now

            The future will fulfill

All the dreams I’ve yet to dream

            ‘Till my heart is wont to spill

 

I have no trepidation as

I’m standing here on high

Looking down as birds are making

Circles in the sky

 

I feel I see forever though

My eyes do not perceive

More than any other mortal

            Yet my heart knows more than sees

 

If life should cease tomorrow

            I have lived more than my years

While standing on this breezy cliff

            Shedding all my fears

 

I am anxious to begin this new

            Period of my life

Coupled hand in hand with love

            That rids my soul of strife

 

Tomorrow is another day

            It surely will be fine

The things I need for life I’ve learned

            Are already mine.

 

 

 

DAY BY DAY

 

Love exists not in a vacuum

            We must will it come to be

If we think that it is here

            It surely is, for we

 

But even if for just one instant

            Faith is interrupted

Doubt will eat away the fabric

            Pureness be corrupted

 

Love is like the house we live in

            Keeps us warm, secure

But we must work to keep it sturdy

            Not let problems to mature

 

Keep the weeds of our neglect

            From choking out the light

Be prepared this place defend

            With every ounce of might

 

Fill the gardens of our hearts

            With the flowers of our care

Make the shelter of our love

            A place restorative, rare

 

Open every shutter, let

            Fresh air flow right in

Glory in the sharing, by

            Not hiding we both win

 

Give to each, all we are

            Building day by day

Soon enough invincible

            We two become this way

 

Weather every storm with knowing

            The house we built will stand

The bricks, unfailing love of past

            The mortar, faith’s command

 

The sun will shine tomorrow

            Should darkness come today

For us this is a given

            Daily care makes our love stay

 

 

 

THE SOUNDS OF LONELY

 

The rooms are empty, not a soul is here

            Only I to fill the space

Silence hangs expectantly

            My other thoughts erase

The silence isn’t quiet as

Noises all around

Never noticed, now intrude

            Somehow alive in sound

Refrigerator motor whirs

            Ice cubes dropping down

Heat comes on, hot air blows

            I hear from all around

Somewhere a door is closing tight

            A motorcycle blares 

An auto passes in the night

            Footsteps on the stairs

Suddenly I am aware

            The silence is demanding

My mind is stretching far and wide

            My consciousness expanding

Frantically I search for sounds

            I know what I must do

If not found my thoughts will turn

            Inward wanting you

I am adrift, out in space

            The noises are receding

Pictures of you everywhere

            The past, my eyes are reading

Movies of what we have done

            Blend and merge and twist

Memories of your touch and feel

            And places I have kissed

You’re almost real if I try hard

            Then reality sets in

Reaching for your fingers, I’m

Left wanting and chagrined

Silence is my friend at first

            Distracts me from my thought         

Then aching soundless cry it is

            In my longings I am caught

 

 

 

ANTICIPATION

 

Your voice is clear you seem to be

            Whispering in my ear

It’s just the technology that

            Makes you seem so near

 

The closer that you seem to be

            The worse it is for me

I close my eyes and I can see

            But feel is not to be

 

I’m grateful for your voice of course

            But oh how I do ache

To hold you in my arms again

            To see you when I wake      

 

The time to meet is coming soon

            A little over a week

Every day eternity

            Your touch I urgently seek

 

But when we meet the void will fill

            In an instant when we touch

And I will not be able to

            Recall the ache as such

 

I’ll clutch you tight and drink you in

            Intoxicate my brain

The joy of reconnecting will

            Erase all trace of pain

           

 

 

 

THE MUSIC OF THE DAY

 

Quite devoid of any plan

The day begins as our eyes scan

Each other in the morning light

Bringing both of us delight

 

Smiles and tenderness abound

In the dawn without a sound

Gentle kisses are the way

We start the music of the day

 

Notes created as we flow

Together in a motion slow

All the rest is loving dance

To the rhythm of romance

 

All the day we ebb and flow

What we do, where we go

All is fodder for our game

Mind and soul we entertain

 

A symphony we have become

Improvised, each moments sum

Two musicians jamming free

Write eternal memory

 

On and on we are to play

Ready for the futures way

Along a path we’ve yet to know

Eager to together go

 

 

 

TIME

 

 

Seems forever I’ve been gone

Though just a month I’ve stayed

Missing warmth I used to hold

And the wondrous ways we played

 

The world is somehow less than real

When you’re not here to share

The colors slightly less than bright

The weather less than fair

 

Your presence calms the storms of life

You save me with your smile

All my darkness quickly passes

You’re my armor all the while

 

Though time may drag when you’re not here

And we’re suspended then

It stops completely, when you’re near

Past and future blend

 

Like a clearing in the fog

That moves about at will

We drift without time passing

Each drinking in our fill

 

We each are times reality

The others clock, defeat

We only age when were apart

Youth returning when we meet

 

 

 

FAR FROM SIGHT

 

Keep my mind going all the time

            So up the walls I don’t climb

My love and I are far apart

            It hurts me deeply in my heart

 

My attention occupied

            The best solution I have tried

Don’t leave a space for thought creep in

            Or loneliness will surely win

 

So writing poetry is what I do

            Endlessly, not just a few

It serves a double purpose here

            Honing skill, keeps my love near

 

And if perchance you are alone

            Waiting for your love to phone

I know exactly how you feel

            Grateful for the time you steal

 

Every instant forever is

            Shared memory, remembered bliss

If you’re love is far from sight

            Come with me, we’ll share the plight

 

Of love displaced, cut in two

            Agony if love be true

I’ll conjure up the words we need

            To keep alive the precious seed

 

To carry us to that new day

            When each, with lover, always stay

           

 

 

MY BUDDY

 

If I should want to climb a tree

            Or perhaps a mountain top

Who would I choose to take with me?

            Whose company would I opt?

 

Whose presence helps to magnify

            Each new experience?

Who would help to raise me up?

            With valued common sense?

 

Who shares with me all my fears

            And all my goals extreme

The silly things I’d like to do

            The stuff that fills my dreams?

 

Who gives to me a place to hide

            When life is testing hard?

Rejuvenates and sends me out

            With new and strengthened guard?

 

Who stands beside me in the fray

            Shoulder touching mine?

Enjoys the camaraderie

            Grown on the firing line?

 

Who would I trust with all I own

            With life and limb and soul

To play with on the path of life

            To see what will unfold?

 

My friend, my love, my partner,

            The one that gives me joy

The one that is my buddy

            Alter ego to this boy

 

That lives within at any age

            No matter what I do

Though many are my total years

            My buddy makes them few

 

Together we are children being

            Open to the new

In laughter and in love we go

            With a friendship tested true.

 

 

 

TOMORROW

 

When I lay me down to sleep

            At the closing of my day

My fondest wish is that my dreams

            Will be of us at play

 

That sun will shine throughout my night

            Illuminate, remind

Awaken all the feelings, stored

            Away, that I can find

 

That you will keep me company

            As long as dark does last

So I can face tomorrow, when

I wake up from the past

 

 

 

THERE IS A CORD

 

Over mountains through the clouds

            Across the many miles

There is a cord connecting us

            It is what brings the smiles

 

Invisibly, it climbs and turns

stretches twists and finds

Each of us at work or play

            It is the tie that binds

 

Sometimes it is the telephone

            Sometimes it is the fax

Sometimes it is a funny card

            Filled with blue wisecracks

 

Sometimes it is a message left

            With humor and with grace

Sometimes it is a thought of need

            That travels fast through space

 

Sometimes it is a dream so real

            Our hearts increase in beat

Sometimes it is our passion rising

            Giving us more heat

 

But always it’s the knowledge that

            Whatever path we take

No separation could convince

            Each the other to forsake

 

 

 

           

WITHOUT THE HELP OF SIGHT

 

Elizabeth Lee Isaacson

            It has a pleasant sound

I guess it means for quite a while

            You’re going to be around

 

At least you have a piece of paper

            To prove that we have wed

I’m sure it doesn’t help you sleep

            When I’m not there in bed

 

And all those people, don’t believe

            A husband you have taken

Are joined by you, despite the note

            When alone, you do awaken

 

There are no clothes of mine to see

            No razor, brush or comb

Not the least signal that

            I’m ever coming home

 

No meals to make, no shirt to wear

            The scent of me not there

Perhaps it’s really all a dream

            That vanished in thin air

 

But then again you have the papers

            Poem after poem

And clothes I bought that you do wear

            No matter where you roam

 

And feelings rising in your breast

            Too real to be made up

Pictures showing you and me,

            Remembered hands that cup

 

And always as the time does pass

            We shortly are together

But heavy is the heart of us

            As the spaces we do weather

 

So every night I write some words

            Your morning to make bright

Helps us each to see the other

            Without the help of sight