Everyday Love

Everyday Love: The Plan

About 2 weeks after my marriage to Jill, I left her the first of what I now call, "everyday love notes". It read simply, "Sleep on my queen and when you dream, dream me to be your king." 19 and half years, and several hundred notes later, I still find a new reason everyday to fall in love with her and I am still searching for the right words to express it.

So for the next year I am writing an "everyday love note" everyday. Honest expression of a man's love for his wife and how daily that love looks, lives and lasts.

All of these I will post here , and all of these I will write and leave for Jill.

Year in Review

I have learned a lot over the past year while trying to write each of these poems on a daily basis. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be but neither is love. There are good poems, great poems and poems that still need work...just like boening in love, there are good days, great days and days that I could have put some more work into. And even though every line is true...just like true love, sometimes it is stretch or hope that gets you there.

I hope there has been something the eveyone can relate to and draw from...I don't think my experience is too far removed when you really think about why you love the one you do. Thanks for reading and loving. Most of all, thanks to Jill, for being the women who inspired this project and daily gives me reasons to love her. I love you.

Dan

Monday, February 7, 2011

You fill my mind

You fill my mind
thoughts in rhyme
spill out in ink
as I think
of you
The page fills up
as my cup
overflows
from head to toe

Sunday, February 6, 2011

The Perfect Kiss

eternal truth
secret of youth
whispered hushed
cause to blush
gentle hand
valiant stand
river's course
guiding force
Love is all this
wrapped into the perfect kiss

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Giving love a chance

Giving love a chance
to win your heart
means letting romance
have a head start

What can be sealed
with a lover's kiss
is often revealed
only when missed

My best foot in my mouth
is how I prefer to stand
facing north but feeling south
the shadow of my hand

Friday, February 4, 2011

Face to Face

Caught up in your love
I can not speak or think
enjoying the moment of
the attraction as you wink

Call me over to your side
and I will keep the pace
matching you with every stride
staying close and face to face

Thursday, February 3, 2011

The light by which we walk

Love is the light by which we walk
hand and hand as husband and wife
The common language we choose to talk
to share this experience called life.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Make you my life

I try in vain to explain
what it is between us
there are no rhymes and never enough time
to really say how I feel

I try every day to show and say
what I know is true inside
even in this I tend to miss
falling short of real

Love me for my efforts, as I continue to court
you as my blushing wife
Know that I am trying, inside dying
to make you my life

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

My sure foundation

You make the world seem small
when it is knocking on my door
you make me feel 10 feet tall
like I can give a little more

It is for you I try my best
in everything I do and say
with you I forget the rest
look forward to a brighter day

Stay then near my side
never leave me lone
be thou my ever bride
my sure foundation of stone.