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

Saturday, May 7, 2011

It's Saturday.

The sunshine break through the clouds
to find us still in bed
it Saturday and our plans allow
to place sleeping in working stead

As we linger longer in our dreams
this rest renews our souls
love is brought on sun beams
and fills the work week holes

Friday, May 6, 2011

To defend and protect

Our love is universal

A lifetime dress reversal

In that day when we rise above

We will already have known perfect love


Our love is elemental

Basic nature and consequential

It is as simple as cause and effect

A primal need to defend and protect.


Thursday, May 5, 2011

This empty Vast

Receive me into your light
I cannot last another night
and this days falls fast

Let thy arm to me extend
collect my soul into your bend
hurry my love I may not last

Open your hand and let mine in
keep me safe in the hallow therein
how quickly these shadows cast

Create from our love a tower high
where both of us can safely hide
Fill thou this empty vast

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Reality Weighs

You have given my heart wings to fly
while grounding my soul to a simple way
You have lifted my spirit beyond the sky
and reminded me how much reality can weigh

Push me, pull me just take me with you
stretch me, test me just love me through

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

To live in the sunshine

To live in the sunshine
which surrounds you
be able to spend my time
I'm so happy I found you

You fill my heart with love
my life with sweet memories
You were sent to me from above
my firery half with angel's wings

Monday, May 2, 2011

In comfort sure

Let us speak in love today
allowing actions alone to say
that hearts find rest in service pure
love lives here in comfort sure

Let us lay in trust tonight
between us none but the moonlight
Sharing all we have and more
trust lives here in comfort sure

Lets us wake with joy to find
a bond far richer and sublime
in this love we have the cure
joy lives here in comfort sure

Let us pray in faith this hour
our love ascending heaven's tower
Sealed on earth in heaven secure
faith lives here in comfort sure

Sunday, May 1, 2011

I yearn

When you whisper in my ear
 I get the message loud and clear.
 I may not hear your every word
 But I know what your saying, rest assured.

What is shared in soft hushed tone
 Is understood by us alone
 Echoes sounding throughout my mind
 Bounce off memories of a better time.

Lean in and softly say my name
 Then turn and I will do the same.
 The breath it takes I will return
 For this time I ever yearn