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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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