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

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A Family Drive

Love is what brings us together
but music makes it fun
as we drive we sing along
you and me and everyone
Taking trips is what we do
and often we have to drive
so we just crank the tunes
and sing to feel alive
Harmony is in our hearts
even if we sing off key
this is where our family starts
our kids and you and me.

Monday, June 6, 2011

A no name little town

I can love you anywhere
but I prefer a warmer climate
a secluded beach in the tropics
where we can be in private

Just the sun and the sand
and a palm tree for shade
our buns nice and tan
and some pink lemonade

Lets head down south
where the pace slows down
find ourselves in
a no name little town

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Discover our best

Let's leave this place 
for just a while
find a sunnier space
learn how to smile

Leave the world
and care behind
become the boy and girl
from a simpler time

Pack your sweet talk
and I'll grab the rest
on the beach we'll walk
and discover our best

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Let be be there for you

Let me be there for you today
in every thing and every way
make use of the man I am
to move ahead your master plan

Let me be there for you tomorrow
in all the joy and all the sorrow
a shoulder for you to lean on
a ear to lay your dream upon

Let me be there for you always
present as moon glow and sun rays
constant as the march of time
predictable as this last rhyme

Friday, June 3, 2011

The higher raod

Let the world go for a while
and take my outstretched hand
I will carry you beyond the mile
through the mountains over sand

Together we can bear the weight
the world has put upon our backs
evenly yoked and standing straight
as one we gather what's fallen slack

I will not go without you near
I will never leave you alone
In your presence I have no fear
my faith is hardened to a stone

I only ask that you'll let me
share your heavy load
and as we walk please trust me
I'll find the higher road






Thursday, June 2, 2011

Your love makes me glad

Your love lingers on my lips
as I swallow my pride
and realize all to often
I have nothing left to hide

Your love last beyond the light
as I drift off to sleep
my dream wrapped tightly
in your mansion's keep

Your love listens to my longing
as I plead my case out loud
a simple one with rhyming words
spoken above the crowd

Your love leads me lightly
as we walk hand in hand
I will help you find your way
your wish is my command

Your love leaves me laughing
as I recall the times we've had
I look forward to countless more
Your loves makes me glad.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Falling in love is the win

We hold to the hope
that love is all we need
and then fasten the rope
to free fall at speed

We cling to the courage
that caused us to leap
from love's ledge
into love's deep

Let go on three
let this love take us in
You and I to us and we
falling in love is the win