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

Sunday, July 10, 2011

I will live these words

I will live these words I've written here
each and everyday each and every year
from the lines inked on the page
will come the script for my  life's stage
I will love more and cherish every moment
Try harder to do the little things and not forget
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

The beach brings it out.

The beach brings it out in me
the feelings of love run free
the sun the sand the surf and tide
leave no place for my feeling to hide

So forgive me if I touch too much
or stand too close and stare
it is all I can do when the night is such
and filled with summer air.
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Friday, July 8, 2011

The fits

Love is a size too small umbrella
bringing strangers under and together
Love is a size too large sweater
bring comfort to both snuggler and wearer
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Love offers

Love offers a firm foundation
Love offers a soul vacation
Love offers a stronger will
Love offers wheat to mill
Love offers a hand to hold
Love offers time to grow old
Love offers a safe space
Love offers a willing chase
Love offers a soft falling
Love offers a sacred calling
Love offer you to me
I accepted forever and completely
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

A brighter future

Its hard work
living a simple life
but you make it easy

The toil and strain
and daily strife
are lightened when your with me

I never knew a joyful tear
until the day we kissed
you took away all my fear
fulfilled my every wish

Life with you is a blessing
each day a new adventure
the pain of past is lessening
as I looked to a brighter future
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mexican Moonlight

On a clear warm night in June

I place you in the light of the Mexican moon

Drapped in silver robes and beams

I see you. My hope, my fantasy, my dreams


Standing there

Almost bear

I stop to stare

As the summer air

Stirs my heart.


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Monday, July 4, 2011

lighting up the world tonight

Let our love be this night

A shining glorious light

For all the world to see

That you belong to me


Let the rhythm of the stars

Mimic that of ours

Shining and shooting bright

Lighting up the world tonight


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