Year in review

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 being in love, there are good days, great days and days that I could have put some more work into. Even though every line is true...just like true love, sometimes it is a  stretch or hope that gets you there.

I hope there has been something that 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

Love and Rapture

My love for you will never end
even though these rhymes may ceased
stronger than it's ever been
loving feelings over time increased

In all my attempts to catch it
I fall short of the mark
nothing I can say will match it
Love is a fire, words are a spark

It now falls on me to live a life
that poets will try to capture
may I being deserving of a wife
who fills me with love and rapture.

Never again so distant

My heart beats slows down
the further away I am from you
My body cold and numb
blood thickens like glue

But as time and space collapse
and bring us near once more
my heart begins again to race
allowing my spirit to soar

Sew my heart to yours
with twine so strong
never again so distant
never again so long

every thought has you in it

I try to think of you last
before I close my eyes to sleep
hoping my dreams will cast
memories my mind can keep

I try to think of you before I wake
before the world I face
for I know that one thing it cannot take
thoughts of you are never erased

I think if you in between
every over second
some thoughts are dirty most are clean
but each one has you in it.

The Strength of our voices

loves light is reflected
in our daily choices
it can be projected
with the strength of our voices

Comfortable, safe and warm

If home is where your heart is
then my home is with you
even apart we're never parted
our perfect love is never through

My favorite place is your sweet embrace
my shelter from the storm
The world can go about its race
I am comfortable, safe and warm

Words now written by my hand
are line now drawn in the sand
as I cross each one by one
I see more I could have done

I could have held you longer
could have loved you stronger
Could have whispered sweeter
made the bed a little neater

I see perfection in the sunrise
and set our course to chase it
a reflection mirrored in your eyes
is what I try to keep pace with