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

Thursday, September 2, 2010

My Compass

You are my my northern star
a shinning guiding light
Always placed a bit too far
but never out of sight

You are my southern charm
with style and grace abounding
Not just the belle but the alarm
in my head and all around me

You are my wild wild west
an untamed and natural beauty
vast and hotter then the rest
bringing me to my knees

You are my eastern shore
and endless sunrise beach
making me want you ever more
and just within my reach

I see you in every direction
I love you all the time
I know you to perfection
I want to make you mine
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