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

Saturday, January 1, 2011

The shadow of your love

Your love is my protection
from a world that does not care
Your love is my safe place
too lock away my share

Your love is my direction
always leading me here
Your love is my inner space
a whisper in my ear

Your love is my soul's quest
the end to all my means
Your love is my simple verse
sung to please my queen

Your love is what I love best
my masterpiece in life
Your love my waiting herse
to remove me from this strife

As the sun beats down from high above
I am safe and sheltered in the shadow of your love
Posted by dan knudson at 10:56 PM

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