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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Over time braided together

Like braided string
each one brings
dreams an hope
to the marriage rope

Woven over time
as each serve in kind
the rope grows long
beautiful and strong

If left to it's own

the trap has sown
a snare on the ground
is likely to be found

If put it ill use
this rope is a noose
strung on a lover's gallows
where feeling remain shallow

Use this rope to climb
from dark and deep designs
Use this rope pull
all the love you can lasso

This rope is meant to tie
and bind us forever
Made of our hopes and dreams

over time braided together.


 

You are as this season

On a summer day
the sunshine louds
and the air sways
long and proud

The creek calls
children answer
lovers rise and fall
mimic the flowered dancer

Today was such a day
you are as this season
beckoning me to play
giving hope a reason.

Each day you pull me through

I have little more to say
as this day closes swiftly
One more time in one more way
maybe then you'll believe me

You are something exceptional
a different type, spectacular
you exceed the potential
of all human vernacular

Breadth and depth are small measures
of all you are to me
the world and all its treasures
are but a tenth of thee

You enhance the life we live
by simply being you
Each day you give and give
each day you pull me through