Time has changed me, I now know that you have changed as well.
And I would do what you would now say.
A second chance from you I would ask as things with you have changed as well.
As I once gave them fish so we were blessed to be there for,
my love for you.
Because you are still strong like then your body's smell I long to taste now covered in the scent of time, rosemary yes and thyme.
Time has changed you to.
As for what I want from you,
was love a love as strong as love could be a simple man is what I am, I'm shy yet strong for you please understand.
To you I plead yet promise to, to be the man I'd help you be, the best friend that I once then, her birthday love is coming soon.
And time has changed me to.
You've lived half a century, girl,
would you believe it?
No doubt life seems like a whirl
or do you feel you're in deep sh**?
Fifty summers, fifty winters,
over half spent with Lenny--
just proves there's no free dinners
cause livin' with me is not all glee!
You have awakened to fifty springs,
seen fifty times the leaves fall--
cared little for baskets of gold rings
or a big house with a grand hall,
because long ago you caught my heart
though some say that wasn't too smart....
"Out catching fish ~
make a wish our
next dish is trout"
Written 26 Nov 2020
A SONNET TO MY WIFE
Do you ever wonder why I do
The little things I do for you
It's because I love you, with a love that's true
A love no other can give to you
It's to keep a smile upon your face
And assure you no one can take your place
I love the way you wear your hair
The way you hold me whenever I'm there
I love the way you kiss my lips
The tender touch of your fingertips
So just remember, as you face each day
My love for you will always stay
Pure, unceasing – love without end
You're more than a lover – you're my best friend
4 December 2019
For the contest, Love Me Like You Mean It,
sponsored by Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Diane,
What you know about physics and calculus wouldn't fill a thimble.
What you know about love and goodness overflows my heart,
Every day.
I love you,
D.
(Written about 2005, as a sonnet, but I cannot recall why I used 13 rather than 14 syllables per line. Maybe Petrachan? Forgive me if it fails the sonnet test.)
For My Wife and Daughters: STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
eighty percent water in me wants unity here
oscillating in bones, gurgling words in my bloodstream,
verging on vigorous waterways, my own river
converging dreams, I take our daughters to park and stream
few, if any, waterfowl and fauna peek at us now
tiny tributaries of separation bring dirt
now, even in spring, the waters are still running low
no flowers or flora frolic between sky and earth
we inhabit deltas of exuberance, then the freeze …
shallows of calm showed my girls sunfish, pebbles galore
abounding like diamonds in my land of jealousies
now, as streams in the world begin to slow, run shallow
I am one in the God of all, born of Africa
my daughters’ bloodstreams murmur songs of America
I go to my wife
The jaws of poverty
Rats eat the corpse
The maluti mountains order
Senqu river to close it's eyes
A Letter to my Wife, Dear Joey
By Joeysguy
I lived with my mother for part of my life
Then I married and you became my wife
We both repeated the words I do
My promise to always love you
With the wedding band and saying I Do
My heart and soul I gave to you
On the finger of your left hand
You wore a white gold band
I would trade all my future days
For just one more chance of our yesterdays
My love now for you feels like so much more
I’m sorry I didn’t know it before
Looking at your pictures your beautiful face
All those loving words that I misplaced
For many years I knew what life was to be
Now I don’t, since its only me
I’m getting older and have a fear
That I may forget for whom I care
Our 51st anniversary is coming soon
Look for a note inside the balloon
I loved you then, I love you now, I’ll love you tomorrow
I write this with tears and sorrow
Till the end of days
With Love always
Never would I have dreamed of this
Inconceivable life we have built together
Not by any stretch of the imagination
Even through the difficult times, we held fast
You have blessed my life with beauty
E...n with his curiosity and laughter
A...n with his brilliant mind and creativity
Reveals the wonderful union of you and me.
So blessed am I, because of you.
A Quatret To My Wife
When hell has frozen over,
And Hades’s dogs sleep quiet,
Love’s plant the blessed clover,
Will bloom a mossy riot
Love’s urgent thrust’s a miser,
Brings lovers’ secret moan,
But woman’s touch, a riser,
Tis butter on a scone
And with this love I worship,
The path on which we walk,
Our voyage is such a fair ship,
Does vex all others’ talk
Written for contest 16/7/15
She wore kindness, forgiveness and the romance crown,
Loved her when she laughed, yelled, groan, cried or croon,
Silliness, jokes, laughs, rivers of love, kisses above us flown,
Young lovers we were, holding hands, with devotion upgrown.
I was once lost in the darkness of life, and gave up the fight,
She hold my hands, "come" she said, to open field to sunlight,
"Let go" again she said, run, play, sing, spin and whirl in might,
I was luminary again, radiated like celestial fire on moonless night.
She is the one, who ignited the stars, and planted the roses,
Decorated my life with her musical cords, and magical gnosis,
So special my darling, possesses the miracles and the stick of Moses,
Happy 27th anniversary my gorgeous wife, and with love I closes.
I wandered and travelled
Nor knew where I'd gone .
Life became a problem;
T'was one long cruel song.
My problems seem to multiply;
They came from every side.
I vowed to find the answer;
by this I would abide.
I looked into nature
And tore apart my mind.
Then put them on the table
To see what I could find.
I found that I'de been greedy
and avaricious, too.
Whenever projects of mine failed
I put the blame on you.
I found that I was lonely;
I thought you didn't care.
But what I really didn't know
Was you were always there.
You tried to fill the void
That always was in my Life.
you tried to ease the sorrow
You've been a real good Wife.
Yvette & Grandpa Murray
From James Murray to , Janet Murray ..his beautiful wife.
" In great respect of Grandfather Murray's poem he wrote for my Grandmother Murray "
A Little Nip
To Settle Your Stomach
And Gladden Your Heart
To Warm The Nights
While We're Apart
Twenty years of wedded bliss
this September we celebrate.
All because of that first kiss
when your lips settled my fate
and love my life would dominate.
Don't think of me as a stranger,
I'll be the man who protects you from danger.
I want to take you to loves extremes,
And possibly be the man of your dreams.
I'm a man that's honest and true,
And all I want is to be with you.
Just tell me what else I have to do,
To be the man you look at and say "I love you."
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