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~{}~ Don’t be sad, we were not meant to be It was a forbidden fling Not love, but just a phase I walk along the restless sea Thinking of what might have been Elsewhere in time and place My true love is beside me He knows me in and out And I keep in his pace Goodbye for ever to a friend As friends we can not be This phase had but to sadly end So I will set...

If there is one topic that has had the most written about, it probably is love. It is one of the strongest emotions (along with hate) that we experience. It is a universal emotion; I have never read or heard of anyone who is sane that has not felt it. It is as ingrained into our genes as is the act of breathing. I have no doubt that the newborn child feels sit towards others even though its...

If there is one topic that has had the most written about, it probably is love. It is one of the strongest emotions (along with hate) that we experience. It is a universal emotion; I have never read or heard of anyone who is sane that has not felt it. It is as ingrained into our genes as the act of breathing. I have no doubt that the newborn child feels sit towards others even though its mind...

IT IS GOD’S LOVE What is it that keeps us together? It is God’s love that binds us. Why do we get along as we do? It is God’s love always forgiving. When I feel down like the weather, It is God’s love encouraging me. When my flesh cries out for a touch, It is God’s love that quiets me. When all around don’t see my pain, It is God’s love healing my heart. Why...

~{}~ A pub full of people and you standing there drinking your last glass of dark coloured beer The music not louder than hollow hard laughter Images fading in smokey thick air somewhere in between, we were going somewhere or was it after An iron bed with torn and cold sheets you opened the window to let go the white dove it silently flew in the dark coloured night Away...

~{}~ If shelter was what you came looking for Or the warmth of my bed Or the arms I put around you -And it was all that you needed, you said - Then why was it not enough Later, early, in the hard morning light when the snow silenced all other life when it was still too cold to be outside? How come you went away then Again, leaving me shattered, and fighting my tears the...

As I approach my 58th birthday this week, I’ve been reflecting on all the love in my life. My family has already begun celebrating this seemingly non-significant birthday number. My daughter took me shopping for yoga clothes a couple of weeks ago when she visited. Additional presents were stashed away to be presented on the "actual day". My son and his girlfriend surprised me with a magical...

~{}~ His face appears from long ago And though his hair is whiter now He is the same His eyes say that all now is well But tell the story of his life He saw the world, he fought and fled And wed a wife That wasn’t right for him he says But no regret That they have met He‘ll sail away on New Years day Now may he leave on New Years Eve, The year will end with our...

Now and then, I’m going to do something different; I’m going to post a poem. Most often they are poems of love wanted, love attained and love lost. After all, love is one on the most universal emotions. Even the seemingly most introvert, the most quiet and subdued has love coursing through their views, whether admitted or not. Here’s the first one....