{"id":1339,"date":"2018-09-23T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?page_id=1339"},"modified":"2018-09-23T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:51:02","slug":"love-volumes-8-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/love-volumes-8-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Love. Volumes 8-10."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-130 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clearicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"339\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 36pt;\">Love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Volume Eight<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><u>CONTENTS<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#1\">Written Through a Dense Fog of Illness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#2\">I Woke From a Dream of a Dream<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#3\">Wings of Flight Gifted Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#4\">The Threshold of Love (Ewe Napier Frequency)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#5\">It\u2019s How I Love You, not \u2018How Do?&#8217;\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#6\">The Roses I Grew for You (Last Dance)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#7\">Young Prince, The Princess, and The King (a semi-true tale)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#8\">Exhaustion Overwhelms<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#9\">Happy Birthday Patti, 09\/21\/2014<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#10\">Patti&#8217;s Birthday Poem, 09\/21\/2013<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#11\">Hazel Eyes from Heaven (Birthday Poem), 09\/21\/2012<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Volume Nine<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;\">CONTENTS<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#12\">From This Hospital Bed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#13\">Mmmmmm Poem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#14\">My Heart Beats for You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#15\">1970 Hear the Chorus of Nature Sing<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#16\">Bless Me Lord, I&#8217;m Desperate to Live<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#17\">I Have Soared Like an Eagle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#18\">A Silhouette of Two<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#19\">I Will Dance With You on the Moon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#20\">Within My Frame<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Volume Ten<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">CONTENTS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#21\">My Love is Written in Sands of Time<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#22\">The Angel in My Heart<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#23\">Gold Dust of You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#24\">1970 Frost Covered Glass<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#25\">I Savor Her Kiss<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#26\">1965 Slip Away, Sweet Patti<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#27\">My 68th Birthday Review<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#28\">1969 Fueled By Her Touch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Volume Eight<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Written Through a Dense Fog of Illness<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I lay my heart at your footstep so you understand the feelings I feel,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The awkwardness of a new love is still within telling me it&#8217;s real,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though forty-five years have passed through the hourglass as sand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You influence my thoughts and mood with the touch of your hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Cricket&#8217;s chirps come to life for lovers parked on Lover&#8217;s Lane,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The silent hush of dusk&#8217;s manifestation is broken by falling rain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We&#8217;ve known those non-sounds as well as those filling the air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As time travels the obstacles and joys of love, I will be there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My resolve to re-earn your love was immense as I pushed me on,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I had no fear in war that was near the fear that you may be gone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The smile on your face as you came near was a moment to behold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">An aurora of love surrounded our space in shades of silver and gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Two young adults wanting to reestablish a love connection as one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Truth be known both had fallen in love before the first date was done,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My knees truly were weak and your little hand was shaking, too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Dreams of love and reality became the same for a moment or two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Surely a glowing aurora of silver and gold could be seen by everyone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As promised I returned the first week of summer feeling I&#8217;m the one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As the sun fills darkness with warmth and light you brighten my day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The setting sun brings promise of another date and time to play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As years have traveled the gateways of my mind I love you more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many wonderful memories of holding you are what I live for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The morning prize is to look into your beautiful eyes at daybreak,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Not a day has passed that I&#8217;d discard, nor another day would I take,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;ve chased the moon for the perfect moment to again take your hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I was more moved on our 40th vow exchange upon Ireland&#8217;s green land,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though mountains are high and the clouds fly, they&#8217;ll never touch my high,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have married the angel of my dreams, as I kiss her my mind starts to fly,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In sixty-nine, a younger me was spit out by our military&#8217;s mighty fleet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To be expendable yet alive is near an impossible yet improbable feat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The thought of your loving me brought me strength to carry on,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My biggest fear was to return home and my angel was gone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Long ago I made a promise to accept the pain as dues if you love me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though I have endured tremendous pain, it is an out of balance fee,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I should pay tenfold the pain for the wondrous life I&#8217;ve been living,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A gift from heaven is that our love goes beyond what we have given,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A gentler me has escaped the cocoon of a middle-age man, it&#8217;s true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">All the good inside me I must disclose has come from loving you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have become a man of patience where once there was stress,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To say I can&#8217;t live without you is a statement of fact I must confess,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">At night long ago when restlessness erupted inside my being,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I walked the shores facing west in hopes of what the wind may bring,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many journeys taken, yet they all had one location to return to,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If my journeys created a web, they would culminate with you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There&#8217;s a goodness in your angelic heart that most will never see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It becomes magical if given the privilege as has been given me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You found what little worth I carried and multiplied it a hundred fold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though I will never be such, but in your presence I appear to be gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You are so many things in one, it&#8217;s impossible for me to describe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You&#8217;re an angel from heaven when I need nourishment inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There will never be a woman more sensual than you for my need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With one hundred percent certainty to this, I must concede,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;ve closed my eyes at times to float above the clouds of reality,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I soared the possibilities of my life and at each turn you were with me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The worst moment in my life has been better than the best without you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Touch my mental weakness with a kiss upon my forehead, it penetrates through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I become aglow, have you seen my leathered face become tender then?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Tears trace my face with small rivers of misery as thoughts of losing you enter in,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I pray secret prayers written by me so long ago as I suffered the indignities of war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With each pain I endured it became easier as I embraced what I was living for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It&#8217;s impossible to return to a treasured moment in time no matter how I try,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But through my memories I was able to relive enough of your love to get by,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Those same prayers and memories put wings upon my shoulders for lift,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Every kiss, memory and moment with you becomes another treasured gift,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Bringing me home no matter the burden or time, I find shelter in your arms,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I recall these precious memories as needed to ease pain from inflicted harm,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Through you I live and it is for you that I fight to live as I will continue to do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Know please, my dear treasured angel, I will forever be in love with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end.  Written through a dense fog of illness for my dear sweet Patti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No better wife exists upon this earth, why a weak man such as me should be blessed as no other man has been blessed is unknown.  I am forever grateful to our Maker for blessing me so. January 26, 2014.  Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"2\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">I Woke From a Dream of a Dream<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My heart is not golden nor is it silver as some folks have been told,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am but a man of rust with dust and frail bones in the damming cold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Can&#8217;t the world see I can no longer cling to a dream that is too old, too?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As the sand erodes under my footsteps I search the shores for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There&#8217;s no time to wonder and there is no time to wander anywhere,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Walking through cities unknown I realize I&#8217;m lost if you don&#8217;t care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The pea coat I wear of foreign design isn&#8217;t mine as I struggle alone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">An old man yells for me to run, repent and the last words were atone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I crack my head against the curb as I run and I find you in my sleep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To find you anywhere will mend my heart to prevent this endless weep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">All of my life I have clung to a dream you would give your love to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Tell me, oh tell me please, kiss me in front of everyone that they may see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I miss you I do, oh how I miss you; it&#8217;s so long from long ago back then,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Don&#8217;t wake me to reality please, let me sleep that I may see you again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The gold pathway leads to marble statues of a Greek goddess long ago,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I walk the pathways of my dreams to find empty spaces everywhere I go,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It&#8217;s my dream of happiness will you hold me in my dreams of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;ve been hanging on alone here, tell me my dream angel what do I do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The lips I feel upon my lips have awoken a sensation I thought I&#8217;d lost,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is that you my dream angel, will you keep me warm from the frost,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;m on my way back home I&#8217;m sure, I heard your voice in a dream,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Why is it, I wonder, that my dreams are never as good as it seems,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I still wake without you there although I held you a moment or two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;d love to find you though in a dream I need to say I still love you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A tender kiss has awakened me and I&#8217;ve woke from a dream of a dream,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The things you said to me in a dream, my dear, cannot be good for esteem,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So sweet to wake me from this dream within a dream before I fell apart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your sparkling eyes of hazel have once again saved my dreaming heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">By Pat for Patti.  I love you.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"3\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Wings of Flight Gifted Me<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My heart has wings of flight; it&#8217;s been so many years since I flew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With but tender words spoken lovingly of dreams told me by you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When you told me of your past dreams that I was the winner of,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The setting sun brought darkness that fed the growth of my love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As the stars began to twinkle in the sky my heart grew wings for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Heartbeats in unison played a serenade of lover&#8217;s hearts times two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Do your eyes shine for me, is that what you whispered in my head,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Something swirled around my heart and took my breath instead,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Whispered sweet and low as you held me close and tenderly near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Words of love so sweet and true came unexpected into my aged ear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I love you. my husband dear, it is you I dreamed of when I went to bed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From age thirteen on, all through school, you were always in my head,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The night air was filled with a fluttering of wings as if a hummingbird,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It&#8217;s true you whispered, &#8220;I&#8217;ve always dreamed of you, I give my word,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Then my eye returned a teardrop given me when orders came and I left,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The excitement of last night left my mind so bare I didn&#8217;t notice the theft,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Once more my heart was stolen into the night as it followed you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many days have followed me into the darkness that I may view,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A beautiful you, so many years of wonder eclipsed by wander anew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Another journey into the unknown can cease at last as I know, too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Gifted to my heart the wings of flight after guarding a secret so long,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Endless call outs into the night as I asked you if your love is strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From the dark you came like a glowing ember taking to the night air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The wonderment of elation before unknown to me came of your care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">All the way from oceans long crossed came birds in song for me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In the distance a dance of tall trees in rhythmic sway I could see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A song played by angels and choirs of voices unknown filled the air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Almost given me a fortnight ago came from she of long flowing hair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A wish long ago for dreams of me, no longer needs to be feign by me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You dreamt of me while in another&#8217;s arms long before I crossed the sea,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Secured a need so needed to know it became a torment hidden from view,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though we may be aged, surprises and gifts of love still come from you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You&#8217;re beautiful, my senior angel, again tonight it&#8217;s proven, your love is true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I fly into a sea of unknown twinkling stars of reflecting diamond&#8217;s flare,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Beneath my wings of flight stardust is left to show we were once there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Perhaps the milky way was created by two beings of old before they slept,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Energized by but a few words of love I am renewed where age has crept,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And tonight I place my head upon a pillow fresh of where an angel slept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thank you baby, the end, by Pat for Patti.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"4\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">The Threshold of Love (Ewe Napier Frequency)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is it possible my love has passed the threshold of any love known before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Shot beyond known boundaries so quickly there was no time to explore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I feel the extreme, I feel it reach hard from my heart as it bursts forth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">At last I\u2019m an explorer of the unknown as I touch both south and north,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">  <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Waves of energy burst from my chest as rivers of my love flow towards you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So rare and unknown a frequency, it\u2019s named of rare and unknown Isle Ewe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From the west of Scotland was a small island occupied by the Napier clan,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s a rare love frequency made from Lady Napier heat and me, your man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When frequencies collide either a new wave is born or it\u2019s no longer much,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I must radiate my love when you are near, only your pure form can do such,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is it possible my frequencies of pure love can penetrate our earth through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Questions I\u2019ve pondered as my love burst forth, especially made for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">  <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yet, I realize such extreme of love requires senders and receiver, too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let the world know now, it\u2019s reciprocal, I too receive great love from you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If I could just absorb every particle and frequency emitted by your essence,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019d be that oscillating unseen mass as I absorbed each wave in your presence,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">  <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To soon shoot off like a love projectile, weightless against gravity and force,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Of only you my sweet hazel eyed beauty with blue surround and rust of course,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I cherish a glance or to be entranced, I even hope to be absorbed into your being,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With each tender kiss of angel lips, I know it\u2019s the eyes of an angel I\u2019m seeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My angel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">By Pat for Patti. May 30, 2015 @ 3:45 AM, love\u2019s flame is ever burning,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And it burns to exceed the night before, my heart ever yearning, wanting you more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I love you so much my beautiful little girl. It\u2019s hard to stop writing how much I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">It\u2019s How I Love You, not \u2018How Do?&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each day as I talk to you there are so may topics I wish to explore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your cuteness of discovery is so wonderful, it\u2019s something else I adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As we search for materials for our new home I actually become excited,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s more time spent with you and sharing more of the love we ignited,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">This isn\u2019t a love poem of need or want but to express even more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There is more to you than physical contact, there\u2019s little things I adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your cute giggle to express contentment and another to say yes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We have known each other so long that it is no longer a guess,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I look into your eyes as another cabinet style is shown to compare,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If there is a time I can\u2019t read your eyes I must say it is very rare,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When we find something we both agree on I hear \u201cHow I love you\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Some may question how it\u2019s said but I know well, it\u2019s not \u201chow do?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You\u2019re so cute in everything you do, I\u2019ve made everyone sick for<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">over fifty years babbling on all about you.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"6\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">The Roses I Grew for You (Last Dance)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Upon our porch swing one beautiful night with moonlight and stars aglow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">White moonflower filled the air with aroma while moonbeams made it glow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It was eighteen years ago I made a discovery of you I had not known before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As we cuddled in the breeze you commented about the flowers you adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A red rose had come in bloom and was parting its petals for all to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Somehow I was struck by the moment when a similarity of love came to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Although it was under moonbeams and stardust, her rapture was apparent,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Perhaps it was affection given the rose of red that she blossomed till spent,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I do believe even a heart of stone must feel something when roses bloom,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Even more so for a rose of red with petals so divine it carries aroma to a room,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You are the rose of red, my angel, with eyes of hazel to compliment the red,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Red lips, moonbeams, aroma of Rose and moonflower saturated my head,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Truly, I felt faint within my manhood and I was so affected that night by you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I had needed you forever it seems, but that night I discovered more you do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your eyes seemed to set stardust aglow with magical violin music in play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We held our embrace after our moonlight dance and both wanted to stay,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Magic! So much magic filled the air that night and we made love right there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Red rose magic created that moment and I recall love\u2019s energy in the air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From that night I grew roses for you of every color, fragrance, and hue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And how I grew roses, do you remember the two thousand roses I grew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I delight in your smile and I study each twinkle your angel eyes create,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Growing roses for you brought smiles from heaven as I neared the gate,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Soon the abundance came and each day I was privileged to be the man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The delivery man, bringing roses for you but most of all grown by my hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">This is so true my sweet angel the room was set aglow by your essence,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your smile so perfect and twinkling eyes wide with awe and I in presence,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As we\u2019d leave your office that I could take you to lunch, I felt to be more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It was I that grew the vases of roses that brought your eyes to adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">That your friends were in awe that so many roses of color were there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Even more they were astounded by my devotion to the angel of long hair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And that made me feel good, for a moment I was that man you so deserve,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Soon I hope we will dance in our new garden of roses if I have the nerve,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">That I may have that dance, it takes courage for me as if I was still a teen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is it memories of a time way back or can it be much simpler that I mean,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yet I feel this as I anticipate your hold, I know your breast will press to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">All of this began by a rose thus I grew roses to bring a smile that I may see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I anticipate a dance with rose petals of colors spread upon the dance floor,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Perhaps a renewal of vows in our home, once a church and we made it more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Our special home where I pray we remain to grow roses of color for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Roses will abundantly grow and I will again deliver to you a bouquet or two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Then again in a future bright a renewal of vows after we are given twenty more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">An elderly man will pull you tight to gaze into your eyes and say, \u201cyou I adore,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With you in my arms I will cross into the threshold of time and he will be no more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Whispering to you, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry, my angel, it seems I left my love on the dance floor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Don\u2019t cry my angel but read the line of twenty years more, what a blessing that would be. I love you my sweet little hazel eyed angel.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"7\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Young Prince, The Princess, and The King (a semi-true tale)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There was a prince so long ago that was to one day be the king,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A hazel-eyed princess within the clan he hoped would wear his ring,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He met this maiden fair and true at an age unthought of in his time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A sweet fourteen beautiful lass when he approached her with &#8220;be mine&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She scoffed at him with unbelieving eyes that his words did not ring true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His reply to her spoken desperately, &#8220;my beautiful girl, I&#8217;m in love with you,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So beautiful she was this young princess that he feared his worth too small,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I swear to you my Lady of &#8220;Hazel Eyes&#8221; I will one day be a greater man so tall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Sneaking away anytime she could as she and her sister rode the chariot to town,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her sister despised the prince as he had rejected her and she wanted him down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Fair princess couldn&#8217;t be deterred as her heart beat hard when he came near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And he lost all his strength, his composure too, appearing as if drunk on beer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His father the King of Chill said earn your due so the prince had to toll for a fare,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It seems all odds were against the prince of brown eyes with black and curly hair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her parents saw him to be another prince seeking but a notch upon his sword,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She became a maiden no more that year as secretly they gave each their word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The rigors of war called him to train and he left her permission to play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His heart so weary to depart with death so near he said this in a loving way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Fear not my angel, I swear to you someday you&#8217;ll wear my wedding band,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One day after two years away he found her as she rode across the land,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her eyes filled with joy as she asked him to sneak away as they did before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A secret kiss that ignited their souls questioned what they were living for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve missed you so much,&#8221; he said to her, &#8220;but I must return to battle again,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But something had changed for the two as true love began to grow within,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The long kiss farewell brought teardrops to fall inside his lonely heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each time they stole away together something came to tear them apart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From parents to a call to duty there was always a new burden to bear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">This time, though, something was new as their true love began to flare,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Letters he wrote were stolen away and hidden by the beauty&#8217;s mother,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She had always fought and pushed that her daughter would marry another,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A warrior fighting in a faraway land must have hope and a will to survive,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without the feelings of true love the prince may not come home alive,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Villains of the foreign land detained young prince and brought hell to bear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">While at home nightmares and fear of loss brought fair princess to prayer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Somehow she envisioned him in the worst of ways, bound and hanging on a wall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The truth of that chamber were horrors so fierce she couldn&#8217;t envision them all,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Sadly, he did hang upon the wall and whips laced his flesh with welts and pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">While he endured the whip and dislocation of joints he whispered her name,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I cry to you my long haired beauty and pray I can survive each day one more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As light faded to a dimension unknown he would see her open his cell door,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She&#8217;d pray for him desperately at night as she feared something was amiss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And he would slip away in his mind to find her and steal away for one more kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As his life slipped away he heard music of violins play when a vision of her came,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Was it a vision he saw for it was she the princess he had asked to take his name,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His father the King and his mother did what was necessary to secure release,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Agreeing to do as necessary and ordering that the captivity of a spy would cease,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So frail upon his return they thought his torture may remain within his mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His treatment upon the rack questioned his ability to walk and his sanity to find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Months of treatment by the medieval doctors as well as wizards and priest prayers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Brought little hope until one day he cried and announced let me be, my heart despairs,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So distraught he was as he fought tears of loneliness, despair, and emotions unknown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He wept for she of hazel eyes and long flowing hair, the only love he had known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Word came that she had sought his release and had been praying for his return,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The prince was encouraged, he so needed but a chance that her love he might earn,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When recovery seemed sure, an infection set in and our prince fell within his mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He had suffered so long it seems the energy to recover was impossible to find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He awoke into a world of rose gardens with trees of perfection all around,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The gold pathways were wide and true and he soon heard a heavenly sound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Laced within violins and harps in play he heard the hazel eyed girl&#8217;s voice,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">&#8220;What are you doing here young prince,&#8221; his reply to her was he had no choice,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My Prince of Chill, what is it you seek in this land you have run away to,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;ve heard her voice nearby, it is her no doubt, but she sounds similar of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He crumbles within as he feels her touch upon his skin and her kiss on his face,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Return to me I beg, my prince, when suddenly he woke looking about the place,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Soon young prince regained mind and strength that he may return home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Wonderment filled his head as he thought of hearing her when he was alone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The land of his father had near forgotten the prince as he returned unknown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From nowhere came the princess of two years past and her happiness was shown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To be the king of chill was his right although he never saw himself as a leader,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her steed came to rest near the prince and his heart awakened to forever need her,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Tears filled his heart but his eyes didn&#8217;t betray him as they both asked about a letter,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To see her beautiful face was a dream fulfilled only a kiss could have been better,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">What are you doing here, young prince, don&#8217;t you realize that you have a choice,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My Prince of Chill, what is it you sought in the land you ran away to, your voice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With those words she spoke, young prince remembered them from his mind&#8217;s fall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I must leave once more, my princess, for I fear I must answer one final call,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Will you return to me once more, young prince, that I may again be in your hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He packed the bags and all belongings and vacated the castle as he had been told,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her last word of &#8220;Promise&#8221; played in his mind, her word of fear rang in his head,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And once again he rode away, when he would rather remain with her instead,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Time dragged on yet young prince did return with new chariot and gold in hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It seems while gone he realized his father&#8217;s departure left no king of this land,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Chill had no king yet our prince&#8217;s main desire was to have the princess in his life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Again, she found the prince but this time she boldly said, &#8220;prince make me your wife,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Soon at last, a celebration of love rang out across the land of the prince&#8217;s marriage,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Together they went to celebrate their honeymoon and left in a handcrafted carriage,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The rules of the land stated that when the prince took a mate he became the king,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He had endured so much to be with the girl he loved, he was at last, the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Chillking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat for Patti. I love you my angel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Pat and Patti King are the owners of Chillking Chillers Inc. thus the King of Chill is appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Most of the story is very close to the actual events but 300 years apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"8\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Exhaustion Overwhelms<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From the shadows of my mind a future now present I find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Am I aged or is this an illusion created by my traveled mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When last I looked there was a younger me within my face,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It is most apparent no doubt that I am losing this lifetime race,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As exhaustion overwhelms my frame my mind succumbs too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Moving comes hard as does thoughts but for those of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Where you have gone troubles my mind yet I remember where,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019m sure you know exhaustion has control or I would be there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Bring her back I plead of destiny as I know I have no control,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To become rust of man is a sad feat but still I must pay the toll,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I must appear well because I can see you approach the door,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If I appear as such a broken man will you need me anymore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I know you will as I know you need me also although not as bad,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My shoulder has a place created by your head in the life I\u2019ve had,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s where you sleep at night as you restore me that I may go on,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though I am rust of man it\u2019s with this beautiful angel I belong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat for Patti.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"9\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Happy Birthday Patti, 09\/21\/2014<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Golden chariots with opulent interiors carry the angels heaven bound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I would harness a chariot of gold for your birthday if one could be found,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But for you I would be a wandering lost soul still living in war\u2019s loneliness,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We share an endless river of love, together we have found happiness,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Another birthday celebration that I appreciate much more than you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There\u2019s no word known to express my gratitude for all the things you do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Only I can relax in the embrace of your soothing aura to become a man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You surround me like warm flowing water to touch every pain you can,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Upon my departure of this paradise that came from your love given me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My desire is sincere that my tombstone reads the following for all to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">\u201cHere lies the husband of Patricia Napier King, the luckiest man on earth,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Know this my angel, my life wouldn\u2019t be so wonderful without your birth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The photograph I\u2019ve treasured more than precious gold means so much,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yet I would part with it for but a moment more to feel your fingers touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve loved you forever it seems, yet daily I find reasons to love you more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Happy Birthday my beautiful little angel, your loving me is what I live for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, happy birthday baby.  I love you, Pat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To our cherished readers, I have given instructions with my son and daughter that I have two requests upon my passing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">-That my lifelong treasured photo of Patti be in my fingers hold when I am laid to rest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">-My second request is that my tombstone reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">\u201cHere lies the husband of Patricia Napier King, the luckiest man on earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">This must be the prominent line and the top line of my tombstone please.  I do plan to be around a long time. With prayer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">faith, hope and love, I know it can happen.  So, don\u2019t make the stone too soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"10\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Patti&#8217;s Birthday Poem, 09\/21\/2013<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve decided once more to write a poem of love and devotion to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To you I have given my life and for you everything I\u2019ve been through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I hear a songbird introduce the morning mood, I love you more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It seems everything in my life becomes a memory of what I live for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It is you that has given me the will to fight when I didn\u2019t want to,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To say I am grateful beyond the scope of words is so very true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I reflect on life there is only one day that deserves all my due,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve so many things to be thankful for but mainly the birth of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without you I would be void love as I have known only love at first sight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though wings aren\u2019t seen, each day I\u2019m greeted by the angel of first light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With each passing day the visual memory of you remains the same,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In my eyes the beautiful angel of my wedding day will always remain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each beauty line of endurance upon your angelic face are placed to enhance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Like a fine work of art each line placed by time\u2019s hand are not by chance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So privileged am I to have watched the Master\u2019s hand through the years,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each day you have become so much more beautiful, in joy I shed tears,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your eyes convey the love you carry for our family as I watch you now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I write these words yet my efforts to express seem so empty somehow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Words of grateful love have so much to be desired when writing of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If I could find these words of expression I would start this poem anew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To bring precious stones not of earth from places unknown may show,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Although after all these years I believe you already know I love you so,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One gift given me long ago is the most precious gift of love I\u2019ll ever know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A first kiss given me by you is the finest treasure my epitaph should show,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Should the moon crash to Earth, it can\u2019t describe the sensation within,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without your birth my true existence in life would not be able to begin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In languages unknown that better describe love, \u201cI give my love to you,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From deep within my heart I pray your every birthday wish to come true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"11\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Hazel Eyes From Heaven<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Hazel eyes from heaven on a birthday girl&#8217;s special day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Those eyes of an angel have saved me in a special way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Take flight, little angel, touch all those with special need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Children need your love as you are an angel of special breed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Eyes so beautiful artists struggle to duplicate the look,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As you came to earth the core of heaven must have shook,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Your hazel eyes of angel breed dance with colors galore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As a young man lingering within a gaze I wanted more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Lips of true red with no color added from artificial means,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each year adds more brilliance you have an angel&#8217;s sheen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Kaleidoscope eyes with colors dancing about may describe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The heavenly eyes I enjoy from gazing into my angelic bride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Have taken me on journeys beyond description for common man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s so difficult to describe with words but I&#8217;ll do the best I can,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Imagine for a moment a place of peace filled with love there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Aroma of roses laced with gardenia filling the evening air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Stars from heaven twinkle with even full-ringed planets in view,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Birds and butterflies are about but each one are there for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I gaze into her eyes a kiss of her lips lets the journey begin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I pull her close so breasts full press my chest and our bare skin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"> <\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s as if all the passion known to man collides to envelop my being,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Glory of passion only comes from what loving an angel will bring,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s her birthday today but I am the one receiving the gift,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Loving my wife on her birthday brings my heart and soul a lift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">All rose photographs upon this site are of roses grown by me and photographed by Patti. She has such an artistic touch when photographing roses, flowers, and children. Watch for more photographs as time avails. All photographs of Patti are taken by Patrick King, her husband.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a name=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Volume Nine<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">From This Hospital Bed<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From this hospital bed there is so little I can do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But most of all it gives me more alone time with you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I just studied a red rose from a photograph you took,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Everything you do is magic, you should write a book,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I studied the red rose, I tried to absorb every bit,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Never realizing how intricate until I took time to study it,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As the rose is beautiful you are beautiful in every way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Unlike an aging rose you are more beautiful each day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Every wave and line on each rose petal is perfection,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Such is so of you, my angel, even beyond imagination,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each worry line upon your angelic face are sadly mine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There&#8217;s no way I could repay you even if given the time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your beautiful, naturally red lips remind me of a red rose,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I don&#8217;t know why it is so, it is a thought that just arose,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The aroma of a red rose is often a scent from paradise,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But I know the secret to paradise is in your hazel eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, for Patti,  I love you baby.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"13\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Mmmmmm Poem<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Before I close my eyes to sleep at night I say a prayer for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">That all is well within your being because of all you\u2019ve been through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I softly whisper your name as I think of you, I\u2019ve done this every night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My sole desire through my life is to be the one kissing you goodnight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I hear violins playing a tender love song that you and I might dance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Do angels visit our earth with destiny in hand or is it all by chance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As we dance and dance around as dancers do I absorb your touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It would be nice to find a bouquet of roses that say I love you so much,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I bite my tongue that I resist the sexy things I want to say to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From the tip of my tongue I fight the urge to say \u201cit\u201d and follow through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There is no other I\u2019d rather hold than you although it\u2019s hard to dance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My desire has overtaken my genius and is whispering take a chance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With you in my arms I am secure as if you could actually turn the tide,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Not meant as detrimental it\u2019s just that you\u2019re such a little thing I confide,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Mmmmmm is a word not spelled but to me it means \u201cmmmm\u201d let me see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A thousand \u201cmmm\u2019s\u201d is not enough \u201cmmm\u2019s\u201d to say \u201cI love you\u201d for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, for Patti<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"14\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\"> My Heart Beats for You<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A dream came to me as I listened to the rain and started to fall asleep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I wondered aloud in my sleep is this a dream or a story to make you weep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So tenderly you laid your beautiful head upon my chest as you slipped away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Your eyes of hazel looked into mine as you whispered, \u201cthank you for this day,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The many times I had cheated death and you were taking your final breath,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So ironic this was happening yet painfully sad it was not mine but your death,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019d never felt so much anguish in all of my life as I felt my chest tear apart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My love is forever, long ago I made you a promise and I gave you my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As many times as I\u2019ve been hospitalized the odds were it would happen here,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019ve passed on in this hospital three times, there\u2019s a heaven and hell it is clear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To see the bright light above as you speed to the light is a joy you know by now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I screamed for the doctors when you passed out, they must save you somehow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I stare at your profile I hear the monitor and I tell myself you\u2019re just asleep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My loving you has been a gift and I swear it is something I\u2019m going to keep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many things you\u2019ve given to me and I know you\u2019re here because of me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Your trip to the store to get a treat for me has ended in a horrible tragedy,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Your sweet heart has been pierced not by Cupid\u2019s arrow but metal of my car,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I know I will miss you desperately but I will see you in my sleep from afar,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The only words I can think to say, I love you, I\u2019m so sorry, I\u2019ll love you forever,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My surgery is scheduled and I must go now perhaps I\u2019ll see you in the nether,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As they roll me off I watch you on life support and it breaks my heart in two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Remember me, my angel, have no fear of loneliness for I give my heart to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I pray the prayers of a patient about to go under again for the fiftieth time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I told you I would have at least one more because it can\u2019t end on forty-nine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s funny about surgery because you remember going into a deep sleep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s a sleep that is actually wonderful because you feel it is a sleep so deep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I pray for you, oh how I pray for you and I tell God that I gave my heart to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">God understands, I\u2019m sure, because He created you and He loves you too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I wake and I can\u2019t move as I feel a machine breathe for me as I knew it would,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s difficult to breathe and each breath is forced, I\u2019d take a deep breath if I could,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I motion for them to move me into your room and this time the nurses are here,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You\u2019re awake and smiling at me as you tell me they found a heart and it was near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I said we were a perfect match, a perfect match is what they were looking for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The concern on your face is showing as you notice I\u2019m on life support once more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Today I will prove my love to you because this day I officially give my heart to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It is my heart beating in your chest, my beautiful angel it was the only thing I could do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I woke from my dream I realized I was dreaming of the reality of this day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I felt the extreme anguish I\u2019d felt so long ago when Uncle Sam called me away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I made the doctors try to keep me alive so I could see you wake once more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Now you know, my hazel eyed beauty, that you are truly what I am living for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In a decision of love I give you my life and I give you the heart beating inside of me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Long ago I gave this heart to you, and today there\u2019s no doubt I love you completely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I will be with you forever my angel and I will dance with you until each day is done,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019m fading away my hazel eyed beauty, I\u2019ll love you forever, we now beat as\u2026.one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, a sad but beautiful dream I had.  I love you baby.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"15\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">1970 Hear the Chorus of Nature Sing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Hear the chorus of nature sing melodies so soft and simple of word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">With nature\u2019s whisper more is said than most in a lifetime has heard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Our Mother Nature can pull a tree from her surface as if it is a weed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s through her that each and everyone of us has a relationship of need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And here the chorus of nature sings melodies so soft and tender sweet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When nature whispers it may be more than a whisper if shown complete,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Tonight Mother Nature whispered into the air in the form of a soft breeze,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Our need this night was perfection, for us she softly whispered in the trees,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A tender breeze set the mood for surrender this night so long ago,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Fear was unknown as the night brought perfection for us to know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Creatures shared the night as echoes of crickets filled the night air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A kiss delivered by your lips had to come from heaven or near there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As my heart prepared for the moment to ask you I kissed you more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many times my lips parted to say \u201cwill you\u201d to fade as I did before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I place my lips upon your neck as I note your parted lips in the mirror,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So very sure of my words, these were words to be never said in error,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Everything was in motion the moment I decided to ask as I laid in wait,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Love has built so incredibly large in my heart I know that I won\u2019t hesitate,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You\u2019ve asked a number of times \u201cwhat?\u201d as if you expect me to speak,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And speak I will when the moment is correct and I haven\u2019t grown weak,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To make love with you in the cool Texas air brings pleasure ill described,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Once the night moved forward this was an action of mine to not be denied,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The moment has fallen upon us as we stand on the porch to say goodnight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWill you marry me?\u201d Your \u201cyes\u201d has sent me to heaven on a love flight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I remember in 1965 as I moved away to Dallas I thought of you all the way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As always I stayed awake as I drove by imagining our future wedding day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From my hotel room I went to bed and I imaged you had run off with me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">For so many years I dreamed of this and now it will soon come to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end. By Pat<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Written in August of 1970.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"16\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Bless Me Lord, I&#8217;m Desperate to Live<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Bless me dear Jesus as I\u2019m desperate to continue this wonderful life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You have gifted it to me and I greatly appreciate my children and wife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The unconditional love given me by Patti has been given one lucky man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am that man and I thank you Lord for that I will do the very best I can,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I realize I have failed to exemplify how a Christian should act while in pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Please forgive me for the times I have grown short and acted with disdain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Bless my wife please and protect her always especially when I\u2019m not near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I will treat others as you would remembering that in your eyes all are dear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Bestow your blessings on my children and grandchildren during this time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If allowed to go on my Lord I will be better at teaching to all that are mine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">For my brothers and sisters I pray for your blessing and understanding,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As for me dear Lord, I will do my best to endure any dues life may bring,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am ashamed that my actions haven\u2019t shown Your Word in everything I do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I endure the many diseases I\u2019ve encountered I will try to act more like you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Forgiveness I\u2019ve given as I hold no grudges instead I try to understand why,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My life is Yours Dear Lord please guide me in my actions long before I die,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Free will you have given to us that we may have unconditional love to offer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Thank You My Lord for the unconditional love that has been given me by her,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Until I stood to protect her one evening did I realize the true meaning of love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Static love has no progress thus I thank You as I\u2019m with the one I dream of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, by Pat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Lord Jesus please bless me that I may survive another hurdle to return to her arms,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Thank you Lord.  June 22, 2015. NW Memorial Hospital.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"17\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">I Have Soared Like an Eagle<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I have soared like an eagle from but a touch of your hand on mine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A touch so pleasant and smooth it relates to a silken gown so fine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I soared high above it all I look below to see you look up at me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s a sensation of sweet elation that has cut the ropes to set me free,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From you flows magic as you have worked magic on a man like me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The minute I knew that I\u2019d marry you I became better than I should be,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">For over fifty five years I\u2019ve attained things beyond my meager means,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You are my dream angel, the one I have always wanted in my dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In this land of magic and visions I see two young lovers as they walk,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps it\u2019s just a vision but I\u2019d swear I heard a man and woman talk,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It sounds as if they are in love back in a timeline forty-five years past,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So near I must be to heaven as I hear trumpets blare coming fast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I wonder aloud about this flight I\u2019ve taken courtesy of beautiful you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How can this be?  Surely it must be some wormhole I flew through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each dimension in time is there with but a thought I can see it all,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many different images of you fill the air until I yell stop or stall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How I knew to yell such a thing is beyond my comprehension right now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I have been hanging on for so long but you always save me somehow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am but tarnished tin with rust that has begun to eat away my structure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Endurance is my creed as I know well the need to endure for our future,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Ever so deeply I long for your touch once more as I feel a need to soar,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Often I\u2019ve risen too late to reach for your body as you walk out the door,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Without the heavenly touch of your flesh I am no more to walk in the brush,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let me soar on Eagle\u2019s wings, desperately I need your touch, please rush,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Precious love is safely in a chest at heaven\u2019s door with guardians there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Love so special it is guarded by muscular archangels with long gold hair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Precious love is any love for to love is a gift unto itself to receiver and giver,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Because of our intense love just a light touch can produce in me a shiver,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From the clouds I hear a sweet melody of violins, chimes, and harps in unison,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A whisper comes from nowhere and I\u2019m found in your arms to dance as one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In but a moment I am found holding you in a tight embrace of lover\u2019s dance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I remember so many years ago when I prayed you\u2019d see me and take a chance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As always you have sought me out to find me as it was your whisper I heard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">This time my angel as we dance I will whisper the most treasured of word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let us dance in tight embrace under an umbrella of twinkling heavenly view,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Even today I feel nervous in my delivery of the special words, \u201cI love you\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, by Pat from hospital room June 22, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">For Patti, I love you my precious angel.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"18\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">A Silhouette of Two<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Your silhouette is cast upon the wall like a fine pice of art,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Throughout my abundant life you have been the best part,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From shoreline to Rocky Mountains linking the other side,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No other woman could possibly fill my heart with such pride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A silhouette of two in tight embrace has flooded the wall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You in my arms sweet angel is where I want to be on last call,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The night air has filled me with exuberance absent for awhile,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Father Time should arrest his advance while I wear this smile,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">First born love saw heartache too soon to survive most said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Goodbye can stop fresh love yet ours grew stronger instead,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From but a small teardrop of yours signs of love were shown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From the same teardrop the truth of your heart was known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019ve held you in strong embrace and swayed to earthly sounds,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To Mother Nature\u2019s hum we\u2019ve danced as bees made their rounds,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I treasure the nights you\u2019ve given me, both by heart and sexually,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Every year of our marriage has enamored my heart so intensely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As your tender fingertips trace my anatomy now I feel my need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My needs and wants are you as my desire for you grows with speed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Once given from my heart it is evermore love and will never cease,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So intense is your love that each day my desire sees an increase,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Infinite love born of two hearts can\u2019t be understood by most,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Someday a marriage made in heaven will have our Lord as host,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">We will renew our vows as relatives for centuries past take part,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And once more, before God and family, I will give you my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, by Pat. For Patti. I love you baby 06\/23\/2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I love you baby.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"19\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">I Will Dance With You on the Moon<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have walked the streets but I have not felt alone since then,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I returned to you as promised in nineteen seventy so we could begin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve loved you forever as you know but I have had no doubt since then,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The kiss of return lifted me higher than my discharge at ten ten,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I wish I could tell the world I love you, I hope the website will do for now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One day we will be fragments of human turned to souls in heaven somehow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As spirits you and I will fly to places we have desired to see for so very long,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Think of your delight when I can carry you because my legs are again strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When we are spirits we will meld our souls to enjoy the depth of love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I will dance with you as one while we rest on the moon that\u2019s still above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No longer will I spend my wages on gasoline and a candy bar or two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You know I loved doing it, I loved you so much nothing kept me from you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Today we host our niece and we were privileged to show her our family,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Most of all she is now part of our family and with us she will always be,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Spiritually we have melded although flesh still pumps our blood to flow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I love you so very much, my angel, you are the only love I will ever know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, for Patti, by Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Within My Frame<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Most of the things you do for me are internal and others can\u2019t see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You ring my bell when no bell is to be rung but you do it for me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The touch of your fingertips upon my tip can set my soul aflame,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The flame burns intensely hot, it\u2019s a flame unseen but still a flame,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have your molecules within me just as you have mine within you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each grain of the hourglass\u2019 sand carries a memory as it falls through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Those memories cast upon a canvas would show my story of wonderment,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A story so unbelievable interlaced with the interaction of life\u2019s excitement,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Since seventeen each day in my life has particles of her laced inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Unknown to her a reaction was taking place that was not to be denied,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each noise in the crowd became a part of what I have now become,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Somehow everything was a piece of a part that was making me the one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your attraction to me was the electrical charge akin to atoms being split,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When what is one is split a force unknown takes place because we are it,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It wants to remain as one such as the uranium atom wants to be complete,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A force not understood is within you and me so similar to atoms it\u2019s neat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Every force in the universe unites to act as one to bring apart to reunite,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When I was so far from you mother earth\u2019s magnetic fields used her might,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I felt you, I did, as I walked the mud and heat of a savage land at war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As nightfall came upon the land each event and thought brought amour,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have trembled in fear as those much larger beat me physically down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In other events I have run to protect the downtrodden when bullies abound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each event has helped to form the it I am and what courage there is in me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Many ingredients form the pulp of my base that no one could possibly see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The little girl with the runny nose that asked me if I\u2019d buy her something to eat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Within me my father dwells and somehow I know the tears were his treat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I\u2019ve danced holding you so tight the embrace is imprinted in my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A lonely tear of departure has placed molecules inside my blood you can find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Lipstick of color, clear, moisturizers and more have left their color upon mine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So proudly I left that color upon my shirt and my lips for anything that can remind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My mother\u2019s heartbreak resides inside my heart and I carry her torment as well,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am at times a castaway of life\u2019s extreme as sanity teeters inside for a spell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Gifted me along with my mother\u2019s voices that have yet to speak a word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am a part of the Fourth of July party when Korean War Vets were heard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A time when America loved her servicemen and banners of joy flew high,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I saw the returning heroes and wanted to be one of those men we don\u2019t deny,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am a piece of peace that came as a result of things I did hidden behind a wall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Inside my broken heart I carry peace but I carry also pain because of the draft call,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am the unknown soldier and I am the court-martialed teen that became afraid,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yes, I am a part of all these parts of men that were heroes or didn\u2019t make the grade,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Once I raised my weapon to fire upon a child but held back until my friend died,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am now a part of a horrible memory that children kill although it was once denied,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The fear of breast cancer was mine as two tumors were removed from mine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Men too must face the breast cancer scare and for a week it dwelt in my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each memory and each grain of sand beneath my feet have created what is me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But most of all what keeps it all contained is my driven desire of extreme mystery,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For you I must, I pray I will, to be a better man for you and to never let you down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">PTSD has created creatures that dwell deep within but have never seen town,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am a better man because of she that has left molecules to live within,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I carry remnants of only one inside my heart, it was her heart I did win,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A magical pull will start each day as we depart the place we hold dear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Once more another ingredient will mix into the mix that keeps me here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Loving you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a name=\"21\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Volume Ten<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">My Love is Written in Sands of Time<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Patti, my sweet angel, I want you to forever know that my purpose is one in life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have no reasons to seek riches but to ensure of your needs as my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Those words sound so minimal as written and should contain explanation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My reason to live is written in the sands of time for those that seek revelation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It shall be revealed one day as we cross the threshold into the kingdom of gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Only my heart and our Lord know why my journey was treacherous as it is told,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To love Patti as she deserves I had to learn isolated loneliness to an extreme,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A journey into the known while clutching her photo as reality instead of a dream,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without the extremes of a war experience can a man know the fear of departure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It wasn\u2019t so much the fear of death but departing her love as a form of forfeiture,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I touched her fingertips as I held onto life at the cliff\u2019s edge while I reached out,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To be so near the ultimate satisfaction in life and then never know what it\u2019s about,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thus I had to endure ordeals so extreme in life that it sounds false if said by me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The journeys taken as a draftee forced to take part in the making of our history,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To experience the indignities of men\u2019s brutalities were in reality a gift given me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For without the experience of a vision from heaven in the form of angelic Patti,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without that vision my heart and soul couldn\u2019t know the ecstasy of an appearance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Then elation filled my heart, elation gifted to me by His Hand to give me reassurance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">That she was waiting for me faithfully without my request that she should do such,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It was then I discovered she is akin the rose even being dangerous by thorn to touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s true that I was stricken by Patti since I first saw her before being she was a teen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I was so taken by her stunning beauty that I wondered if those near had seen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Why I wondered, aren\u2019t they taken aback, why aren\u2019t they stricken by her beauty,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I knew at that moment why I was placed upon this earth, I knew my true duty,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I was to serve this beautiful little angel of hazel eyes and beg that she allow my seed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To fulfill her dreams of motherhood that she may experience her motherhood need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My duty was to protect, support and to give as needed for Patti\u2019s needs in life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I pray I have fulfilled her needs because no woman deserves more than my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My meager attempt of showing love with a website dedicated to her is minimal at best,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Perhaps it is better than I believe it is, or it may mean more after standing time\u2019s test,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I gave it with every ounce of my being for those that doubt the sincerity of what I did,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For you, Patti, I have done openly my angel, my heart is at last exposed, nothing is hid,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Words written next to a photograph are a meager attempt to explain your desirous nature,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My little angel is surrounded by a sexual aura that fills the air with her mystical stature,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">God\u2019s gift to me was that I was allowed her kiss to signal the barriers of time had fallen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve loved you for over fifty years, my hazel-eyed angel, I have no doubt of my true calling,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My duty is to protect you, my calling is to love you forever, my future is to love you evermore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The past of my life has been about loving you and passing each test of love, and each time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I love you even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat for Patti.<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"22\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">The Angel in My Heart<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each day thoughts of her saturate my mind with nothing but love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No matter what I\u2019m doing at day\u2019s end she is what I am think of,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s been this way since I was seventeen and I want it to remain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You\u2019ve been my escape from earths reality that has induced pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In the darkness of night I can slip away into your arms and run away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When all is wrong you bring the colors of the rainbow in heavens display,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Not a drop of water in sight but I can sit on the dock alone with her until two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When the world is dark gray to black she and her sunshine turn the sky blue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Images of her have traveled my mind each day since I was an innocent man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Like the colors of the rainbow there\u2019s a million different memories to remain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Maybe one day she will see me for the memories of her my heart contains,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A million thoughts of her that saved me when when only death remains,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve danced in her arms when my legs couldn\u2019t stand because of dislocation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019d hold her tight in my imagination and dance through the night in my location,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The smell of waste faded away in my imagination as she\u2019d enter my life station,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Only she, my little angle could lift my soul away from the horror of wars creation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Look away, look away from horror of war that my memories bring to life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s a long, long way from that day yet a memory can place me into the strife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But the last thing I see each day are the hazel eyes of the angel on my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The angel in my heart has held my mind in check when I couldn\u2019t find will to start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The morning sun would come from her soul as she would wake me from sleep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Memories of so much love have placed my heart within hers to hold and keep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One kiss from her lips can resuscitate my mind to dwell in the joys of today,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And with that my heart rejoices, I know this angel in my heart is here to stay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, for Patti, by Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"23\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Gold Dust of You<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019m peering  through the looking glass of past time in hopes that I\u2019ll find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The lost memories and the faded treasures still existing in my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In my every thought I hold your hand and make sure you\u2019re with me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To be rejoined with you is ecstasy even if only an hour you were free,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I must find my faded memories although they may be haze upon glass,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For laced within those remnants are gold dust that fell through the hourglass,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Gold dust may hold little value to some but I differ if it\u2019s gold dust of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For yet another treasure of you I will travel my mind through and through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My little rhymes on paper are how I keep each treasured moment of gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I marvel at times when the words written are so descriptive of the one I hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Days later I\u2019ve seen my words to become amazed at my ability to scribe word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yet I\u2019m not a wordsmith as it\u2019s all inspired by her sweet words that I\u2019ve heard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">\u201cI love you,\u201d whispered softly from her lips prior to passion\u2019s voyage of amour,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I pass into each dimension of eroticism gifted me by her I clamor for more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I am but a drop in the ocean or a microsecond of time\u2019s passage I must concede,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But at this moment I\u2019m engorged to an extreme beyond my existence of need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I hold a secret deep inside of which the origin is hidden far from today,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A trembling occurs inside my structure when she touches me in any way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Sensations of weakness create an awakening that\u2019s impossible to describe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her aroma blends with the magic to create an elixir that I feel a need to imbibe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Inside my mind I\u2019m on my own to find the fogged in treasures buried inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Deep meditation and time bring me to unearth a memory that long ago died,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Whispered words to her in sixty-five state, \u201cI\u2019m leaving but I\u2019ll return for you,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A golden treasure buried far away and extracted that was prophecy come true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It\u2019s the beginning of time as my timeline was nonexistent until I was awakened,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Through a bedroom window into a new dimension of love, to then exit shaken,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I must let all know this is the moment in time of my life birth, my existence today,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Gold prior to this was scarce however since discovery my life is gold in every way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"24\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">1970 Frost Covered Glass<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is a fading thought forever lost,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Did it diminish like window frost,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Return to me my thought please,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is it lost into air like my last sneeze,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let it return, I know it was of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">At last the muse has returned anew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Bring in the cello now played low,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Hear angels harps play notes in flow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your silken gown encapsulates your soul,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To follow the curves shown I\u2019ll pay the toll,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Step forward then back and two right,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Close, oh so close to press you slight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let me waltz into the dreams I dreamed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In your arms it\u2019s not as bad as it seemed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I worry, oh I worry so even when it\u2019s right,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The distance of your mind may be slight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Oh, it\u2019s my fault, I have nothing left,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No longer am I as spry or am I deft,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Improvisation breaks my heart to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The reflecting man of war I see isn\u2019t me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">An angel held in my arms may fly way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So desperate is my plea that she will stay,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Don\u2019t see me my angel but see deep within,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Once I was beautiful before war\u2019s bloody sin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Patti, can you see any good inside of me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each man took aim before his tragedy,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ve tried to pull you close in my dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Bloods lube removes my strength it seems,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Your eyes find disgust in what I have done,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yet you continue to say I\u2019m number one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A little more or a little less should I confess,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If you\u2019ve forgiven what I\u2019ve done is it less,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The frost covered glass is fading fast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Does it mean once gone the dye is cast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I\u2019ll surround you with roses and sing to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Rose petals ground for oil I will do too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thunder has erupted inside my heart for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I love you so much I worry if you knew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The sweet smell of heaven is your smell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It is the elixir, I swear, the taste as when I fell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Into her hands I give the gold I don\u2019t own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">But I will give her the love she hasn\u2019t been shown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Listen, sweet angel, you are someone to hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I can\u2019t give it to you when you are the gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end,   Written December 1970<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"25\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">I Savor Her Kiss<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Slowly I walk a path winding through discards of my life and beyond,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Aft the hour is too late yet fore leaves no answer to give those I&#8217;m fond,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The rock I have become must be softened if that&#8217;s possible in some way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The intense pain has created a barrier of steel where once was man clay,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We are made to send and receive of each other using signals by expression,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Through the years of pains blockage I have allowed through one sensation,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The experience of my country&#8217;s servitude forced upon by draft years ago,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Took away my innocence and ended with more pain than man should know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Perhaps it was ignorance or was it need that locked it deeply inside my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The horrors of we drafted chosen was unknown because America was blind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Many were lost on the streets of asphalt and real estate of dropping value,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Anxious to escape the bonds of the draft many hid from America in plain view,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And I much the same locked it away as I&#8217;ve said that I might forgot it all,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One decade is little time of rest from extremes of pain and a near mental fall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With such force the physical pain returned with an ailment unknown to most,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">An affliction so unusual with unknown back roads reaching deep into its host,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">At first showing I felt I would rupture inside as the swelling pushed out,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thirty five years of age it came in full force as my only release was to shout,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Arriving each time like a stampede of cattle and pain pushing outwardly intense,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Praying it would cease before I would rupture inside was crazy as I was incensed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To those that think I don&#8217;t pray, I am shattered that you could think so little of me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Oh my Lord I have prayed aloud in the crowd and whispered a prayer at a tragedy,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Am I forgotten and down trodden as I cruise the neighborhood of a past dreamscape,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Fight is the word, for one I fight to endure extremes that narcotics bring no escape,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Love&#8217;s desire has created a desire to escape the haze that&#8217;s a veiled pleasantness,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I so desire her touch and beauty in my vision I again feel war&#8217;s gift of loneliness,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Solutions given of physicians create a culture of give me more meds I implore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Then a transplanted genius with tongue of Italiano brotherhood opens the door,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My ears strain to follow his New Jersey speak as his genius explains his gift,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">At last surgery to repair damage of bloods seepage when my spirit begins to lift,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I awaken as I sleep, I float as I am secured, Heaven&#8217;s glow is above my head,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Pain has left and my anatomy feels healed when I realize I may actually be dead,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Movement is everywhere below my feet and I wonder how I see through the roof,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It appears I am deceased as a gift of that intense pain, I&#8217;m no longer bulletproof,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My heart has a sudden sensation of sorrow and a loneliness to an extreme,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The joy of heaven&#8217;s ascent is gone and I see Patti to realize she&#8217;s lost her dream,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">How did she know to come to the door at this time and why is it I can hear her pray,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The crash cart charging into the room is a shock, I see her expression of dismay,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The sorrow I feel is hers as I can feel her sobs oh Lord don&#8217;t let me leave her alone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As quickly as I pray it feels as if something has pulled my feet to return me home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I awaken I remember watching the doctor work feverishly beneath my feet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Three times before I have expired of pain and each my return for she so sweet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From her touch I have soared high above the world because she gave me a kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To me she is a goddess, the queen, my queen, I hope she always remembers this,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For each pain endured I would endure ten more if that is my price for her hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her optimism has become my drug of choice, by her I find reason to stand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Twenty five years have passed since that day I watched the surgeon below,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Pain has been a constant companion, a companion no one should ever know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I savor her kiss each morning as she awakens to bring sunshine into my life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many men of this time have never known such pleasure from their wife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I know each day will fill with wonder in some wonderful way each time she is near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When first I gazed into her hazel eyes a transference of Cupid&#8217;s energy was clear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many things were locked away through the years as I tried to hide the pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To contain the pain I have calloused all emotional release much to my shame,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Do my children know me through and have I given her all the love she is due,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thus I write and rewrite rhymes in a quest for the perfect way to say, I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"26\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">1965 Slip Away, Sweet Patti<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Slip away with me oh beautiful girl from heaven above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You have taken my heart away, now I am forever in love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Because of you I am aware of things I wasn&#8217;t aware of,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Slip away with me because we fit each other like a glove,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The first sweet look was all it took to take away my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I saw you and my knees gave way while I quietly fell apart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The minute we can be together I&#8217;m sure our lives will start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When I&#8217;m near you I want to kiss your lips and every part,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Please believe my words when I tell you of how I feel,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Every word of caring for you is truthful as I&#8217;m very real,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If I had to give my life for a year with you I&#8217;d take the deal,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Slip away, sweet Patti, should I tell you of how I really feel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end. September 1965 by Pat King for Patti Napier<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"27\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">My 68th Birthday Review<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I review my sixty eighth year of living my very charmed life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The joy of life would have been absent but for my beautiful wife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have wings of flight that have taken me to heights unknown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With lift given of her I have risen and with God I have flown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With love she whispered life into my ear as my heart waned,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I expired God gave me a gift to feel how her heart pained,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So deep the pain that I prayed with a sincerity unknown to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I fought to remain the twilight of Heaven was pulling me free,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Time, oh sweet time, if a gift can be given me let it be time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To hold her tenderly while we waltz as we did in my prime,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Hours expire like minutes as I search each for a little more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The prayers I pray are bound with my heart as never before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Increments of my romantic life shows an evolution of heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A tenderness unknown by me was seen by her from the start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">An inspirational photograph was enough to survive the war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Three weeks with her gave me strength I hadn&#8217;t known before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have survived so much, too much to list in but a rhyme,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It was for her I fought and prayed each and every time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Every time she walks into the room I see her as I did before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each time I feel the vitality of youth as I want her even more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Tonight I will hold and be held as I thank God for giving me time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A tear will fall from my angel&#8217;s eyes as she reads this little rhyme,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her meek little smile fools the unknowing of her love for me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I pray to be holding my angel Patti upon my birthday century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">By Pat for Patti  August 19, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"28\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">1969 Fueled By Her Touch<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Look to the sky and absorb the blue but you will never see paradise&#8217; entry,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It&#8217;s a door framed with blue of sky with an air curtain that&#8217;s impossible to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Touch a dream or let a dream touch you to set sail upon a magic vessel of love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Hold her photograph near and pull her to your heart before traveling above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In a vessel made of air you set sail into the sky to discover the secret of love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The &#8220;secret&#8221; if known may settle the world or it may test what you&#8217;re made of,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I love and I have loved so deeply I thought my heart would rupture from pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;m a rare bird I am, I fly the sky fueled by but her touch, I am worn and plain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If truth be known she was thirteen when love erupted within my heart forever,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When told I was too young to love at seventeen and to move on, I replied never,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;m am not a fisherman by trade nor do I want to know other fish in the sea,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Beautiful Patti is my dream girl and upon waking she is the angel I wish to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I have kissed her lips to have my heart set sail and lift me above Mother Earth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The riches of the earth have been granted me to find her in the city of my birth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A big blue sky is forever overhead in my little town of Borger Texas by name,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Two souls perfectly placed through time that they may again unite the same,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My beautiful little town bore the brunt of providing men of steel for the war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Though fear filled every pore and tears of goodbye flowed freely, tears I wore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;ve but one dear friend remaining that was drafted away from all he knew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He carries the remnants of that war deep inside as we all will have to do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I met the enemy head on in a cell of Russian command with brutality abound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In a moment of dark desperation I cried to be free of the pain of being bound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I carry shame that I cried &#8220;mama&#8221; as I faded into the darkness of war&#8217;s travesty,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And worse I cried Patti&#8217;s name also in hope she would once more appear to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Amarillo means yellow for the gold she holds beneath her gold enriched soil,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The city was born of necessity on the flat panhandle of Texas to sell what they toil,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Men of steel were developed upon the plains of wind and sometimes crystal skies,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And we were chosen unfairly it was discovered as another widowed mother cries,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Those of us with the wealth of good fortune returned to the girls with our heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So desperately I prayed that she would welcome me home so we could start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To blue summer skies I returned to the goddess of my dreams since seventeen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Decimated from a long hospital stay I came home although I came home lean,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her eyes excite me so much with but a blink and a sparkle of reflecting moon,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I came &#8220;home&#8221; from war but my home no longer contained my personal room,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">All I needed was a little time to get my feet on the ground and start over again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Most of all, upon the land I so love her touch gave my heart lift, we could begin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat November 1969<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love &nbsp; Volume Eight CONTENTS Written Through a Dense Fog of Illness I Woke From a Dream of a Dream Wings of Flight Gifted Me The Threshold of Love (Ewe Napier Frequency) It\u2019s How I Love You, not \u2018How Do?&#8217;\u201d The Roses I Grew for You (Last Dance) Young Prince, The Princess, and The King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1339","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}