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Love<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Volume Thirteen<\/span><\/h2>\n

CONTENTS<\/span><\/p>\n

So Simple Is My Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Her Image I May Not See, (Yet Her Image as a Vision I Will)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

My Lifetime of Gold<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I Missed That Part Somehow (Angel of Guiding Light)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From The Deep End of Darkness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Seizure of Me (Outside Your Window)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Catalyst<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I Climbed a Wall<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Love Steers The Heart (Greatest Explorer)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

You Are So Pretty<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From The Vessel of Light I Crawled (I Leapt)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Volume Fourteen<\/span><\/h2>\n

CONTENTS<\/span><\/p>\n

Atop a Mountain Crest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Four Minutes at Heaven’s Gate<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Treasured Words Spoken<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Static Bloom and Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Crystal Balls of Layered Hazel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Valentine’s Day 2016 (My Selfish Ways)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Winding Vein of Golden Thread<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Always Mesmerized of You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Written on a Whim<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapters of You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

 
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Volume Thirteen<\/span><\/h2>\n
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So Simple Is My Love<\/span><\/h2>\n

My love will always return to you as I am your moon,<\/span><\/p>\n

From dirt I am made with particles to depart soon,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is made of cells filled with love from you,<\/span><\/p>\n

The basis of my love is in each cell filled through,<\/span><\/p>\n

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So simple is love when true of soul and man’s heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

In my life I am nurtured by your love in my every part,<\/span><\/p>\n

I reach deep within to express the beauty of loving you,<\/span><\/p>\n

It is found in your heart most of all if I’m to tell you true,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Words of gratitude fall so short I doubt they are heard,<\/span><\/p>\n

One day after years of research I hope to find the word,<\/span><\/p>\n

Mixed with gold and blood until rich in color and value,<\/span><\/p>\n

Is how I envision my words printed on tablets to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I would need to have more, much more mixed in,<\/span><\/p>\n

Without red rose petals I would not allow it to begin,<\/span><\/p>\n

The little dark flecks are particles of plum roses too,<\/span><\/p>\n

I would find all the little things I so love about you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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An audible giggle deep within that’s only heard by me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps I’ll find a silica to engrave upon to hear and see,<\/span><\/p>\n

There are so many wonderful things of you I want all to know,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am so desperately sorry for the burdens of me in tow,<\/span><\/p>\n

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So beautiful you stand as though from ancient goddess form,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s true I must admit that I worship you far beyond the norm,<\/span><\/p>\n

As the ringing in my ears fades and my vision leaves me too,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your touch will bring my mind to see why I’m so in love with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you baby<\/span>
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Her Image I May Not See, (Yet Her Image as a Vision I Will)<\/span><\/h2>\n

Her image of vision may no longer be yet her image as a vision will be, <\/span><\/p>\n

A line that came to me is now understood for its when I no longer see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Written long ago as many are to remain unknown until known tragedy, <\/span><\/p>\n

To see her beauty is my greatest joy, soon blindness will take it from me, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A gift given me long ago is the ability to see future events and more, <\/span><\/p>\n

Little boys of seven should not tell of their grandfather’s death before, <\/span><\/p>\n

This ability comes at times to remain unknown, a prediction I must store, <\/span><\/p>\n

Please read this rhyme of my love of Patti, past love of her and so much more, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Let stand my heart alone rather than place thee in deigning stance, <\/span><\/p>\n

Beneath the drop of moonlight glow paradise garden is of dance, <\/span><\/p>\n

Dare say I to such beauty, “oh wondrous angel would you by chance?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Did such sweet answer flow from your lips for me by hap-stance, <\/span><\/p>\n

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From a thought held tight within my heart it is time I reveal, <\/span><\/p>\n

Courage is mine as I have used my fortitude in war’s ordeal, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I tremble inside as if I have been exposed to be unreal, <\/span><\/p>\n

Upon my knees for thee I whisper with intent my love is real, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, the truth of my heart has been exposed to you in view, <\/span><\/p>\n

I hunger deeply for thee and for thy kiss I thirst deeply too, <\/span><\/p>\n

From thine eyes of angel’s colors I find comfort I never knew, <\/span><\/p>\n

The field of view of thine eyes has me so entranced of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Long ago when young of heart I wondered has another known, <\/span><\/p>\n

Has trespass taken place within this field of heart I feel I own, <\/span><\/p>\n

Was injury of your naive heart done as war’s hell I was shown, <\/span><\/p>\n

Did awakening take place of you to find love for me had grown, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As Romeo held Juliette my heart held you dear through ordeal, <\/span><\/p>\n

For so very long before events or war I tried to prove my love as real, <\/span><\/p>\n

Drain my heart of lifeblood if dying of thirst, drink of me as you will, <\/span><\/p>\n

For thee I’ll sacrifice life if but for a second of love of me you feel, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Let stand a tombstone in love’s tribute to honor undying love I feel, <\/span><\/p>\n

Quarry of marbled stone so words will stand time’s wrath to reveal, <\/span><\/p>\n

Pat Hath Love For Patti unknown until this headstone was found real, <\/span><\/p>\n

So many frailties knew this man yet strength of heart seemed surreal, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A heart once broken by neglect healed by you when realized I’m true, <\/span><\/p>\n

Though my return home found no home without it I wouldn’t see you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Frailties given me by draft did not affect my ability to love you through, <\/span><\/p>\n

Not once has doubt of love entertained my mind I must tell you this true, <\/span><\/p>\n

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We are the king and beautiful queen of the Texas Panhandle Lore, <\/span><\/p>\n

Those of curious nature ask how I survive so much, non ask what for, <\/span><\/p>\n

What for is seen in you, what for is for you, more now than ever before, <\/span><\/p>\n

Once love of me was revealed for you I would endure so much more, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The first heartbeat after Cupid’s reveal of you felt of life I never knew, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your image entered every cell of my being along with love for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

First sight love is real yet I felt I had fought for my ladies hand in oh two, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fifteen oh two I should say yet memories of lifetimes past came in view, <\/span><\/p>\n

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We are more than two falling in love, a reunion of hearts past took place,<\/span><\/p>\n

As God bears witness I swear each life you have had the same lovely face, <\/span><\/p>\n

To awaken a sleeping soul the jolt must be felt of heart to give chase, <\/span><\/p>\n

May I stand in fires searing pain if I speak untruth from my aging face, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Beneath the skies of Texas the masquerade of hearts ceased to be, <\/span><\/p>\n

From tender lips of red came a kiss that jolted time’s memories free, <\/span><\/p>\n

Memories passed from lifetimes carried within the soul we can’t see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Though I may lose you to sands of time I will find you again in eternity, <\/span><\/p>\n

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My left hand may bear a cane to stand while the other cane is of white, <\/span><\/p>\n

An image of you is within my heart, know this my angel of morning light, <\/span><\/p>\n

Centuries have embossed your image into my mind to be held every night, <\/span><\/p>\n

You’ve watched me die by swordsmanship hand and held me oh so tight, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Each time I vowed my love until eternities passing, I vowed love for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

True of heart I remember my bride’s delight of birds singing in full view, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a small house made of gathered stacked stone and thatched roof too, <\/span><\/p>\n

Built for you with my hands before the Crusades took me far from you, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Years passed before a triumphant return to a son I never knew, <\/span><\/p>\n

But most of all a one armed knight returned as he had promised to, <\/span><\/p>\n

More memories I have such as the North Carolina Ice House in twenty two, <\/span><\/p>\n

Though hard to believe I have centuries of experience loving you.<\/span><\/p>\n

For thine heart I am true. The end.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Patti, by Pat<\/span>
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My Lifetime of Gold<\/span><\/h2>\n

It was a silent night that I felt wholly to be in love with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

All was calm and the moon brightened the night sky to blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

A sensation felt this deeply must be of Heaven if felt true,<\/span><\/p>\n

Paradise is but your essence as to breathe in fills me through,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have prayed prayers in desperation to feel your kiss at last,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I have prayed desperately as I feared time moved too fast,<\/span><\/p>\n

A desperate prayer brought by feeling time’s line had been cast,<\/span><\/p>\n

I must absorb this moment as I hold your tender hand at last,<\/span><\/p>\n

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You are the air my lungs desire if air from yonder garden come,<\/span><\/p>\n

If your exhale has placed your essence of particle delight some,<\/span><\/p>\n

Breathe deep I will and treasure it until my lungs no longer hold,<\/span><\/p>\n

For you, you sweet young angel are to be my lifetime of gold.<\/span>
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I Missed That Part Somehow (Angel of Guiding Light)<\/span><\/h2>\n

The morning sun shines upon you as if a ceremony of life,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each morning when I see you I give thanks you are my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n

Twilight brings pause as I reflect on my day with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

With each day’s passage I realize I’m closer to my due,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As my time withers to become past tense it is so very true,<\/span><\/p>\n

I would have no existence or reality without love from you,<\/span><\/p>\n

To love someone brings another dimension when new found,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet half a century of loving you brings daily sensations abound,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Absence of light blanketed by a twinkling sky is our favorite night,<\/span><\/p>\n

Together we have basked in diamonds of the sky until first light,<\/span><\/p>\n

As morning chases darkness at horizons edge new light is found,<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty of morning angels is highlighted by new light around,<\/span><\/p>\n

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A silhouette of angel is formed with the morning sky background,<\/span><\/p>\n

I trace each line in my mind as my fingers once did in war’s surround,<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no change but then angels of morning light are born of this,<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhaustion has captured my frame but I have need of one more kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As if every ounce of energy I’ve known is within your lips I awaken,<\/span><\/p>\n

Into the depth of love I leap by a gaze into your eyes yet I am shaken,<\/span><\/p>\n

Teardrops trace my leathered face as I realize this will soon be taken,<\/span><\/p>\n

Desperately my mind tries to capture a memory as my heart is broken,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I feel a sob beneath your chest as you’ve read my thought in bond,<\/span><\/p>\n

Realize my angel that a night with you unseen is still a gift beyond,<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond that of a teen fantasizing of love from my angel of dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will still see the perimeters of morning light and feel sunbeams,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The unseeing may feel moonlight beams unknown to those that see,<\/span><\/p>\n

I close my eyes to absorb your essence each night as you come to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

God’s hand can heal my eyes as he touched my heart and hands too,<\/span><\/p>\n

I pray His touch to land upon my meager eyes that I may still see you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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For you are my hidden treasure that I have survived to behold,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are my wonder of the heavens or said true my only gold,<\/span><\/p>\n

Said before I am but rust tied to you by rust found in your eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

As daylight fades to darkness so shall it be what my vision denies,<\/span><\/p>\n

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But yet I will treasure those moments for in your hold I am much more,<\/span><\/p>\n

In darkness we bond, perhaps passion we find at night will arrive as before,<\/span><\/p>\n

My memory of treasures are mostly of emotion, kisses, and deep desire,<\/span><\/p>\n

From within my heart came courage to face the enemies wrath so dire,<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the gold in my hold I will seek support to blaze another trail,<\/span><\/p>\n

As rust fails beyond its last stand I pray gold to support me if I fail,<\/span><\/p>\n

But know from the courage once known to be mine more is found,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the man so desirous of you, what remains wants to be around,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am forgiven for war’s burdens that tainted my soul for too long,<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgiving my tormentors last year was so hard for such a wrong,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am free of heart and clean of spirit at last then this comes along,<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Angel of Morning Light you will find rust to be very strong,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Though you may lead I am your protector and vow my last breath yours,<\/span><\/p>\n

My courage can be found to stand at sinister’s door for your love procures,<\/span><\/p>\n

With your little hand in mine the Angel of Morning Light transforms to be,<\/span><\/p>\n

To be the Angel of Guiding Light, my guiding light so I may continue to see,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I fear no evil nor shall peril bring cowardliness as courage is in my hand,<\/span><\/p>\n

Our home is my heaven, your essence is my nourishment to stand,<\/span><\/p>\n

Place tender a kiss upon my lips and forward I shall go into the murk,<\/span><\/p>\n

Into the darkness of daylight I shall wander fearing not what may lurk,<\/span><\/p>\n

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An artist’s attempt to depict your beauty fell short once not long ago,<\/span><\/p>\n

He said to me it’s impossible for a painting to depict an angel’s glow,<\/span><\/p>\n

The Angel of Light has been here all along and I celebrate it now,<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I love everything you and of you, I missed that part somehow.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, for Patti by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you baby, I love you so very much and I thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will get through this.<\/span>
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From The Deep End of Darkness<\/span><\/h2>\n

My mind falls off my train of thought to what I’ve been through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each moment since seventeen has been produced of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

A thought of happiness followed by teardrops of salty rain,<\/span><\/p>\n

Are parts of the biology process happening inside my brain,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seldom do I write solely of me without you deep inside of me,<\/span><\/p>\n

As a teen on a date, guilt filled my mind before a kiss could be,<\/span><\/p>\n

An image of you appeared in my mind telling me to be chaste,<\/span><\/p>\n

Testosterone and desire would push my curiosity with haste,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each date was a cycle of this until every girl was expelled soon,<\/span><\/p>\n

Long flowing hair with beautiful eyes but a hair could be doom,<\/span><\/p>\n

The slightest imperfection grew so that a hair appeared a beard,<\/span><\/p>\n

I truly believe it was destiny guiding a vessel that was not steered,<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the deep end of darkness to the glories of sunshine I walked,<\/span><\/p>\n

And soon it was with the beautiful girl of my dreams I would talk,<\/span><\/p>\n

My words so true of heart would fall upon doubting ears too long,<\/span><\/p>\n

In darkness she did not believe but in darkness it seemed a song,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Soon our kisses under moonlight beams brought uniting of emotions,<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotions, dreams and moonlight brought destiny into fluid motion,<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotions bring fluid motions when united in heart, soul, and mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

From the deep end of darkness we came to light no longer blind,<\/span><\/p>\n

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With you near I knew my way and never doubted our love would grow,<\/span><\/p>\n

A kiss of ignition means but one thing and it’s of your love I know,<\/span><\/p>\n

Together into eternity and together for thirty years more we will stand,<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you beautiful angel, come walk with me and hold my hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span>
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The Seizure of Me (Outside Your Window)<\/span><\/h2>\n

My mind wants to go along but my body can’t manage the task,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each part struggling to keep up as my brain continues to ask,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a cross to bear unearthed by times advance upon my frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

It took too long to realize that life wasn’t a continual game,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I feel an aura of light surrounding my mind as I’m taken into night,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a tunnel of darkness surrounded by lightening and flashing light,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pain so extreme most can’t stand departs my body ceasing to be,<\/span><\/p>\n

I look to you longingly without movement hoping you’ll save me,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Soon they’ll call me out, these Angels of the night to collect,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I approach the tunnel of light I will no doubt have regret,<\/span><\/p>\n

I look into the darkness and find the memories that seem alive,<\/span><\/p>\n

From a tunnel of love I focus on nineteen hundred sixty five,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Outside a window I perch in wait as I pray you’ll love me someday,<\/span><\/p>\n

Take this as you wish, I was obsessed in a cloud trying to find a way,<\/span><\/p>\n

When first I saw you I hid in the darkness trying to find a view,<\/span><\/p>\n

A whole night through before leaving I sat there in thought of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Memories are flowing through my mind as if flash cards to test,<\/span><\/p>\n

To test my heart as each memory contains images rated the best,<\/span><\/p>\n

Stretching my reach to retrieve a particle of you or just a fallen hair,<\/span><\/p>\n

Vaults me forward in time planning to build a lake home not there,<\/span><\/p>\n

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You are there encouraging me ignorant to the worst me I’ve known,<\/span><\/p>\n

Forever at my side making me better than the man you were shown,<\/span><\/p>\n

You were there, flowing hair, working far away and driving every day,<\/span><\/p>\n

My brain still riddled with virus of mosquito bite left me in dismay,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reminders break through of Oklahoma stress with your family clan,<\/span><\/p>\n

I stop painful images in flow in this mystery journey of me the man,<\/span><\/p>\n

In a surprise to me I have passed a test of time by only wanting good,<\/span><\/p>\n

Precious bricks of gold contain flaws as does the most precious wood,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I yell to the purveyors of this journey I’m on please let it rain down,<\/span><\/p>\n

Rain down precious memories of her, flood me into her surround,<\/span><\/p>\n

Submissive I’ll be if I must review bad to see more good of her,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sad memories of her are precious in that I was within her coffer,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Any place at all is what my heart says in response to the flood,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunshine shines in mention of your name to dry tear’s made mud,<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you heard, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,<\/span><\/p>\n

She is my intervention, every good intention, my prevention for sure,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sitting in the snow in a place so very long ago I join me in misery,<\/span><\/p>\n

A week before Christmas hidden in white of night solving a mystery,<\/span><\/p>\n

And it shall remain unknown as my lips are sealed for being there,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sent there on a mission of hide n seek for my uncle with white hair,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beautiful lights twinkle to light a township older than our country is,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m holding a photograph of you to my chest wondering if love still lives,<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t want to let go, I hold it tight you know, oh how I love you so,<\/span><\/p>\n

Wake up you say to me, “wake up Pat” shouting “it’s me don’t you know”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The mystery journey ceases to be and will be a victim of amnesia soon,<\/span><\/p>\n

I awaken to no knowledge of anything without a memory in a room,<\/span><\/p>\n

“You’ve had a seizure baby” a stranger says, “your name is Pat”<\/span><\/p>\n

A stranger helping me with my name and where she says I’m at,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is truth coming from the mouth of this angel I see speaking to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pain is unknown to me as I remember me feeling as good as I can be,<\/span><\/p>\n

As the brain resets doctors say, pain hasn’t made the trip to the brain,<\/span><\/p>\n

With thunder and a war of atomic magnitude pain comes down like rain,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Remembering not remembering is a mystery to amnesia experts everywhere,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pain is the catalyst that awakens my struggling brain to what it must bear,<\/span><\/p>\n

My breath seems to depart my lungs as my liver’s pain delivers a blow,<\/span><\/p>\n

My kidney stones pale compared to my liver, the greatest pain I know,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once again, I’m outside your window, waiting for you to come back to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

As memories of time and distance become linear I can finally see,<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavy pain rains down on me but gratefully I awaken held by you,<\/span><\/p>\n

No one really knows, but I feel you know what I’m going through.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat. Thank you baby for being there always.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you<\/span>
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Catalyst<\/span><\/h2>\n

Is all I have left but an empty dream to be led into darkness,<\/span><\/p>\n

Or perhaps an opaque world with perimeters of what I miss,<\/span><\/p>\n

If I lay here an hour or two will I awaken to the loss of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

All I am is what I see in you and the world within your view,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As time sheds waste of past is there something unlearned,<\/span><\/p>\n

Is something hidden in wrath’s message that I haven’t learned,<\/span><\/p>\n

To learn compassion I was submerged in pain that I may know,<\/span><\/p>\n

We grow each time compassion and empathy is allowed show,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Submerged in pain for thirty years was it a struggle of worth,<\/span><\/p>\n

A world opaque or blind is my future to remain upon this earth,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I come from the submerged I have another lesson to learn,<\/span><\/p>\n

Optimism has been washed away in another life lesson burn,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is this a crossroad of reflection or simply a choice in movement,<\/span><\/p>\n

Have I have failed so extreme that this is a message Karma sent,<\/span><\/p>\n

My failings if seen by me are so extreme that mountains pale,<\/span><\/p>\n

Is enormity a common thread of thought when men do fail,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Absent a fountain of needed nourishment rich of you I would die,<\/span><\/p>\n

As my brain swelled from virus it found release through my eye,<\/span><\/p>\n

Was this the timer that sat in wait for the moment it was to be used,<\/span><\/p>\n

Had I done better is it something my guardians could have refused,<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is a hand that guides my struggles yet too often I ignore,<\/span><\/p>\n

I tried to endure yet I’m filled with shame for weakness to implore,<\/span><\/p>\n

In my weakest moment I cried “mama” but worst I said “your” name,<\/span><\/p>\n

Similar to mine I’m blessed they didn’t realize my deepest shame,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our enemy would have used you or worst abused you to their gain,<\/span><\/p>\n

For that I have deserved most anything to fall upon my worn frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

An abyss filled with my darkest failings would remain forever dark,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve earned my plight perhaps but without you, life would be stark,<\/span><\/p>\n

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For over six years I’ve had at least twenty five surgeries to endure,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I forced health and strength’s return I felt I had become sure,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words within my rhymes tell of my pleasure to be entranced in you,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I locked into your beautiful eyes all the gifts of life came through,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don’t cry now, stop for a moment and realize I will hold you instead,<\/span><\/p>\n

Visions of you will still be there, alive and young, flowing in my head,<\/span><\/p>\n

To be held will feel the same and perhaps the outer edges I’ll see,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m so sorry that it seems each deep gaze brings reality home to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s impossible now to have that long loving gaze without complexity,<\/span><\/p>\n

With each gaze I judge without fail how much harder it is to see,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s just lay here and hold each other, it’s where we both belong,<\/span><\/p>\n

Softly place a kiss upon my eyelids and I’ll feel nothing is wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then end, by Pat. I love you baby<\/span>
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I Climbed a Wall<\/span><\/h2>\n

I climbed a wall so tall that was built of deceit for many years,<\/span><\/p>\n

Too many agents of distrust conspired to fuel my many fears,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I searched for a friendly face I found they designed the wall,<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh my Lord what have I done in blindness to bring my own fall,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I went to sleep but a year ago to find an old man returning my stare,<\/span><\/p>\n

So startled I was to find this image of me with white silver hair,<\/span><\/p>\n

Come and see me if you must but a label or warning must be said,<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll think I’m insane when I tell you of the life I remember in my head,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have dreamed of angels, war, deceit, children, grandchildren and more,<\/span><\/p>\n

So many things happened to me it’s unbelievable, especially the war,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me show you the photograph that is my only piece of gold,<\/span><\/p>\n

So many nights I slept with my treasured photo tightly in my hold,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My tale of life will tell a tale of love with never a bad word spoken of her,<\/span><\/p>\n

Do Angels have failings you wonder? I have no ill words of her to offer,<\/span><\/p>\n

A bullet once pierced my heart because of her yet without her I die,<\/span><\/p>\n

I endured a world so lonely during war that yes, I’d break down and cry,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Without a penny to my name and so weary of war I endured protester’s rant,<\/span><\/p>\n

Dressed in uniform a church member answered my request for a ride with I can’t,<\/span><\/p>\n

Was it an angel of mercy that took a weary damaged soldier home that night,<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe it to be true as I walked and prayed to God I held her picture tight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My life is poetry in verse and placed upon a website for all to read,<\/span><\/p>\n

It is written for her, I want all the world to know she fulfilled every need,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve had too many miracles to write of but I will attempt to do so soon,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each and everyone is interlaced in her, her prayers avoided doom,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another burden had come to bear and with her I will endure,<\/span><\/p>\n

Too many times I’ve been told of death with no possible cure,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet darkness seems to scare me more so I pray she will lead the way,<\/span><\/p>\n

And someday in darkness she will guide me on my parting day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat<\/span>
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\nLove Steers The Heart (Greatest Explorer)<\/span><\/h2>\n

Love steers the heart through uncharted waters not explored before,<\/span><\/p>\n

Across waves of turmoil to be thrown about before coming ashore,<\/span><\/p>\n

Within each soul is a desire to seek or to be sought by he who seeks,<\/span><\/p>\n

To find or to be found ignites exuberant transitions that never peaks,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Love is as vast as the darkness of space lit by bursts of loves ignition,<\/span><\/p>\n

Appearing as stars so unique it has identity that deserves recognition,<\/span><\/p>\n

Some so enormous that sectors of space are brightly lit for eternity,<\/span><\/p>\n

Wondrous beauty is found within creation that astronomers often see,<\/span><\/p>\n

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When wondrous beauty is found those in awe desire to remain,<\/span><\/p>\n

As they gasp in awe they feel too small in mind, stature, and frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw the beauty of God’s creation and awkwardly asked her name,<\/span><\/p>\n

At that moment a feeling of need filled my heart to forever remain,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The vastness of space if love could envelop a heart for evermore,<\/span><\/p>\n

Lovers of all ages are soon absorbed into the vastness to explore,<\/span><\/p>\n

Exploring emotions, along with feelings of touch, kisses and more,<\/span><\/p>\n

Like explorers of space they want to know more than ever before,<\/span><\/p>\n

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And I feel as if I am the greatest explorer of the enormity of love,<\/span><\/p>\n

From a kiss long ago I soared into the vastness of the heavens above,<\/span><\/p>\n

And today I soar as never before with no desire to rest or curb the flow,<\/span><\/p>\n

She gives me reason to soar and to learn everything of her before I go,<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the wings of love I fly fueled by the wondrous beauty so unique,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I pull her near to explore and find the unknown I still grow week,<\/span><\/p>\n

Kisses of her lips ignite my soul more today than they did yesterday,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the greatest explorer man has known, she makes me feel that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span>
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\n

You Are So Pretty<\/span><\/h2>\n

“You are so pretty,” it was said far too often by me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Like a child with his wanted gift for everyone to see,<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgive him for saying far too often you’re so pretty,<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder how many wives endure such a tragedy,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the teen so overwhelmed with a girl,<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotions never known, overtake him in a whirl,<\/span><\/p>\n

So beautiful was her flowing hair without curl,<\/span><\/p>\n

Aspiring to give her treasures of gold and pearl,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To calm her displeasure he bit his lip into silence,<\/span><\/p>\n

With caution of word he would fear to say so hence,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet every day he said “you are beautiful” without pretense,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words escaped his mouth and leapt his censor fence,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the little girl without anything but dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n

Without dreams things may be worse than it seems,<\/span><\/p>\n

A dream is hope for something better downstream,<\/span><\/p>\n

When she accomplishes that dream, see her beam,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To think his own mouth he would have to restrain,<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t his mouth but such beauty was to blame,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words would escape as if impossible to contain,<\/span><\/p>\n

Beautiful, pretty, gorgeous, so many words pertain,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the man alone because of words unspoken,<\/span><\/p>\n

If only the courage came would he be so broken,<\/span><\/p>\n

Wishing he had said those words instead of chokin’,<\/span><\/p>\n

His life wasted away like a discarded wood token,<\/span><\/p>\n

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He saw her in dreams long ago most every night,<\/span><\/p>\n

When at war, as he slept, he held her photo tight,<\/span><\/p>\n

After enduring so much, return acclimation was a fight,<\/span><\/p>\n

He asked why fight for anti-America protester’s right,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the man still overwhelmed with the girl,<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotions discovered still overwhelm him in a whirl,<\/span><\/p>\n

So beautiful is her long flowing hair without curl,<\/span><\/p>\n

He aspires to give her treasures of gold and pearl,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long hours alone magnified how he had felt while home,<\/span><\/p>\n

The anxiety of danger and near death while being alone,<\/span><\/p>\n

Praying that she wouldn’t forget him and start to roam,<\/span><\/p>\n

It pulls heavily on tormented hearts that feel so alone,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine two teens whose eyes lock more than a glance,<\/span><\/p>\n

Was fate at work or did they truly meet there by chance,<\/span><\/p>\n

Courage came to announce his love one night at a dance,<\/span><\/p>\n

And she wanting his words but departed before his chance,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once lips and hearts unite even if brief true love is known,<\/span><\/p>\n

With no doubt in his heart he departs before love is shown,<\/span><\/p>\n

Regret for not saying so was another burden of war sewn,<\/span><\/p>\n

Letters written with no response don’t quell love that has grown,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the soldier so grateful to survive,<\/span><\/p>\n

Discharged as damaged and lucky to be alive,<\/span><\/p>\n

Grateful it happened in hope the romance will revive,<\/span><\/p>\n

A two minute visit is enough to keep the flame alive,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Working hard after his discharge and buying a car,<\/span><\/p>\n

By design he returns instead of wishing upon a star,<\/span><\/p>\n

She changed an un-responsible man to do the best he can,<\/span><\/p>\n

The war killed his innocence and returned a damaged man,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the grown girl without anything but dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n

Without dreams things may be worse than it seems,<\/span><\/p>\n

A dream is hope for something better downstream,<\/span><\/p>\n

When she accomplishes that dream, she will beam,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the beautiful girl with a fulfilled improbable dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

With that dream becoming a reality she is now agleam,<\/span><\/p>\n

A secret dream in hopes of something better downstream,<\/span><\/p>\n

Departing the church arm in arm it’s no longer a dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

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So high above reality with the past year alive in his head,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking he wouldn’t survive yet he came home alive instead,<\/span><\/p>\n

He felt her hand in his instead of a photo as bullets flew overhead,<\/span><\/p>\n

Her beauty overwhelmed him as he held her in their lovers bed,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the soldier that survived loneliness, torture, and more,<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming home to the girl that loved him as much as before,<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine him married to her with stored emotions of war,<\/span><\/p>\n

His heart aflame with love for her, so many feelings in store,<\/span><\/p>\n

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“You are beautiful,” he says, far too often than a normal man would,<\/span><\/p>\n

Would anyone understand his feelings if in his shoes they stood,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen in my life,<\/span><\/p>\n

There is none second to you, I am blessed to have you as my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Imagine his dismay after a few months had gone by,<\/span><\/p>\n

“You say I’m beautiful far too much, can I ask you why?”<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s because I’m in disbelief after all I’ve been through,<\/span><\/p>\n

His mind speaks loud with no word said, “I love you,”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Realizing her feelings and how imbalanced his words were he replied,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are wonderful through and through no doubt, it cannot be denied,<\/span><\/p>\n

Adding, “I love each moment with you even hearing your giggle inside,”<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully tonight, forty-five years later, my love for you cannot be denied.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

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From The Vessel of Light I Crawled (I Leapt)<\/span><\/h2>\n

I wake each morning in search of where you are, <\/span><\/p>\n

My dreams it seems has taken me to a far away star, <\/span><\/p>\n

Or is reality my existence in a world beyond bazaar, <\/span><\/p>\n

Dream states are non-real or perhaps they really are, <\/span><\/p>\n

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My eyes are deceiving me,” I think, in this world I’m in, <\/span><\/p>\n

For there at my side is you, if so, let my life here begin, <\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t wake me, I scream out to anyone that is within, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then with startling clarity I realize I’m the one I’m in, <\/span><\/p>\n

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To begin could be a leap forward or it can be a slow toe, <\/span><\/p>\n

Inched forward with caution as if, it’s afraid to move slow, <\/span><\/p>\n

If I wake from a dream state to find you then I will know, <\/span><\/p>\n

The world I seek is closer to real as long as in it, you show, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But to awaken without you near brings dreamt fear, <\/span><\/p>\n

Dreamt fear can be so real that it brings death near, <\/span><\/p>\n

However if you are anywhere near I hope I see you clear, <\/span><\/p>\n

And if you whisper bring close your lips that I may hear,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To explain my life dream is to explain me as I am today, <\/span><\/p>\n

A dream to me is not a dream if you are here to stay, <\/span><\/p>\n

No matter if a dream or reality you’ll remain if my way, <\/span><\/p>\n

My existence, my life, if labored is worth the dues I pay, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Decay of life is now within my frame to forever remain, <\/span><\/p>\n

For you, I will endure anything if but another moment I gain, <\/span><\/p>\n

A bolt of lightening was the flash of light used to ingrain,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your image so beautiful is more than a memory in my brain, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Perhaps you left dreams to become the girl of my dreams, <\/span><\/p>\n

Since I was but a small boy you’ve forever been there it seems, <\/span><\/p>\n

Once in a dream I met you, then upon a vessel of light beams, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then to crawl through the opening of reality to exit my dreams, <\/span><\/p>\n

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From the vessel of light I crawled through what wasn’t a door, <\/span><\/p>\n

It could not be more right as there I stood on the second floor, <\/span><\/p>\n

Though we couldn’t unite at that time we belonged forevermore, <\/span><\/p>\n

I embraced love and lept into love with you, the one I so adore. <\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti, my sweet angel, my wife.<\/span>
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Volume Fourteen<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Atop a Mountain Crest<\/span><\/h2>\n

I have witnessed the power of love first hand as it changed a man,<\/span><\/p>\n

From a boy with dreams of splendor into a man with a lifetime plan,<\/span><\/p>\n

It was witnessed by those that knew the boy before the love change,<\/span><\/p>\n

Without the explanation of her love it would sound so very strange,<\/span><\/p>\n

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If love had pigment that could be seen every molecule would tint,<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine me as I am now but with a glowing pink hue heaven sent,<\/span><\/p>\n

A pink glow accented with white that appears a halo to so many,<\/span><\/p>\n

My penetrated color of love’s pink tint is a gift given me by Patti,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I knew long ago that love’s wavelength had penetrated me through,<\/span><\/p>\n

There are so many along the way that I’ve told of the wonders of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

I climbed a mountain long ago in hope the peak had a better view,<\/span><\/p>\n

Atop a mountain crest far away I gave the world a photo of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My nugget of gold, my treasured gift, the rarest of world’s gem,<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? I cannot answer, it was a need that came upon me as a whim,<\/span><\/p>\n

Inspired by the magnificence of beauty in the Swiss Alps surround,<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps I needed the world to see the angel my arms were around,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My greed said don’t leave it there yet the good said for me to share,<\/span><\/p>\n

I knew you’d love what I was seeing so I hid your photo with care,<\/span><\/p>\n

A stream that formed of melting snow or more of a blanket of white,<\/span><\/p>\n

With love I pulled you close to me and for an hour I held you tight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was beautiful Patti, where white of snow met grass so green,<\/span><\/p>\n

The ponds that formed from beaver’s dams created a world unseen,<\/span><\/p>\n

Flowers of every color and hue formed pockets of color to be seen,<\/span><\/p>\n

I must have been there before with you in a wonderful love dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

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If only I could find that mountain to retrieve the treasure I left behind,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I know if the photograph was found, it is a treasured favorite find,<\/span><\/p>\n

Someday some soul may recognize the beautiful angel with long hair,<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I found heaven that day, that’s why I left my angel’s photo there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you baby<\/span><\/p>\n

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Four Minutes at Heaven’s Gate<\/span><\/h2>\n

I stood at the gates of Eden with an angel beckoning me through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the clouds of paradise I caught a quick glimpse of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pray for her I begged, “she needs me more than you can know,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Oh it’s more than YOU know, she is an angel that loves you so,”<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Enter into her heart and persona to feel her unconditional love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly I felt the anguish of a thousand broken hearts from above,<\/span><\/p>\n

The world I knew was falling apart and I struggled for another breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

Crash carts and nurses ran through doors that symbolized my death,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fear I had never felt before coursed through my veins over me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Over me? I thought, what is wrong with me that I couldn’t see,<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh how I love her, but quite suddenly I realized it ran both ways,<\/span><\/p>\n

The things I had done to survive the war allowed me more days,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Her photograph I kept near my heart after our summer goodbye,<\/span><\/p>\n

Extreme loneliness for over a year brought my eyes to often cry,<\/span><\/p>\n

The hardships of drafted men at war is only known by those boys,<\/span><\/p>\n

Boys forced to become men using the war machine’s deathly toys,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each night I held her photo as I prayed she would wait a year or two,<\/span><\/p>\n

Through dark of night I’d watch the stars hoping she was looking too,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each beat of my heart seemed to increase my love tenfold or more,<\/span><\/p>\n

With the first touching of our lips my mind knew what I was living for,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Against all odd we grew our love each time our eyes could meet,<\/span><\/p>\n

A small ember fanned with devotion created enough of love’s heat,<\/span><\/p>\n

To grow our love despite obstacles of meddling and temptation,<\/span><\/p>\n

Our love grew in spite of war’s separation to never know stagnation,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The sacrament of Holy Matrimony brought grace to our eternal bond,<\/span><\/p>\n

We two souls entered into marriage with enough love to go beyond,<\/span><\/p>\n

There was never a doubt that I was there to be her protector for life,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a mysterious man of extended time still deeply in love with my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each day I’ve loved her more as her internal beauty overwhelmed me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Every time her perfection overwhelms my soul I am grateful that I can see,<\/span><\/p>\n

No one can understand but me how her lack of vanity makes it more so,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet time has been kind to her and age has brought with it a subtle glow,<\/span><\/p>\n

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They say I took for granted how much that little girl was in love with me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me be truthful now, I know my worth very well so how could it be,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet here I stand, with her emotions of lost love coursing through my veins,<\/span><\/p>\n

Her unconditional love is that of one willing to die so the spouse gains,<\/span><\/p>\n

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At heaven’s gate a puddle must exist as through me her teardrops fell,<\/span><\/p>\n

The pain of separation for over a year after being drafted into war’s hell,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pales in comparison to what my little girl was feeling as I lay dying nearby,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, “my little girl” is the cuddle name given her by this fortunate guy,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hazel-eyed angel with tears of anguish falling from her eyes is torture,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no doubt if she passed away while I survived I’d have no closure,<\/span><\/p>\n

When I could bear no more I sobbed desperately and started to pray,<\/span><\/p>\n

Please dear angel of God, ask our Lord that I be allowed NOT to stay,<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Sacrificing eternal salvation is a risk however God gave you free will,”<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is eternally tied to her such as flowing water is never still,<\/span><\/p>\n

Be still my beating heart I’ve often said as her entrance took my breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I felt the hands of life pull my soul into my body to halt death,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time suddenly slowed to nearly still as I turned to look through the wall,<\/span><\/p>\n

Standing near the door she sobbed as each person ran by trying to stall,<\/span><\/p>\n

Her beautiful eyes in search of a promising look from a stranger passing by,<\/span><\/p>\n

When out came the words she so needed, “we won’t let your husband die,”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Please reach out to her and comfort her breaking heart if you will,<\/span><\/p>\n

Then motion returned as suddenly as time stood that moment still,<\/span><\/p>\n

Comfort came to my soul as I felt the physical pain my worn body knew,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hazel-Eyed Angel, my little girl dear, I left paradise to be here, I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span>
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Treasured Words Spoken<\/span><\/h2>\n

I’ve spoken treasured words to you that felt as if laden in gold,<\/span><\/p>\n

From my heart words came as I released them from my hold,<\/span><\/p>\n

Some words so precious to have never been released or told,<\/span><\/p>\n

These words of unsolicited need are often words to behold,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Men of endurance mine for gold and precious metals to the end,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is an enduring flame rekindled by but a moment to spend,<\/span><\/p>\n

A glance from your beautiful eyes create words of love I must send,<\/span><\/p>\n

I mine precious words from my heart, so precise none are pretend,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Truly I have labored for an hour to describe with a perfect word,<\/span><\/p>\n

I would vault into the sky from a mountain peak for it to be heard,<\/span><\/p>\n

Shouting into the wind my little words of love, borders on absurd,<\/span><\/p>\n

But from the miracle of dreams my songs and flight are of a bird,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The heart controls more than the mind yet doctors preach I’m wrong,<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason and science from study proves my reasoning doesn’t belong,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet place love within each pulse of a man’s heart to make him strong,<\/span><\/p>\n

His health improves and thoughts of love from the heart brings song,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To assist the mind and heart there are blessings known as emotions,<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotions may bring pain yet they prevent us from acting on a notion,<\/span><\/p>\n

Love’s emotion has created masterpieces crafted by minds in motion,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus the words I write this day are from love and my eternal devotion,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once I was lost so long ago when returning from battle so fatigued,<\/span><\/p>\n

No words were delivered to me in desperate times of soldier’s need,<\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow I grew from this and my love’s “metal” tested to proceed,<\/span><\/p>\n

Faith in you and our kiss of pained departure was love enough to heed,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Words so simple whispered in my ear carried me through each day,<\/span><\/p>\n

Return to me, promise! Played in my head when danger came my way,<\/span><\/p>\n

They are but words yet our hearts need such little words and to pray,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words written for you sometimes flow like songbirds sing while at play,<\/span><\/p>\n

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At times I want to write words so sensational no other person has said,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words crafted by wordsmiths of fame but written just for you instead,<\/span><\/p>\n

If only I could speak a word laden with jewels for a crown on your head,<\/span><\/p>\n

But my spoken words are made of air so I must say, “I love you”, instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span>
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Static Bloom and Love<\/span><\/h2>\n

My angel sleeps tonight on a bed of vapor in heaven above,<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter the location I know her heart is filled with love, <\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping safe our love as sleep brings dreams of wonder,<\/span><\/p>\n

This night she dreams of a dance hall rescue in thunder,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The static bloom of lightning strikes brings explosive sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

Like a moon flower maturing to bud, suddenly blooms abound,<\/span><\/p>\n

Roots represent numerous lightning forks going to ground,<\/span><\/p>\n

When lightning is born of static it does so with great sound,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Through bouncers and policemen her hero made way to her, <\/span><\/p>\n

Word had come to her husband that his wife was in grave danger, <\/span><\/p>\n

While in the ladies’ restroom a woman was attacked by a stranger,<\/span><\/p>\n

Into the fray he went for her, not allowing anyone to endanger,<\/span><\/p>\n

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And rescue her he did knocking out five bouncers and a cop, <\/span><\/p>\n

To get to the one he loved there was nothing to make him stop, <\/span><\/p>\n

As she heard him fighting through she felt enough pride to pop, <\/span><\/p>\n

For me, she thought, for me he would die before he would stop,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As lightning struck all around his hazel-eyed angel slept happily, <\/span><\/p>\n

Thunder and flashes in the night didn’t wake the sleeping beauty,<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps in dream states our love opens our eyes allowing us to see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Dreams often mirror life yet others are wishes of how it could be,<\/span><\/p>\n

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He brought her through then assaulted the assailant in a quick turnabout, <\/span><\/p>\n

How ironic! One man trying to kill his wife as another fights to get his out,<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe dreams are placed in our minds to get a love message through,<\/span><\/p>\n

It explains why upon waking you said, “my hero, I’m so in love with you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crystal Balls of Layered Hazel<\/span><\/h2>\n

Anything I do to see your smile is a worthwhile task,<\/span><\/p>\n

What worth is life without sincere love in a home, I ask,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your entry creates a stir within my heart unknown to most,<\/span><\/p>\n

Others in the room react as you’ve seen from coast to coast,<\/span><\/p>\n

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With but a hazel twinkle I have become entranced through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Completely succumbing to the journey to be taken with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Our journey is a journey of heart and soul and given through,<\/span><\/p>\n

I daydream of gazing into the hazel eyes belonging to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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So beautiful your eyes are every day without failure to shine,<\/span><\/p>\n

Like crystal balls of layered hazel encircled with a blue outline,<\/span><\/p>\n

So much beauty is there and yet through those eyes is a door,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve journeyed through into the cuteness of the girl I adore,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Take my hand and my soul will meld with you to explore,<\/span><\/p>\n

With but a glance and a kiss I love you more than I did before,<\/span><\/p>\n

A teardrop from your eyes is precious when pained or blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

My journey in life is to be your protector because I so love you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Forever at your side you’ve given me everything I need in life,<\/span><\/p>\n

My greatest honor is that you have been at my side as my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes I do, oh how I love you, my life has been for you, it’s true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes I do, oh how I do, I was born for one reason, to be with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, for Patti by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n

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Valentine’s Day 2016 (My Selfish Ways)<\/span><\/h2>\n

I’m sincere in my wishes for you to have a Happy Valentines Day,<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgive my selfishness but the day must be with me in some way,<\/span><\/p>\n

A Valentines Day without your touch is a day of love with no play,<\/span><\/p>\n

My blessings of love came long ago when you took my heart away,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just this morning as you cuddled next to me l felt my mind depart,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words of loving you come easy as these words flow from my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

In my land of fairy-tale romance I love your response when lips part,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes I whisper quietly in your ear to give the night a start,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve said the words a thousand times, yet each time they mean more,<\/span><\/p>\n

How is it be possible for fifty years to love more than the day before,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each morning as I wake to look for you and make sure you’re okay,<\/span><\/p>\n

I see your angelic face to bring meaning to another wonderful day,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My heart beats love for you and will until sunshine says goodbye,<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the time that eternity brings absence to how time does fly,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me look into your beautiful eyes that brings me joy in every way,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are beautiful in every way, I love you, Happy Valentine’s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti 2\/14\/2016<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m sorry I’ve been sick and worrying you baby, I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Winding Vein of Golden Thread<\/span><\/h2>\n

There’s a golden thread of love that carries the riches I yearn,<\/span><\/p>\n

To the end of eternity it winds and through obstacles to learn,<\/span><\/p>\n

Secrets held deep of the heart that become precious in bloom,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let her dreams bloom forth that I view beautiful flowers soon,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fairy tales and nursery rhyme have exited my mind to be heard,<\/span><\/p>\n

From world’s of make believe and dreams comes the typed word,<\/span><\/p>\n

The winding vein of golden thread follows a route to my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

Into the clouds the Angel of my Dreams waves as if she is to part,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Such angst springs from my pounding heart if it is for goodbye,<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this a dream, I pray it be so, my heart is a’flight into the sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

Into the clouds of speeding time yet she seems to be adrift at sea,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each attempt to leap into the sky is met by gravity’s pull on me,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I search desperately for my words of rhymes to read the outcome,<\/span><\/p>\n

Desperation has traversed my mind as I once feared losing one,<\/span><\/p>\n

Words scribed by me sometimes flow from an unknown source,<\/span><\/p>\n

Written freely of my heart and mind they are never written of force,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My dreams turned to words are futuristic in forecast it seems,<\/span><\/p>\n

From a butterfly I find words to express an angel in my dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n

Has the Angel departed to be seen never more or does life begin,<\/span><\/p>\n

A weight upon my heart has pulled through a golden string so thin,<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s the golden thread of love I have written about pulled by her,<\/span><\/p>\n

I sense her near as in years past if only I had something to offer,<\/span><\/p>\n

Come near she pleads as from the clouds an angel beckons me,<\/span><\/p>\n

From a cloud or a haze I dwell, am I under spell, what do I see,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I fear, oh how I fear, I fear I shan’t see the angel I need desperately,<\/span><\/p>\n

The haze of sleep brings doubt until I awaken to her next to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

My angel, my dear, my beautiful wife, my rhymes of love come true,<\/span><\/p>\n

So many words yet I can’t describe waking from dreams to see you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n

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Always Mesmerized of You<\/span><\/h2>\n

I washed ashore in a place surrounded by images of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

There were statues all around of you, also in shades of blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

Granite and marble statues that seemed to reach into the sky, <\/span><\/p>\n

I saw your likeness carved grand in the mountains on high, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As I walked along the path laden with gold I wondered, <\/span><\/p>\n

Why so much gold is on this path of gold I now wandered, <\/span><\/p>\n

So many wonders of you I’ve seen yet never have I this, <\/span><\/p>\n

There’s even a monument celebrating a first magic kiss, <\/span><\/p>\n

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With wonder I realized the path was golden pages from time, <\/span><\/p>\n

That had fallen from a book of love poems I write of in rhyme, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time and love had melded to form golden pages for the book, <\/span><\/p>\n

What is said of memories becoming gold is true as I take a look, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fear has filled my heart as did pain with touches of forbidding, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart pains so for you, with each beat I must be bleeding,<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps another has erected this place that I am now viewing, <\/span><\/p>\n

Jealousy is entering my panicked heart although I am resisting, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet I continue walking this path as I am always mesmerized of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

I come upon a fireplace of marbled stone embedded of jewels too, <\/span><\/p>\n

A plaque above reads “my love is alive as are embers burning,” <\/span><\/p>\n

Those are words stolen of me I think as my heart is yearning, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Atop the rise ahead is a street sign that’s commemorated in stone, <\/span><\/p>\n

Getting closer to see I wade a creek of red from a past I’d known, <\/span><\/p>\n

How I wonder, do I know I know this creek or is it I was once shown, <\/span><\/p>\n

The sign carved in stone is the street sign of my childhood home, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Relief fills the heart spaces where fear had managed to invade, <\/span><\/p>\n

I think filled with wonder of whom and how was this place made, <\/span><\/p>\n

Did I do so in another dimension of existence while deep in love, <\/span><\/p>\n

Or is this another dimension of existence that I once dreamed of, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Tears trace my face ever so slow as I remember a time long ago, <\/span><\/p>\n

It was a moment of assured love from the angel I have loved so, <\/span><\/p>\n

I stood silently and stared with memories flowing through of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then a light beam played memories on white clouds in the blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I feel you near my heart as I did when war took me to disaster, <\/span><\/p>\n

Letters hidden from you are bronzed on a display titled “For Her,”<\/span><\/p>\n

My trousers are stained of red as once were my hands of blood, <\/span><\/p>\n

The red creek I crossed was of soldier’s blood mixed into the mud, <\/span><\/p>\n

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In such a lovely place of you it commemorated what we went through, <\/span><\/p>\n

It was at the point of my weary return when from atop the hill came you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Love fell back into my heart although never gone, silenced by fear, <\/span><\/p>\n

How is that my knees feel of rubber every time you come near, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As I walk along the wonders of you I see nightfall across a line, <\/span><\/p>\n

To step across into night skies was as if a quirk in the timeline, <\/span><\/p>\n

I have no fear of darkness if you dwell near to be seen or heard, <\/span><\/p>\n

You give me strength to carry on, which I describe for you in word, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Illuminated for all to see is a book of love poems written by me for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Nearby is a hall of dance with hardwood floors and music playing too, <\/span><\/p>\n

“Love on the Dance Floor” turned into song plays on, amazing my mind, <\/span><\/p>\n

“I must have gone to heaven,” I think to myself of this accidental find, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A beautiful statue stands of you draped in silk moving in the wind, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your breasts and form so tightly exposed for me to see each bend, <\/span><\/p>\n

It looks so real then I see it stir and it is you standing in the breeze, <\/span><\/p>\n

So often I’ve approached your form, you’d think it would be of ease, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet my heart beats so as it has every day when I put my eyes on you, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart nearly halts as thoughts of going blind invade, what will I do, <\/span><\/p>\n

For to touch your hand envelopes my nervous system with sensation,<\/span><\/p>\n

But to gaze into an angel’s eyes is a link to heaven and brings elation, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fear I’d only known once before fills every void within my aged frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a draftee’s goodbye kiss as I feared it would never be the same,<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking my hand to dance, you whisper words of love on the dance floor<\/strong><\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\n

Softly you add, “I am in your mind, I will always be in here as I was before.” <\/span><\/p>\n

The end, for Patti. I love you. <\/span><\/p>\n

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*Love on the Dance Floor<\/strong><\/em> is one of the first published poems written by Pat for Patti. It is one of her favorites. References to blindness are from a recent diagnosis of macular degeneration and other diseases. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Written on a Whim<\/span><\/h2>\n

In a world of pressure and the painful things I live through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each moment of release and happiness is found in you,<\/span><\/p>\n

From deep within my heart I take pause for a moment,<\/span><\/p>\n

I use it to cherish each moment with you I have spent,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh how I love you, I must speak so now with words true,<\/span><\/p>\n

My hopes were high yet never did I imagine as it is with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

No man could ever imagine the joys I’ve known my life through,<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no words known to describe being loved by you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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In my darkest moments I’ve cried for you in fear of my death,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve no fear of dying yet I cringe at the thought of final breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

Departure is so unkind as you and I have known from long ago,<\/span><\/p>\n

Helplessness invades the heart knowing your loved must go,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet we endured with open eyes seeking our future hand in hand,<\/span><\/p>\n

We stood against all odds and we survived each battle’s stand,<\/span><\/p>\n

I dream, yes, I still dream of days allowed to devote only to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

So desperately I want to hold you with nothing else I need to do,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alone with our thoughts we will wade the waters of time’s shore,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hand in hand two hearts synced to beat together forevermore,<\/span><\/p>\n

This is my five verse rhyme written on a whim to say it’s true,<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter where we are I will always be deeply in love with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chapters of You<\/span><\/h2>\n

If only I could write a book of the wonders of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapters written about you and the things you do,<\/span><\/p>\n

A wonderful book of joyful days filled with delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

From preface to the end every word must be right,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chapter one would begin with a hug of pure love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pure love from my heart for the one I dream of,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pages filled with words of description of loving you,<\/span><\/p>\n

A beautiful narrative history begins in Chapter Two,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each page carefully typed of the perfect word,<\/span><\/p>\n

My hopes are that not everything has been heard,<\/span><\/p>\n

Angels are upon our earth I will attempt to show,<\/span><\/p>\n

One angel is exceptional I will let the world know,<\/span><\/p>\n

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A page turned releases essence of you to explore,<\/span><\/p>\n

Vaporous words releasing emotions not felt before,<\/span><\/p>\n

What draws man to beauty may be read in my book,<\/span><\/p>\n

My addiction to you explained, a smile is all it took,<\/span><\/p>\n

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A walk into the woods at dawn’s infancy best describes,<\/span><\/p>\n

A journey into awaking are the words my mind scribes,<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth’s blanketing fog lifted as we held hands to walk,<\/span><\/p>\n

Trepidatious apprehension of the unseen creates a balk,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunrise brings so much joy to name her angel of sunrise,<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter into the day my beauty with sparkling hazel eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

Reserved for you are pages to savor the joys of first light,<\/span><\/p>\n

Kisses of rose petal tenderness with morning dew delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bring forth life in full as we explore my book honoring you,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s written from my heart my sweet angel of morning dew,<\/span><\/p>\n

You delight in God’s glories as heaven’s beams shine down,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will write of pleasure as I watch you love those around,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Familial love blooms from your heart as if spring each day,<\/span><\/p>\n

I must insert each special day although impossible some say,<\/span><\/p>\n

True it is, to write of each wonderful day is an impossible task,<\/span><\/p>\n

A full chapter for an answer and the question men in love ask,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our love is reciprocal from the start, my greatest blessing,<\/span><\/p>\n

My love for you is eternal and is a love that’s never ending,<\/span><\/p>\n

My desire, my fire is to fulfill your dreams even the smallest,<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the men in your heart I pray to be honorable and tallest,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To stand tall in the eyes of an angel is more than most will do,<\/span><\/p>\n

My final chapter will have no ending but will be devotion to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

The words will slowly fade into tomorrow’s horizon for discovery,<\/span><\/p>\n

From heaven’s window we will watch as I love you into eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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