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

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

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

I’m Bound to You Forever<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In the Beauty of Your Eyes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sublime Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I am Your Walkway (Prostrate for You)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Path of Bewilderment’s Way<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In Search of You (Amohalko Isle)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Red Roses to Burglary<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Across the New Horizon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

How Can It Be Said (Beyond Reach)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Wrapped in Escaping Starlight<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mothers Day 2016 (To Cultivate My Taste)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

To Become ii of You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

When First Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From Tranquil Waters We Will Begin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Footprints of Love (Canopy of Innocence)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Heart of Stone (Sculpted Heart)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Of the Kisses I Blew<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewels of His Hand<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I Walked Into the Night<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Young Man of a Future Past<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Where Teardrops Have Gone (Nuance of You) <\/a><\/span<\/p>\n

An Angel Came to Ground<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Through Teardrops Haze I Plead<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

1969 For You I Linger<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

 
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Volume Fifteen<\/span><\/h2>\n
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I’m Bound to You Forever<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m bound to you forever by the rust specs in your eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hazel speckled by rust and wrapped in blue of dark skies,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each night as you sleep I am lost in your beauty I can’t deny,<\/span><\/p>\n

A teardrop of love often falls from my eye as I try not to cry,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tears of joyful celebration that we have been married so long,<\/span><\/p>\n

If only I had skills of a musician I would write a beautiful song,<\/span><\/p>\n

A gift of love must be sincere when it comes from man of rust,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve looked deep inside my mind but somehow I find only dust,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My worth alone is of little value for without you near I am void,<\/span><\/p>\n

Time now moves so rapidly as if the hands have been destroyed,<\/span><\/p>\n

Acceleration of time takes place each time you are in my hold,<\/span><\/p>\n

Absent your touch each minute is an eternity while I grow old,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stardust fell from the sky to form a pathway just for you,<\/span><\/p>\n

We know it as the Milky Way displayed for everyone to view,<\/span><\/p>\n

As particles of stardust fall to earth the fairies gather around,<\/span><\/p>\n

From diamond dust to desert dust it is finest fairy dust found,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps the mystery of your youth is what dust fell on you,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I’ve fallen to decay and rust your beauty is exciting to view,<\/span><\/p>\n

When I am ill the burden of love is shown in your beautiful eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

A dust of fortune must have fallen on me as I studied the skies,<\/span><\/p>\n

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If love is a burning ember then I’m ablaze with love for you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Fate stood before me at loves door enticing me to go through,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a fool you know, as I cherish each moment of my life,<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you Patti, I’m so thankful you chose to be my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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In the Beauty of Your Eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

In the wonder of your eyes love’s beauty is truthfully found,<\/span><\/p>\n

From twinkle to sparkle your eyes raise me up when I’m down,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your plush red lips would be cherished if carved in stone alone,<\/span><\/p>\n

Red lips so beautiful without embellishment are rarely known,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long ago as I traced your profile with my fingers I felt you so well,<\/span><\/p>\n

As my fingertips touched every feature I felt your love as if a spell,<\/span><\/p>\n

So many photos of you I rubbed through as I prayed nightly for you,<\/span><\/p>\n

I was a silly young man to cry as all were copies I rubbed through,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Such feelings I can’t put into words yet I’ve felt them all my life,<\/span><\/p>\n

We have been together fifty years and I’m still in awe of my wife,<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s more to me than you’ll ever know yet I have tried so hard,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve tried very hard to allow entry to my mind although I’m scarred,<\/span><\/p>\n

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You are the one that has fulfilled my every dream in every way,<\/span><\/p>\n

The scars brought by the draft and being sent so very far away,<\/span><\/p>\n

While away I cherished every moment I had with you deep inside,<\/span><\/p>\n

I truly believe if not for my loving you I would have surely died,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, I put you on a pedestal so very long ago and you shall remain,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are so deserving although you argue, please let me explain,<\/span><\/p>\n

To know your every secret fills me with joy that in me you trust,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are the golden treasure that has brought glory to fading rust,<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I hear your voice I wait anxiously to see you as if my duty,<\/span><\/p>\n

As you play with grandkids I watch in awe of your enduring beauty,<\/span><\/p>\n

If ever you could feel my heartbeat as you just walk into the room,<\/span><\/p>\n

I see you as a beautiful flower from heaven not yet in full bloom,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most remarkable is that everyone saw your beauty but for one,<\/span><\/p>\n

Can it be true that such a goddess has no vanity, not even some?<\/span><\/p>\n

I give witness for eternity that such an angel has never been vain,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each year has brought more beauty to your beautiful little frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Graying hair has brought added beauty in such a wonderful way,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each lovely hair of grey is a gift from heaven given to you each day,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your profile is of ageless beauty such as jewels or precious gold,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus I am the richest man on earth knowing I have you to hold.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

By Pat for my beautiful angel Patti<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sublime Love<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a melody so addictive I wanted to hold you the night through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Twas’ more a symphony that exponentially amplified my love of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel I’ve known you a thousand years or at least nine ninety nine,<\/span><\/p>\n

And during ninety nine point nine percent I have called you mine,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To at last pull you close was akin to a reuniting of my soul to flesh,<\/span><\/p>\n

The moment your lips touched mine I felt as if my life began afresh,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve grown my angel, oh how I have grown as a man because of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Compare the opaque skies blemished with smog to crisp clear blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps you are a hurricane that cleansed the isle of “Me” to start anew,<\/span><\/p>\n

And so I began, cleansed of all past habits that I am devoted to solely you,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart had been yours since birth, I have no doubt of this being true,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I needed an awakening of sorts to bring memories of past through,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My reincarnations through time have been of each to bring my love,<\/span><\/p>\n

To reunite my heart with you, two hearts beyond what most think of,<\/span><\/p>\n

A symphony of celestial significance written of the heavens above,<\/span><\/p>\n

Storybook romances and fairytale loves will never know such love,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of this I am sure, our love through time is a significant discovery in history,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart has known you forever, how I don’t know, this to me is a mystery,<\/span><\/p>\n

Significantly precious love, pregnant love is another meaning misunderstood,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pregnant love means abundantly filled with rather than the usual motherhood,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My heart is near bursting with love if written descriptive for this little rhyme,<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I describe it as “little rhyme” it is significant as the words are mine,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sincerely written from the depths of my heart with each contraction in time,<\/span><\/p>\n

Timed with the pulse of the universe, each so significant of love it is sublime,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sublime love, sublime heart pulses, anything of you is sublime, this is true,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am overwhelmed of you, in awe I study features as you sleep, I adore you, Forever I will be of you, my heart beats each beat that I may continue to love,<\/span><\/p>\n

This poem if written of love, no other reason but to say “you are all I think of.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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I am Your Walkway (Prostrate for You)<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you the bridge? The walkway to heaven across through the blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

A golden archway only seen by spirits of a dimension we pass through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each existence must have a spirit guide so I have wondered that of you,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am enamored of you, perhaps to say I have a love addiction is said true,<\/span><\/p>\n

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For each there is a significant partner though for many they go unfound,<\/span><\/p>\n

They are a mate, a lover, a friend, the one, their soul mate heaven bound,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have long ago surrendered all I am to you in expression and in total full,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes! You are my bridge! As well my life’s pool of elation from which I pull,<\/span><\/p>\n

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You too are my steeple that reaches high into the heavens when I’m in need,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let it be said that you are my everything, any need can be found in you indeed,<\/span><\/p>\n

I deed myself to you, I give you title to all I am, to my flesh, to my mind and heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems I have become non expressive although I seek to say it all or fall apart,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once again illness lurks around each bend and I suffer to see you worry,<\/span><\/p>\n

My poor darling little girl it seems as if illness comes in a storm of flurry,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have seen the controlled tears in your precious hazel eyes wrapped in blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt you seek to bury your little head upon my shoulder and weep too,<\/span><\/p>\n

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My heart truly breaks for you my angel, may I be your bridge while I’m ill?<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter that I’m sick as I will find the fortitude to stand firm still,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will be your walkway, my angel, I will lay my body prostrate to protect thy feet,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes I use archaic words as I feel thou deserves higher regard to be complete,<\/span><\/p>\n

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You don’t realize this but you are the path I must follow to gain entry to heaven,<\/span><\/p>\n

United as one, we walk as one, we must work His work as nothing is given,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each time we speak of our love we are doing the work of God as God is love,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are so perfect for me that your every movement fits me like a glove,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am clothed of you my angel, I truly am, you have enveloped my form complete,<\/span><\/p>\n

As you have given yourself to me I am grateful as I wonder could I truly compete,<\/span><\/p>\n

Truly I have worn to become rust and I must try to hold the beauty of rare gold,<\/span><\/p>\n

Gold never loses value though tarnished it is easily polished in an admirers hold,<\/span><\/p>\n

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And how I admire you, long ago I placed you on a pedestal as I know your value,<\/span><\/p>\n

More so than any man alive I know the value of Patti and I hold that to be true,<\/span><\/p>\n

Mornings I wake in awe of your beauty, as well I am grateful being loved by you,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are my everything, no words can describe loving you, words spoken so true,<\/span><\/p>\n

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You are special, what word have I beyond such meager description to say?<\/span><\/p>\n

Exceptional, you are extreme of perfection, touched by God in a special way,<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavenly is truly the most descriptive word for the angel that wears my ring,<\/span><\/p>\n

I must kneel in thanks to give glory to our Lord, grateful for the love you bring.<\/span><\/p>\n

I…..love you……Patti. I take pause to reflect on how blessed I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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The Path of Bewilderment’s Way<\/span><\/p>\n

As we meander the path through bewilderment’s way,<\/span><\/p>\n

We pass many things we’ve learned to ignore each day,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve looked into the eyes of a fellow draftee yet I ignore, <\/span><\/p>\n

I fear the tugs upon memories I have thrown to the floor, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Another child, another day, I’ve dug deep to look inside,<\/span><\/p>\n

I look into the downtrodden’s eyes and see they’ve cried, <\/span><\/p>\n

My good intentions have fallen to the floor of incompletion, <\/span><\/p>\n

Do you feel, have you felt the same pain without exception, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Present the glories of the world’s darkness carried inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

Too many soldiers gone, too many Vietnam Vets have died, <\/span><\/p>\n

They traveled the streets never welcomed home from war, <\/span><\/p>\n

I deeply wished, as did they, that it could be as it was before, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fireworks crash, thunder claps, backfires all bring it back, <\/span><\/p>\n

Terror returns for one moment, just as when under attack, <\/span><\/p>\n

I feel it, I feel the pain, the fear, the anxiety of wondering, <\/span><\/p>\n

Will I go home complete or absent limbs, I hate remembering, <\/span><\/p>\n

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How I fear “the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,”<\/span><\/p>\n

Lyrics of war so misunderstood by many as fireworks glare, <\/span><\/p>\n

When memories hidden are awakened to be they return in full, <\/span><\/p>\n

Many men of that war never felt the glory of patriotism’s pull, <\/span><\/p>\n

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To march the march of protestors revolt to a march of training, <\/span><\/p>\n

Was a startling transition of wartime that needs no explaining, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I felt that tug to defend as my father however he enlisted, <\/span><\/p>\n

Love held me back as well as schooling so I was deferment listed, <\/span><\/p>\n

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How little we realize the depth of the damage done by one death, <\/span><\/p>\n

For a seventeen year old to watch another teenagers last breath, <\/span><\/p>\n

Is an assault upon innocence that removes any child left inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

The guilt of a late trigger response lays so heavy I’ve often cried, <\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s locked deep inside shame’s vault of secrets yet disclosed in full, <\/span><\/p>\n

How many died as a result of a hesitant machine gun trigger pull, <\/span><\/p>\n

The first day, a first encounter, do I pull the trigger or am I a fool, <\/span><\/p>\n

My answer came in a fury of gunfire that left behind a red pool, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Nineteen sailors injured that day as well numerous Marines dead, <\/span><\/p>\n

I, as do others, have too many things floating around in my head,<\/span><\/p>\n

These are not pleasant memories I speak of but moments of dread, <\/span><\/p>\n

So many have it much worse than me and would prefer mine instead, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As I exit to enter upon the path of fading years I take a pause, <\/span><\/p>\n

With her is heavenly existence, without I have no reason or cause, <\/span><\/p>\n

Had I hesitated years ago, hesitation may have brought catastrophe, <\/span><\/p>\n

Catastrophe involving Patti would spell the absolute end of me, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine my existence had I hesitated in canceling a date with another, <\/span><\/p>\n

Or had I hesitated when I crawled threw a window to an angel wonder, <\/span><\/p>\n

She was truly an angel, the imprint is heavy upon my mind for eternity, <\/span><\/p>\n

I see the silhouette of an teenage angel embedded inside me mentally, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Almost daily I relive that moment of hesitant trigger finger pull, <\/span><\/p>\n

Was I hesitant or was it the normal jitters of a first day warring fool?<\/span><\/p>\n

As it enters my mind I sincerely attempt to put my focus upon her, <\/span><\/p>\n

For she is the opposite extreme of the agony endured I need to defer, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I take a deep breath as I did that horrible day and I meditate on loving her, <\/span><\/p>\n

Loving her is the easiest thing I have done, for her I surrender my life in offer, <\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet surrender, the sensational surrender of my heart and all I am in life,<\/span><\/p>\n

Again she has saved me, again I am saved by my beautiful, heavenly wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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In Search of You (Amohalko Isle)<\/span><\/p>\n

I had always dreamed that one day you would be in my arms,<\/span><\/p>\n

Little angel of hazel eyes I fully succumbed to your charms, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent dream you were to one day become our Queen,<\/span><\/p>\n

And I served you upon a stallion of white in my magical dream, <\/span><\/p>\n

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We surround a coach of gold that is pulled by unicorns of white, <\/span><\/p>\n

And you are the most beautiful majesty ever seen by this knight, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your unicorns were of magical breed with wings of muscular form, <\/span><\/p>\n

So fast was this breed that they lost time flying into the storm, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Many a starlit night I watched the sky in search of but a clue, <\/span><\/p>\n

Desperately I searched the skies when word finally came of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

It is said that your unicorns flew high to secret islands in the air, <\/span><\/p>\n

Numerous tales came to be of the Princess that lived “up there,”<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I watched the night sky I wished upon a star that I’d find you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Wishes are like the air yet I prayed that my wish would come true, <\/span><\/p>\n

I searched in desperate need of you as my heart beat true of blood, <\/span><\/p>\n

In search I found a spiraling staircase that made my emotions flood, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Made of hand carved mahogany so opulent of gold trim and more, <\/span><\/p>\n

This staircase of luxurious wood reached so high it seemed to soar, <\/span><\/p>\n

In this dream of “loving you” I donned my armor to battle for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Round and up I went on this staircase of wood soaring into the blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

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For over a day I climbed as I went through the clouds of earth, <\/span><\/p>\n

I reached the top exhausted from carrying steel that’s my girth, <\/span><\/p>\n

Daylight found darkness as I arrived at the first isle floating in air, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then I felt desperation set in as I saw there were other islands there, <\/span><\/p>\n

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To see I made way to the highest point of the mountain above the sea, <\/span><\/p>\n

How many times has she filled my dreams with love and her loving me, <\/span><\/p>\n

I have so little time as I must don my armor to re-enter our leader’s fray,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am your man that will love you until my heart ceases one far away day, <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Return to me” sweet princess are the words you spoke that night, <\/span><\/p>\n

I am here yet you are to be found somewhere amongst islands in flight, <\/span><\/p>\n

For thirty days I searched for you my hazel eyed beauty of love at night, <\/span><\/p>\n

Little nicknames I’ve placed upon you in memory of when I held you tight, <\/span><\/p>\n

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My heart will kill me I swear if I should find you’ve found another love,<\/span><\/p>\n

My life has become so complex that I depart empty of the one I dream of, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a spoken promise made by me, I said I would return to you this day, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart feels empty and dry as if the Sahara Desert is in my chest today, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Down the spiraled staircase of wood I went creating dizziness of my mind, <\/span><\/p>\n

Round and down I went as emptiness filled my heart, is my heart love blind?<\/span><\/p>\n

Across the sea I must go to fight the darkness of oppression for mankind, <\/span><\/p>\n

My letters that turned you away are tormenting me, I may lose my mind, <\/span><\/p>\n

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This past year has been so unkind in every way you could think of, <\/span><\/p>\n

Combat and death has filled my mind where once was toys and love, <\/span><\/p>\n

I will cling to the artist rendition of you as I feel it’s my only piece of gold, <\/span><\/p>\n

As well I will cling to the memory of two young hearts in each other’s hold, <\/span><\/p>\n

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True, my lady, I once felt I would soar like an eagle but I have doubts today, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is scorched by dragon’s venom and belching fire that came my way, <\/span><\/p>\n

With this emptiness of heart and lost hope I must return to our leader’s war, <\/span><\/p>\n

What I do now is fraught with danger, oh how I wished I’d hold you once more, <\/span><\/p>\n

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It seems but a day has passed yet the calendar says it’s a month today, <\/span><\/p>\n

Where I go this next day is fraught with danger and peril along the way, <\/span><\/p>\n

Snow has covered the mountains I must cross to engage the enemy today, <\/span><\/p>\n

As quickly as that month passed the enemy has bound me and had their way, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I am sad, I am low, I whisper my words of love for you from dungeons of hell,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each brick is fired of red clay and I know each within my walls very well, <\/span><\/p>\n

My broken flesh burns from the acidity of their urine yet the warmth is good, <\/span><\/p>\n

Today I’m low, I could feel no lower if they continued beating me with wood, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I found that my heart loves you no matter what you could do to me, <\/span><\/p>\n

While on the rack of torture my heart cried out for you across the sea, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart yearned for you while battle raged no matter where we fought, <\/span><\/p>\n

Although my heart is filled with love for you, equal loneliness I have got, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I am to depart this hell today as they have traded the enemy’s man for me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow I will return to you and win your heart that our love can be,<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps I can leave warring behind and only slay dragons for my due, <\/span><\/p>\n

I must heal then journey by ship to return home to search for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I write this journal for record of what transpired in my absence from you, <\/span><\/p>\n

How will I again find the stairway to the heavens through the sky blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

I made a promise to return to you and I shall no matter what I do, <\/span><\/p>\n

If once I journeyed into the blue then surely I can again if it was true, <\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s been near two years since I touched your lips and you went away, <\/span><\/p>\n

Rumor has said your mother moved you away from me on that day, <\/span><\/p>\n

I pray it’s not for another otherwise I fear I shall wilt until I’m done, <\/span><\/p>\n

I will go to this land of Amohalko if I must in search of my only one, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I will find the stairway of opulence and climb to the isle in the sky, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then forever build bridges to each sky island until I find you or I die, <\/span><\/p>\n

At last I have made my way to the village where I once I held you tight, <\/span><\/p>\n

I am weary of war and scarred by dragons of fire and traveling by night, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Famine has made poor of my family and I fear I must move them away, <\/span><\/p>\n

Be patient my hazel eyed beauty, I swear I will return to you one day, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I mount my steed to journey away I see a chariot of white on the hill, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is beating through my chest can it be you in the chariot of steel, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Touch my hand and I will surely faint or please grant me but a smile, <\/span><\/p>\n

Instead you have asked for my promise to return making all worthwhile, <\/span><\/p>\n

In six long months I’ve returned to you and our story can begin anew, <\/span><\/p>\n

It has been proven by my heart, sweet angel, I am eternally in love with you. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Red Roses to Burglary<\/span><\/p>\n

To see a red rose mysteriously changes what I can see,<\/span><\/p>\n

Magic takes place where I stand it is truly a mystery, <\/span><\/p>\n

I see your precious red lips that need no embellishment,<\/span><\/p>\n

The perfect canvas for His hand is no doubt heaven sent, <\/span><\/p>\n

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So precious is your face created with skin that’s perfection, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your high cheek bones accent your nose with no correction, <\/span><\/p>\n

I make way to your beautiful eyes that have particles of me, <\/span><\/p>\n

The hazel lines within what seems crystal is made perfectly, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The arch of your brows is a meticulous accent of your eyes, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time has perfected your hair with gray that perfectly applies, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fifty years ago I felt no need for perfection of such beauty, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet now the small lines of time accent your face as if by duty, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The passion I feel within your grasp was never felt before, <\/span><\/p>\n

Although exhausted your touch ignites my need for more, <\/span><\/p>\n

A heart that’s pierced by the ties of past, present, and future, <\/span><\/p>\n

Is forever bound by love to regenerate the ties and to nurture, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Is love at first sight a reality or a recognition of love past, <\/span><\/p>\n

The moment I saw you there was no doubt the die was cast, <\/span><\/p>\n

My dreams of you came long before I saw you standing there, <\/span><\/p>\n

From age fourteen I dreamed of you with long and flowing hair, <\/span><\/p>\n

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How love at first sight occurs is insignificant after fifty years, <\/span><\/p>\n

Because of loving you through the years I have shed few tears, <\/span><\/p>\n

What heartbreak I’ve known was dampened by loving you, <\/span><\/p>\n

I have fought and will continue to fight everything I go through, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I walk life’s path secure with your hand placed tightly in mine, <\/span><\/p>\n

The path has been far too short using our measurements of time, <\/span><\/p>\n

I woke wondering how I can find more time to spend with only you, <\/span><\/p>\n

I must make each grain of sand larger to slow how it flows through, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As ridiculous as it sounds I exaggerate to signify desperation’s need, <\/span><\/p>\n

You have aged as expected of an angel as such I have seen you succeed, <\/span><\/p>\n

We experienced the unknown as only through love could it be done,<\/span><\/p>\n

In my hardest moment I astral projected to the safety of my only one, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I felt my soul lift from my body as pain and blood loss became a gateway, <\/span><\/p>\n

Desperately my heart was in need of you such that instantly I was far away,<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is a magnetism that pulls the heart to complete the match until done, <\/span><\/p>\n

I felt the charge of your pull that November as across the hill you did come,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As you drew closer the tingling sensation of magnetic force pulled inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

Surely you felt it too as through time we felt something was to coincide, <\/span><\/p>\n

Two hearts beating as one to reuniting what have occurred long ago, <\/span><\/p>\n

I dream of you from past lives long ago that are more than dreams I know, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The analogy I use of rust and gold holds so very true as I am worn, <\/span><\/p>\n

And you my angel are gold, you carry more beauty each day since born, <\/span><\/p>\n

No man knows his worth better than I do as I am aware of my failures, <\/span><\/p>\n

To compare us by metals using gold to steel is the best of measures, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As a young draftee my strength grew to that of steel as needed for war, <\/span><\/p>\n

I enjoyed my training to such an extreme that I always wanted more, <\/span><\/p>\n

My youth had experienced little other than sports to grow in stature, <\/span><\/p>\n

In hind sight I’d not have excelled above others had I known my future, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I am true of steel that has worn through in so many places from rust, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I grow old it seems as if I am decaying beyond rust to become dust, <\/span><\/p>\n

And you my gorgeous angel remain gold with little tarnish known, <\/span><\/p>\n

And still what steel remains of me will protect gold as I have shown, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve seen the night, so woeful is the night of my final fight, <\/span><\/p>\n

A small time crook is the cause when my soul takes flight, <\/span><\/p>\n

Burglarizing our home as we slept until he strikes fear in your heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

As a measurement of his safety he attempted to pull us far apart, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I heard your frightened screams forcing early action before harm came, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I came he fired his weapon into me while adrenaline changed the game, <\/span><\/p>\n

A hurricane of flurry came from my aged and worn body in final hurrah, <\/span><\/p>\n

With the burglar unconscious he is bound then the blood of rust you saw, <\/span><\/p>\n

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What they say is true as it is the second time I’m shot but I didn’t know, <\/span><\/p>\n

It seems as if the surge of adrenaline blocks the pain making it slow, <\/span><\/p>\n

Upon realization it is quite intense this pain could be the final blow, <\/span><\/p>\n

I lay upon the bed after placing towels upon the sheets a bit too slow, <\/span><\/p>\n

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You cry asking what I’m doing because you know exactly my thought, <\/span><\/p>\n

Guilt and fear have filled your heart as you know it was for you I fought, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time is precious, I utter as I fall in bed needing your naked mounds, <\/span><\/p>\n

I utter “let me hold you close my angel and hear your little sounds,”<\/span><\/p>\n

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We kiss the kiss that started it all so long ago upon my sister’s bed, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your tongue excites me but alarms go off inside my mind instead, <\/span><\/p>\n

We both are in need of care as your screams came from knife insertion, <\/span><\/p>\n

Now I need to kill him if only I could stand but it takes too much exertion, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I don’t want to sleep nor do I want you to sleep as I fear the end, <\/span><\/p>\n

“I might fall asleep” I hear as I reply “sleep angel so you can mend,”<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing this is the end I pray with you and whisper “close your little eyes,” <\/span><\/p>\n

As darkness overtakes me I see my angel waiting in the night skies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Across the New Horizon<\/span><\/p>\n

Across the new horizon lays a rainbow as well as future love, <\/span><\/p>\n

Future love will always be there for you if I’m what you dream of, <\/span><\/p>\n

I am the pot at the end of the rainbow to be filled with gold of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

This vow I give to you along with my steel that hasn’t rusted through,<\/span><\/p>\n

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To see your beautiful face brings delight each time I see you again, <\/span><\/p>\n

Each time I’ve journeyed far my reward is a simple touch of your skin, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time moves so quickly now that each click of the clock is felt hard, <\/span><\/p>\n

I must admit the ravages of time has caught me completely off guard, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I will gather your love in and hold you until you tire of my hold, <\/span><\/p>\n

Proudly I will be the container that’s the recipient of your gold, <\/span><\/p>\n

Although a rainbow may mark the spot I will protect what we’ve got, <\/span><\/p>\n

Of certainty I will cherish your love and return to you a larger pot, <\/span><\/p>\n

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No leprechaun can lay claim to our gold as it is gold of our hearts, <\/span><\/p>\n

Much more I have of you cherished memories of when my love starts, <\/span><\/p>\n

We have a pot of gold it’s true as everything given of you is pure gold, <\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest treasure my heart will know is the gold of you in my hold. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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How Can It Be Said (Beyond Reach)<\/span><\/p>\n

Across the hills composed of years and rivers flowing of love, <\/span><\/p>\n

Is a place of solace and love that you and I have dreamed of, <\/span><\/p>\n

Sparkles come from diamonds, polished gems, and your eyes, <\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing has the glistening sparkles as your eyes in night skies, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve struggled to say beyond what words allow to describe a touch, <\/span><\/p>\n

Particles of delight ignite my molecular structure, atoms and such, <\/span><\/p>\n

What words can describe such sensations that enkindle me inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

How can I explain the laws of unconditional love to which we abide, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Bring to me your love and blind my eyes yet I will know your touch, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is bound of you and yours of me how can I describe such, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve reached into the river of flowing love long ago and found your, <\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond a sentence having every word of love with more to procure,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each thing of beauty I see draws my heart much closer to your love, <\/span><\/p>\n

You’re the girl with long flowing dark hair and hazel eyes I dream of, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a long ago city unknown to most my heart opened wide for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a long hard road we’ve driven softened by love’s beautiful hue,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve seen every color in every hue much more clearly touching you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Lavender flowers set against a hillside bring thoughts of love true, <\/span><\/p>\n

Love as a thought is empty and just a word until entry of your form, <\/span><\/p>\n

Our spiritual love borne of touch grew exceptionally beyond norm, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A beautiful picture of you provided courage to fight when I had none, <\/span><\/p>\n

I traced through more than one photo before the violence was done, <\/span><\/p>\n

Touch by absentia got me through desperate days when I was alone, <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s how I got through those days when my future was unknown, <\/span><\/p>\n

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How can it be said true of my heart unless every word known is used, <\/span><\/p>\n

That question has been asked of me and each time I appear confused, <\/span><\/p>\n

My appearance and inability to say is because of limitations of speech, <\/span><\/p>\n

So it shall be ‘to capture our seasoned love in words is beyond reach,’<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the touch of fingertips a night world of kaleidoscope stars appear, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a vessel of love we kiss as it sails across glass seas with skies clear,<\/span><\/p>\n

We wade to shore on an island beautifully laden with flowers of nature, <\/span><\/p>\n

The joys we share are impossible to describe without verbal departure, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Kiss upon the lips of an angel and pray she responds the same, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fifty years ago I kissed the lips of an angel true that took my name, <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s how it is I must say there’s no one line to describe such love, <\/span><\/p>\n

It is the stars, heaven, children’s joy and her, that our love is made of.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat. Written especially for Patti, my lifelong love<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wrapped in Escaping Starlight<\/span><\/p>\n

Will I leave this life in a blaze of glory or quietly slip away?<\/span><\/p>\n

I prefer to quietly pass on with you near if I have my way, <\/span><\/p>\n

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To look into your eyes and remember when I was still young, <\/span><\/p>\n

The memories of a first kiss and the taste of your tongue, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A heavenly kiss becomes a treasure when soldiers leave, <\/span><\/p>\n

Words escape too quickly to explain, I pray you do believe, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Things were so different in nineteen sixty eight it’s true, <\/span><\/p>\n

Burning like a comet across the sky I was on fire for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

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You were gold and a treasure created by His Hand no doubt, <\/span><\/p>\n

And I of the strongest steel processed to be triple A stout, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Never intended to go to war I was a protestor of war after all, <\/span><\/p>\n

Because of loving you I chose to accept my military draft call, <\/span><\/p>\n

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After war’s torment and a deteriorating of steel I came home,<\/span><\/p>\n

If not for you I would not have survived, I would be all alone, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Like a raging warrior of one I stood tall when needed in the fray, <\/span><\/p>\n

For you I entered the fray of ten to save my treasure that day, <\/span><\/p>\n

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In a blaze of love’s glory for her I soared like a missile locked in, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time seized to be for a moment or two then I heard you again, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I felt no ribs break or fingers snap until I knew you were okay, <\/span><\/p>\n

Brother Steve joined the conflict without concern one other day, <\/span><\/p>\n

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There is no better way to exit the fray than a family victory high, <\/span><\/p>\n

Like two diamonds in the rough we cut through time’s dark sky, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Exuberance only known of Kings was shared in victory that night, <\/span><\/p>\n

When our loves are endangered there’s no hesitation to fight, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Launched by our father’s courage and our mother’s foresight, <\/span><\/p>\n

In minutes with our angels safe we ended the assailant’s fight, <\/span><\/p>\n

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That was thirty years ago and I wonder how many more came, <\/span><\/p>\n

I once knocked a classmate out when he spoke your name, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lust and sex came from his mouth as if I would enjoy his word, <\/span><\/p>\n

To say you want to xxxx a man’s wife so loud everyone heard, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Is an invitation to imagine it unconscious for awhile you filthy man, <\/span><\/p>\n

Say it again and again I will hit you in the face as hard as I can, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The past twenty years I’ve been spent fighting diseases and more, <\/span><\/p>\n

Actually it’s been much more but I’d rather discuss heaven’s door, <\/span><\/p>\n

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From heaven she must have come as I’ve seen her from there, <\/span><\/p>\n

Her beauty is beyond any woman and I’ve been most everywhere, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps it is she that came from heaven like a blaze from above, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve closed my eyes and imagined her flying down filled with love, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Gift wrapped in the black of sky with diamonds sparking through, <\/span><\/p>\n

There is no other way to package true love if sent from heaven too, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine the beauty of such brought from a beautiful angel to you, <\/span><\/p>\n

So much love escapes her heart it bursts forth and it shines through, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Love rips from my chest unable to be contained as she comes near, <\/span><\/p>\n

There is no woman more beautiful than her I still see enough clear, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Imagine what seems a container in the field all alone but sparkling, <\/span><\/p>\n

Escaping starlight and reflected gold along with diamonds twinkling, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Her heart is bountiful of love for me to such extreme it’s hard to see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Next to her is a vessel of me filled with love of the highest degree. <\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat. For you Patti. I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mothers Day 2016 (To Cultivate My Taste)<\/span><\/p>\n

I woke at midnight to find midnight oh one creeping up on me, <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s time, it’s time to wake from the world of adventure I can’t see, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a dimension unknown I am, who I am is yet unknown with you, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m with you and you are as beautiful as the first time I saw through, <\/span><\/p>\n

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From within my brain there is an outlet to view the world around, <\/span><\/p>\n

By using these orbs of magic your beautiful face and form is found,<\/span><\/p>\n

“I see you” are the words to express the results found by orb’s view, <\/span><\/p>\n

Something vibrates the follicles next to the place where I view you, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Wow, it is sound I have found or did I invent this noise in my head, <\/span><\/p>\n

After much thought I believe it proper to give God credit instead, <\/span><\/p>\n

Sound is remarkable alone but combined with view it’s profound, <\/span><\/p>\n

When the sweetness of your voice mixes with view I am you bound, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh, the sound of which I have found is different on each side ear, <\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder as I strum through my dictionary looking up words for hear, <\/span><\/p>\n

Hmmmm, it seems I already know the word hear but is hear from ear?<\/span><\/p>\n

Did they add ‘h’ to ear for hear or was ‘h’ removed to make hear clear?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course ‘cl’ is added to get clear from ear yet you must be near, <\/span><\/p>\n

You must be near to hear clear the sound from that enters the ear, <\/span><\/p>\n

By adding a new letter another ear word came with plus ‘n’ for near, <\/span><\/p>\n

I fear I must exit of ear, oh dear, oh my, now ‘d’ and ‘f’ for fear and dear, <\/span><\/p>\n

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My brain is complex I’ve found beyond the miracle of your sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

From within my cool brain’s function is also my mind I have found, <\/span><\/p>\n

I say cool not as an expression of how cool I am but to have a brain, <\/span><\/p>\n

For without a brain I’ve found looking at you won’t be the very same, <\/span><\/p>\n

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There’d be no memory to cultivate my taste and reason for love to find, <\/span><\/p>\n

Comparison must be made for you to be the most beautiful in my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

As this being of me wandered life and all things of you I wanted to see, <\/span><\/p>\n

I found pages with dates and months that at first were difficult for me, <\/span><\/p>\n

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By using this spongy tissue filled with matter of gray I learned to say, <\/span><\/p>\n

To speak and to read a lot of words but truthfully it took more than a day, <\/span><\/p>\n

But I’m a quick study and by year of living that adds to almost sixty nine, <\/span><\/p>\n

I read it’s Mother’s Day, Happy Mother’s Day, at sixty four you’re still so fine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Happy Mother’s Day!<\/span><\/p>\n

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To Become ii of You<\/span><\/p>\n

I rose this morning to a beautiful soul vessel sleeping next to me, <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a blessing to wake each morning into a world filled with beauty, <\/span><\/p>\n

At first viewing I become ii of you, it’s true I do, <\/span><\/p>\n

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For within this magnificent carriage of soul is the angel I love, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a world that’s filled with hardship are you a gift from above?<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s true I wonder of you, I occupy myself with you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As my mind thinks of God’s creation I kneel in gratitude of such, <\/span><\/p>\n

The little things that are everywhere although small mean so much,<\/span><\/p>\n

I ponder you and the intoxication brought by you, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As Indian blankets cover a field with Inflorescences of red-violet, <\/span><\/p>\n

Memories of a long ago meeting when mind and form were inviolate, <\/span><\/p>\n

I knew then of true love, first sight brought feelings of, <\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s been fifty years and though my site fails everything you I see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I wonder why or perhaps is true, does she have full faith in me, <\/span><\/p>\n

When their love is true, they share all that’s been or do, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Things held tight to the soul in fear of truthful response break hearts, <\/span><\/p>\n

I had one thousand horses pulling a carriage of steel with titanium parts, <\/span><\/p>\n

To guard the secret held, has such prevented full meld, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Long ago I washed a filth red from my blood stained wrists and hands,<\/span><\/p>\n

Then a dream of lost love brought realization love can’t have demands, <\/span><\/p>\n

Some say love’s a battlefield, I won’t allow such in our field,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Down a slope of cold empty dreams I slid until they were far away, <\/span><\/p>\n

Into a meadow of songbird’s and flowers in a breeze controlled sway, <\/span><\/p>\n

I gathered flowers in for you, only missing a rose of blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I ask now under love’s umbrella forgive my slight for secrets held, <\/span><\/p>\n

Nightmares brought by what wasn’t shared has now been felled, <\/span><\/p>\n

I hold this bouquet of roses, as I present my cutest poses, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Let’s walk with hands held to share this slow waltz of flowers in sway, <\/span><\/p>\n

Nestled in a bed of flowers and and beautiful scented roses I say, <\/span><\/p>\n

You’re more beautiful today, age has made you this way, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Everybody that I know tells me my worth is little if not for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I look at everything and what’s been said their words hold true, <\/span><\/p>\n

If not for you and what you do, I’d be lonesome it’s true, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m surrounded in a world of you exactly where I want and long to be, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time is moving faster through an hourglass no one can find or see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time is slowed through tragedy, but flows quickly when happy, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I rose this morning to a beautiful soul’s vessel sleeping next to me, <\/span><\/p>\n

Again I am blessed to wake each morning into a world filled with beauty, <\/span><\/p>\n

As always I wake to become ii of you, each morning I do, <\/span><\/p>\n

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For within your magnificent carriage of soul is the angel I love, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a world that’s filled with hardship you are my gift from above, <\/span><\/p>\n

You fill my world with wonder, it’s of you I dream in slumber.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat. I love you. <\/span>
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Volume Sixteen<\/span><\/h2>\n
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When First Love<\/span><\/h2>\n

If I could stretch the length of a night I would for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

To stretch the night would mean stretching day time too, <\/span><\/p>\n

A second in time added numerous times equals a bit more, <\/span><\/p>\n

As the hourglass of eternity flows its but sand on the floor, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sand is but dirt to some while to others it’s precious time, <\/span><\/p>\n

For me the sands of time are particles of gold in a rhyme, <\/span><\/p>\n

Used as an expression of my need to lengthen my life, <\/span><\/p>\n

If only a minute times ten I’d happily use it with my wife, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Have you seen her this woman of six decades plus five, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time as used here has passed her by to keep youth alive, <\/span><\/p>\n

I falter in her presence to become weak as when first love, <\/span><\/p>\n

Each day of her beauty gives pause in time to ponder of, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet “when first love” burns freely igniting my heart aflame, <\/span><\/p>\n

The start of true love with such passion is still felt the same, <\/span><\/p>\n

When I look into her beautiful eyes I see our Maker’s hand, <\/span><\/p>\n

Her eyes seem of perfect crystallized glass of colored strand, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Colored gases of space that fill our universe with tinted glow,<\/span><\/p>\n

As each color unites to create her hazel eyes that I love so, <\/span><\/p>\n

I again fall so deeply in love with her I must gush to all I see, <\/span><\/p>\n

The miracle of this rhyme of His hand is that she loves me. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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From Tranquil Waters We Will Begin<\/span><\/p>\n

With your touch my heart sets sail to lands of loves wonder, <\/span><\/p>\n

True my words whispered, my love will never be asunder, <\/span><\/p>\n

Atop tranquil waters sensation of flight is felt on the sea,<\/span><\/p>\n

Tranquility is seldom felt of me but when your beauty I see, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Of you I will never flee as you are my destination to find, <\/span><\/p>\n

Near or afar a magnetic pull upon my heart guides blind, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve closed my eyes and found your lips with no sound,<\/span><\/p>\n

From the sky I’ve jumped yet your pull spun me around,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fading sunlight brings nightlight in tow to be with you again, <\/span><\/p>\n

Although you set at my side I’m anxious for night to begin, <\/span><\/p>\n

My back so bent from burden shows the wear of hard years, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet youth erupts with your look, again you remove my fears,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Again your touch is felt to remove yesterday’s nightmare, <\/span><\/p>\n

From this vessel of loves creation I feel the heart we share, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve touched the surface of tranquil water with a fingertip, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I look into tranquil waters of glass I lose realities grip, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The age upon my face tells me time is beginning to wane, <\/span><\/p>\n

I look upon my past and it brings a sense of warrior shame, <\/span><\/p>\n

Scars upon my soul never depart nor do I feel burdens gone, <\/span><\/p>\n

In angels surround I have found starlight that I can move on, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Each reflection of age tells me of pain and hardship endured, <\/span><\/p>\n

Teardrops are now a daily occurrence of less time assured,<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh the rest of my life, is the rest of my aging life gift enough, <\/span><\/p>\n

If I see her face in the dark will I endure when it’s really tough, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A round of applause as I rise from the ashes once more to prove, <\/span><\/p>\n

In the presence of angels we have power that mountains move<\/span><\/p>\n

In the presence my angels gold see my rust shines to the above,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no gold or precious stones yet how she treasures my love, <\/span><\/p>\n

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There’s something about love I wish to share with all I know, <\/span><\/p>\n

Give all of your heart to her and be assured love will grow, <\/span><\/p>\n

My rust is nearly rusting through yet she see treasure in me, <\/span><\/p>\n

I see her as an angel in rescue of me when I won’t be able to see, <\/span><\/p>\n

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We will dance arm in arm as we hold hands unable to stand, <\/span><\/p>\n

Hopelessly in love forever she will guide me with her hand, <\/span><\/p>\n

To guide me into eternities entry that we will be young again, <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps through a window she’ll see me for our love to begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Footprints of Love (Canopy of Innocence)<\/span><\/p>\n

A canopy of innocence has fallen upon the land in the form of snow,<\/span><\/p>\n

Creating a serene beauty seldom seen in the lifetime most will know,<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon first kiss of you a blanket of snow took away the past I’d known,<\/span><\/p>\n

Within me it was there yet the past man I was would never be shown,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Footprints of love can fade as quickly as those in late spring snow,<\/span><\/p>\n

Where I’ve been with you is etched in stone to be with me where I go,<\/span><\/p>\n

As spring thaw exposes the past it will reveal a path to where I begin,<\/span><\/p>\n

In you I begin, a recreation of a man who will love as no man will again,<\/span><\/p>\n

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With a kiss I was reborn yours in those seconds as I floated away,<\/span><\/p>\n

The innocence of new love found the man hidden in a boy that day,<\/span><\/p>\n

I looked upon the future landscape and it was beautiful to behold,<\/span><\/p>\n

In but a second I saw each season as well as treasures to be my gold,<\/span><\/p>\n

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With great clarity I saw nothing but time holding you in my arms,<\/span><\/p>\n

Desire was there too as I saw myself succumb often to your charms,<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the hills I saw mountains of love reaching far into the sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

Today as I look at those mountains of love, I think, boy did time fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Heart of Stone (Sculpted Heart)<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m surrounded in a room with photographs of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Including of course is a painting or two, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Your beauty overwhelms me as I have to breathe deep, <\/span><\/p>\n

While I hold fast to the Angel in a deep sleep, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lost time creates a fear unknown until these past years, <\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts of surrender brings me to tears, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Words flow from a place of creation that’s tied to my heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fear overwhelms me to think once we part, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A granite heart of my love would take thousands of men, <\/span><\/p>\n

Chiseling away at the stone to the end of when, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The huge size of the heart sculpture would overwhelm all, <\/span><\/p>\n

And influence the masses to heed loves call, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet no matter the size of the granite it cannot stop time, <\/span><\/p>\n

Tears of desperation scream she’s forever mine, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Deep in the realms of time a granite heart breaks in two, <\/span><\/p>\n

From but a thought of ever leaving you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end. For Patti, my beautiful bride.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you my angel. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Of the Kisses I Blew<\/span><\/p>\n

I once blew a soft kiss into space, <\/span><\/p>\n

With a prayer it would lite on her face, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a desperate moment when torment had ripped my soul from inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

Through space I flew to her and watched her sleep as I softly cried, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Applause for the desperate man in need, <\/span><\/p>\n

No matter the distance love will succeed, <\/span><\/p>\n

All the feelings I held so tightly inside with her image pushed in deep, <\/span><\/p>\n

With a dreamed image in my head I danced until I finally found sleep, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Somehow I survived to be here at last, <\/span><\/p>\n

Will I ever be whole or did it come too fast, <\/span><\/p>\n

What’s left in my mind are the pains of desolation telling me I’m all alone, <\/span><\/p>\n

A gift from a land so foreign that loneliness is the only place to call home, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Did you cry for me as a man one night all alone, <\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet angel I have sins of war I must first atone, <\/span><\/p>\n

May I go home now and sleep in my bed or will I find souls of enemy dead, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart and my mind are so burdened of wars sin that my hands are red, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Please don’t ever leave me don’t drive away, <\/span><\/p>\n

It is for you that I survived to stand here today, <\/span><\/p>\n

Told that I’m all alone, to exist as a discard of your love, to start anew, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet my pained heart cries to the wind “that doesn’t sound like you”, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Of the kisses I blew did any find you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Or travel the emptiness of “time that flew”, <\/span><\/p>\n

Should I steal a kiss and run from it all like a thief in the night to hide, <\/span><\/p>\n

Place a casket at the door with tombstone marking the boy that died, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I survived it for you to return as I said, <\/span><\/p>\n

And kiss once more the image in my head, <\/span><\/p>\n

Etched in my face and shown by the gray in my head it was no easy task, <\/span><\/p>\n

But the boy you knew died on a river boat and I’m the remains if they ask, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I promised once more to return to you, <\/span><\/p>\n

With all that I am I will make sure it’s true, <\/span><\/p>\n

For nearly two years I’ve stared deep into the past and clung to your kiss, <\/span><\/p>\n

So many words I sent into space with a whisper of love and treasure this, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Now I stand at your door and you say hello, <\/span><\/p>\n

Inside my head I’m begging you never go, <\/span><\/p>\n

All that I am is mixed into you as I am but the dirt that feeds the crop, <\/span><\/p>\n

The garden to be sewn of our seed has yet to start or will you say stop, <\/span><\/p>\n

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When your smile caught a morning ray,<\/span><\/p>\n

Came a reflection of love to forever stay, <\/span><\/p>\n

It shone through the dark vastness of space to light up the night skies, <\/span><\/p>\n

Reflecting on kisses and whispers of love to be seen as stars by our eyes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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All the kisses I threw with whispers in air, <\/span><\/p>\n

Are lighting the sky as proof my love is there, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I stared backwards in time to find your love the future flew by too fast, <\/span><\/p>\n

And it scared me to death that tomorrow’s love had become our past, <\/span><\/p>\n

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In a moment in time a lifetime was cast, <\/span><\/p>\n

How is it your love makes time move so fast, <\/span><\/p>\n

From a word of hello came the words I had kept locked up inside too long, <\/span><\/p>\n

Please don’t ever leave me my angel after fifty years my love is still strong, <\/span><\/p>\n

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How you’ve loved me is beyond my mind, <\/span><\/p>\n

But a series of lies has made you blind, <\/span><\/p>\n

Eyes closed in the sun denies the heat just as love changes what you see, <\/span><\/p>\n

From far in your past came a man that seen from afar is what’s left of me, <\/span><\/p>\n

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We woke in the night embracing our love, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then danced under the starlight of above, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a series of dreams from long ago, long before I was forced off to war, <\/span><\/p>\n

I danced with you under starlight made of kisses, words of love, and more, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Under a halo of angel kisses and the love word, <\/span><\/p>\n

I whispered love for you loud enough to be heard, <\/span><\/p>\n

And I held you until tomorrow as your beauty brought tears to flow, <\/span><\/p>\n

Of every love story in time ours is the greatest story I will ever know, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The soft smile on your lips tingles my heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

To hold you so tenderly is my life’s best part, <\/span><\/p>\n

I am but a microsecond in time similar to a spark that for a moment did shine, <\/span><\/p>\n

To the rest of the world I am nothing, but only I, am the spark you called mine, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Don’t ever leave me, please don’t ever go, <\/span><\/p>\n

For I am the love that will forever glow, <\/span><\/p>\n

To shine forever at night or in the blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

I am the one that will always love you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Oh how I love you my beautiful little angel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Jewels of His Hand<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve looked into jewels created by His hands to complement you, <\/span><\/p>\n

A color of perfection to identify your beauty sprinkled with blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

Layered crystal with diamond dust collected from heavenly skies, <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s difficult to describe sapphire encircling the hazel of your eyes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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I am forever tied to your beautiful eyes by the flakes of rust inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

From might of steel comes rust found from the many nights I cried, <\/span><\/p>\n

The salt water of tears created oxidation upon the warrior steel, <\/span><\/p>\n

Sensations unknown before yet it was so deeply that I could feel, <\/span><\/p>\n

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At my feet particles of warriors rust fell to rejoin in earth’s cycle, <\/span><\/p>\n

Soon to be dust if not collected by Him in this design of recycle, <\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow I know Our Creator reached forward in time that day, <\/span><\/p>\n

To collect the oxidized steel known as my rust to form your clay, <\/span><\/p>\n

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‘Twas a day of future past as now I understand the words I’ve known, <\/span><\/p>\n

Days of future past are so contradictory yet I understand as shown, <\/span><\/p>\n

In desolation’s hostile environment love struggled to even survive, <\/span><\/p>\n

From deep in my heart I would find you and dreams kept you alive,<\/span><\/p>\n

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We are bound forever in time not of a vow but love’s eternal light, <\/span><\/p>\n

From the jungles of life comes us warriors of love willing to fight, <\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve gazed into your eyes to find fuel and at times from a memory, <\/span><\/p>\n

A touch of your fingertips or your lips creates tingles of sensory,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sensory tingles jettison cares beyond my flesh that I may soar high, <\/span><\/p>\n

Through space and God’s creation I’ve flown as no other man can fly, <\/span><\/p>\n

A look into your eyes allows me to journey space and time instantly, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart takes pause as I project into space losing sight momentarily,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As thoughts of you fuel my flight I find love of your eyes brings speed, <\/span><\/p>\n

More memories of holding you at sunsets door brings want to proceed, <\/span><\/p>\n

Through all the powers in space and time my strength has grown extreme, <\/span><\/p>\n

I project to be at your side then realize as you stand this is not a dream, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Two souls joined as one will feel reciprocal love of unconditional span, <\/span><\/p>\n

And we flew into the night wrapped within the most joy known to man, <\/span><\/p>\n

Travelers of love, space and time before and aft, jointly found and lost, <\/span><\/p>\n

With future and past in existence together we stopped time with cost, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As we exist in halted time our age continues making minutes years, <\/span><\/p>\n

Over forty years had transpired yet the decades didn’t cancel my fears, <\/span><\/p>\n

My worth remains the same in my mind and speeding years brought decay, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I’m still a teenager in love with giddiness bursting out in everything I say, <\/span><\/p>\n

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My mind and spirit forever entwined within you with only my mind free, <\/span><\/p>\n

At last what I sought is found as a new element of love extending of thee, <\/span><\/p>\n

I use the archaic form of you to emphasize the spans of time in sweet bliss, <\/span><\/p>\n

We have found or discovered a higher level of love generated by your kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have a joy shared by none as I gaze into beautiful eyes of distinct creation, <\/span><\/p>\n

With a sweet smile of reciprocal love I am catapulted into a zone of elation, <\/span><\/p>\n

As your tender fingers explore my flesh I cross a threshold of ecstasy’s realm,<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the bliss of love reached by few when sensations of love overwhelm, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Two united as one with free thought, yet to never be freed of the heart shared, <\/span><\/p>\n

Are soul mates one soul divided to learn unity so both sides can be compared, <\/span><\/p>\n

From this level of love are securities few understand as a touch says home, <\/span><\/p>\n

A million miles from nowhere with time being subjective we decide to roam, <\/span><\/p>\n

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The galaxies beyond our own are numerous and solar systems are numerous, <\/span><\/p>\n

There are more blue marbles across the universe yet non are found like us, <\/span><\/p>\n

Words alone cannot describe the beauty of orbs layered with crystal clarity, <\/span><\/p>\n

Sprinkled with flakes of rust then encircled with deep blue to bring intensity, <\/span><\/p>\n

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My idea of the perfect night has occurred sixteen thousand six hundred times, <\/span><\/p>\n

To say any night with you is perfection although hard to find a word that rhymes, <\/span><\/p>\n

Tonight my heart will set sail from a look and your smile and I’ll be taken again, <\/span><\/p>\n

Breath will depart and my heart will take pause with a look, let the night begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti. I love you my beautiful little girl.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I Walked Into the Night<\/span><\/p>\n

I walked into the night with my heart and mind on you,<\/span><\/p>\n

So beautiful it was this night as I walked toward a lake of blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

In my mind every memory and hope of holding you played through,<\/span><\/p>\n

At times tears would drop thinking of lonely and good times too,<\/span><\/p>\n

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This night was so special as a sweet comfort came over me to start,<\/span><\/p>\n

A whisper soft and sweet teased my ear with a message for my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

Flesh and body I was told would soon melt with my heart and mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

Softly her breath upon my ear told me you are the love I hoped to find,<\/span><\/p>\n

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For so long my heart carried the greatest love a heart could endure alone,<\/span><\/p>\n

Again she softly said I am forgiven my war sins I need no longer atone,<\/span><\/p>\n

Let her loving way share the journey and burden you must bear,<\/span><\/p>\n

With shared true love you will soon forget the heavy burden there,<\/span><\/p>\n

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A pale moon reflecting across the wind glistened in near glass,<\/span><\/p>\n

A tear of relief made its way down as I felt the war burden pass,<\/span><\/p>\n

Across the water trees slowly danced in silhouette form against the night,<\/span><\/p>\n

I looked to the night sky where a million jewels danced to my delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The journey has been hard but I would endure it all again for you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving back to Borger and be with you I have waited two years to do,<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t wash the shirt with your scent from where you laid your head,<\/span><\/p>\n

Excitedly I packaged it in plastic wrap and hung it in the closet instead,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Love can dwell for only so long alone before it has to be shared,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking of the girl that asked me to return I just sat and stared,<\/span><\/p>\n

A crickets concerto played in the background as fireflies flew by,<\/span><\/p>\n

Small flickers of star light floating about just below the diamond sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

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In my moonlight serenade with you but in your absence I wore the “shirt”<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of my head with schoolboy love I would wipe or brush away the dirt,<\/span><\/p>\n

Tonight I can look into your eyes from my memory as I know you through,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I walk I imagine I waltz with my arms around and my body next to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh how I long to hold you it has been a week since your sweet kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been through so much but the only thing I can tell you is about this,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoping my blood red hands will wash some day aided unknown by her,<\/span><\/p>\n

The sorrow of my past is mine to keep as I’m told to never confer,<\/span><\/p>\n

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With you near or at my side I have no doubt I can find happiness anew,<\/span><\/p>\n

Just to enjoy a night without horrors memories is something new,<\/span><\/p>\n

As I walked I seemed to follow a special star that called me and you,<\/span><\/p>\n

The angel in my ear said she loves you it’s time to go to her love too,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The greatest cargo I would ever carry is within my heart to give away,<\/span><\/p>\n

The two of you will walk hand in hand while wedding bells play one day,<\/span><\/p>\n

I recalled last November’s request and the promise I gave to you once more,<\/span><\/p>\n

To return to you but it will be the last time as I vow to not leave as before,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The lone star still beckoned to me as if it was meant for me and you,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s strange the things a mind and heart in love can mange to do,<\/span><\/p>\n

Light from above seemed to beam from the lone Texas star that night,<\/span><\/p>\n

The happiest thought came to mind that under that star I’d hold you tight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I walked alone in this heavenly garden growing along the lakeshore,<\/span><\/p>\n

The trees in the dimly lit horizon still danced as in moonbeams from before,<\/span><\/p>\n

The twinkle of stars began to fade into the blue and I welcomed a new day,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking to myself someday I will spend the night with her and I’ll get to stay,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Birds began to fly about and their melodies of attraction sang loud,<\/span><\/p>\n

One more whisper from my visiting angel and she said of me she was proud,<\/span><\/p>\n

This was my night to celebrate independence of hardship from two years past,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your mind and heart has healed the heartache and pain to go love her at last,<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was true as I felt the shackles hold drop away granting sweet release,<\/span><\/p>\n

To hold you in my arms will be the beginning of binds that will never cease,<\/span><\/p>\n

You are the rainbow in my skies to celebrate the tears we’ve cried alone,<\/span><\/p>\n

Through you a rainbow floats above our hearts together we are a home,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The peace of the night is nearly gone as the sun beaks through a new day,<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a celebration in my heart I’ll pick up my paycheck and be on my way,<\/span><\/p>\n

This celebration of personal triumph couldn’t happen without your request,<\/span><\/p>\n

To honor my commitment to you once again made me do my very best,<\/span><\/p>\n

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A slow rising sun gave me time to think of loving you so much more,<\/span><\/p>\n

I told the angels whisper that you will forever be the one I am living for,<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty all about had much more clarity for me as a gift from above,<\/span><\/p>\n

You haven’t said it yet but the greatest gift I could be given is your love<\/span><\/p>\n

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So with clarity of heart and you to be soon in my arms forevermore I sat,<\/span><\/p>\n

Absorbing the significance of the moment I knew I would remember that,<\/span><\/p>\n

A line had been drawn in the sands of time to show I now belonged to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Behind was absence of life or perhaps preparation for my life to start anew.<\/span><\/p>\n

The future was to be forever in love with you. By Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Young Man of a Future Past<\/span><\/p>\n

A young man long ago looked to the future and had something to say,<\/span><\/p>\n

“The greatest cargo I would ever carry is within my heart to give away,”<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve read poetry written by his hand to be overwhelmed by his depth,<\/span><\/p>\n

How can it be I’ve wondered that of his words I have lost my breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The girl he loved in his time must have been special beyond word,<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder how did she react each time his love poems she heard,<\/span><\/p>\n

The stars of Texas skies shown like diamonds he said in his rhymes,<\/span><\/p>\n

But as I have read his works I know how he endured such hard times,<\/span><\/p>\n

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His heart was filled with love as mine has been through times retreat,<\/span><\/p>\n

She and I have been together of love to create Cupid’s greatest feat,<\/span><\/p>\n

“You are the rainbow in my skies to celebrate the tears we’ve cried alone,”<\/span><\/p>\n

Of me, “my seasoned heart says it’s through teardrops the rainbow shone,”<\/span><\/p>\n

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No doubt his words are accurate as through warfare great love survives,<\/span><\/p>\n

Teardrops fell of loneliness and hardship but from her, their love revives,<\/span><\/p>\n

A rainbow is there each day for me as I am the young poet you once knew,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I have given away my precious cargo to carry it each day anew for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end. By Pat<\/span><\/p>\n

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Those young man quotes are from a poem I wrote 46 years ago this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon I’ll be 69 it’s sad to say,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet I will love you more each day,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am lost at time of pain’s extreme,<\/span><\/p>\n

But from you I still have a dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

To be at your side until times end,<\/span><\/p>\n

It is of your love that I can mend.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you. By Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where Teardrops Have Gone (Nuance of You)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh tender little fingers please expose how she truly feels,<\/span><\/p>\n

If you will dance a slight tap dance in my palm so it reveals,<\/span><\/p>\n

That she does love me with every ounce she carries inside, <\/span><\/p>\n

Tap out a message of love so I know I haven’t been denied, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Let me hear too that cute giggle no one has heard but me, <\/span><\/p>\n

Or the nervous clearing of a throat trying to speak clearly, <\/span><\/p>\n

Please lock eyes with me to see hazel eyes touched with blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

Slowly moving across my face to find markers of loving you, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I know every nuance of a childlike voice from within a woman, <\/span><\/p>\n

Every cuteness you exhibit is ingrained forever within this man, <\/span><\/p>\n

In times so momentous of this man’s life each one is clearly seen, <\/span><\/p>\n

During moments of torture although weak my love remained keen, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Burning forever inside as each treasured expression played on, <\/span><\/p>\n

Only you can see the lines of my face where teardrops have gone, <\/span><\/p>\n

Where teardrops have gone should be treasured inside our heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

As well bonds of our melding when stretched to nearly come apart,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anytime you drove by I felt elation mixed with sadness to near cry, <\/span><\/p>\n

So filled with fear you’d never accept my words before warriors die, <\/span><\/p>\n

As each fray came to be entered my heart yearned for your expression, <\/span><\/p>\n

If only you could hear me as I spoke of feelings in my love confession, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

With the gift of a sailor’s hat your heart and mind awoke at last to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the fog of teenage years a woman of sixteen came to be, <\/span><\/p>\n

And with a kiss it was sealed without a word spoken the past was dead, <\/span><\/p>\n

Almost three years of mornings had passed with you first in my head, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Where teardrops have gone are treasured memories of loving you, <\/span><\/p>\n

To see you brought elation although your apprehension made me blue, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet each moment is treasured as through falling sand it came to be, <\/span><\/p>\n

The exact wonderful second when you decided to wait for only me, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I know your heart’s light became brighter as you awaited my return, <\/span><\/p>\n

And I felt it a thousand miles from afar as I felt your love start to burn, <\/span><\/p>\n

From a small flame silently burning to keep love alive from fourteen, <\/span><\/p>\n

The fire of true love ignited as if awoken when you were but sixteen, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was then you realized you’d loved me forever and the fear you felt, <\/span><\/p>\n

Remembering the sensation of love at first sight when you’d near melt, <\/span><\/p>\n

The trembling of your fingers as you stood in a closet next to me,<\/span><\/p>\n

I whispered are you cold in hopes you’d say yes to be held closely, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It seemed your voice would freeze each time you came to my store, <\/span><\/p>\n

Almost every week you came by after asking your mother for more, <\/span><\/p>\n

And you stopped by to tell me the words were no and ask what I’d done, <\/span><\/p>\n

The purity of my past tainted by venomous lies from the rejected one, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Three fights placed a reputation of violence as mine although untrue, <\/span><\/p>\n

That I had known many girlfriends were a lie as I had loved only you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Time has passed to find us deeply in love and the battle goes on, <\/span><\/p>\n

And the spoken lies continue from the one wanting me to be gone, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We have loved the other more with each quickly passing day, <\/span><\/p>\n

And every cuteness you exhibit are even more on love’s display, <\/span><\/p>\n

Even when making love you have such a cute little “love you” sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

When love rages to burn like an inferno each nuance can be found, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your love is a beacon that calls forever to my heart that I’m found, <\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow you have known my presence without hearing a sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

When in your early teens you’d find me although I had just returned, <\/span><\/p>\n

You captured each moment of longing as my lonely heart yearned, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

With your smile and expression I knew why you had found just me, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your love was apparent although unsaid it was clear for me to see, <\/span><\/p>\n

Your mother’s rules were to be honored if I had future plans of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

I realized that I must learn every nuance to help me get through, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Where teardrops have gone is a place of elation although sad too, <\/span><\/p>\n

For without those tears this man wouldn’t realize what he had to do, <\/span><\/p>\n

Loneliness of the draft took me far away but somehow closer to you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Each day for nearly fifty years true love has found something new, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The age in my face and the etchings of teardrops past become unseen, <\/span><\/p>\n

Not from trickery or surgeon skill but from your eyes beautiful gleam, <\/span><\/p>\n

The red flecks in your eyes are said particles of this rusted man, <\/span><\/p>\n

Though you remain gold this rusted steel proudly does what he can, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I pray for more years to love you and enjoy marriage to my wife, <\/span><\/p>\n

How many men celebrate their wedding day each day of his life, <\/span><\/p>\n

I study your actions and characteristics each day in search of new, <\/span><\/p>\n

Along with your tremendous beauty there is so much more of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will stand forever at your side to proudly say I belong to this woman, <\/span><\/p>\n

If needed as a male slave I will tell anyone that I am your pet human, <\/span><\/p>\n

The dancing of your tender fingers will tap a dance one last night, <\/span><\/p>\n

Expressing sweet love for me in anticipation of my final flight. <\/span><\/p>\n

The end. <\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/p>\n

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An Angel Came to Ground<\/span><\/p>\n

One night when heartbreak came to him an angel came to ground, <\/span><\/p>\n

“I want to put a band-aid on your heart,” came the sweetest sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

She was the angel he had known years ago while fighting in a war, <\/span><\/p>\n

Memories of her came flooding back as he prayed for one day more, <\/span><\/p>\n

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So tender was her hand as she prayed he’d fight for will to remain, <\/span><\/p>\n

As teardrops fell she reached for him as true love began to reign, <\/span><\/p>\n

Love took command of two hearts as she appeared in his sight, <\/span><\/p>\n

Wondering still was she real while holding her tender frame tight, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So often his hands had felt her back wondering where are the wings, <\/span><\/p>\n

He swore that when she appeared to him he saw the strangest things, <\/span><\/p>\n

The sky would have a glow he thought from heaven or was it of her, <\/span><\/p>\n

It must be of her he surmised, as he felt her love make his heart stir, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Apparitions he had known since but a boy of eight or nearly so, <\/span><\/p>\n

One day upon a trip to his aunt where the winds are known to blow, <\/span><\/p>\n

The Virgin Mary stood floating in air in front of red roses climbing high, <\/span><\/p>\n

And she showed him an angel of his future that no heart could deny, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Love’s purity entered into this tiny boy’s heart and delighted frame, <\/span><\/p>\n

Telling others of the visions they scoffed and gave youth the blame, <\/span><\/p>\n

To be rebuffed hurt this loving boy but his aunt held him while she said, <\/span><\/p>\n

“I believe you honey” to bond them deep within his heart and his head, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Times passing often heard him say I will be married to a beautiful girl, <\/span><\/p>\n

My goal in life is to marry she so beautiful that is precious like a pearl, <\/span><\/p>\n

Her heart is made to love only me he said and we will love at first sight, <\/span><\/p>\n

His mother became upset at such paltry goals bringing mother’s slight, <\/span><\/p>\n

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When eighteen he came running in and said his angel was finally found, <\/span><\/p>\n

I just know it’s her I have no doubt he said to everyone he saw around, <\/span><\/p>\n

Oh how he loved this girl so deep within his heart her image would dwell, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a future unknown he would see her when war’s dangers would swell, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

His first vision of her essence form or perhaps was it two souls uniting, <\/span><\/p>\n

He remembers leaving his body when exhausted to leave war’s fighting, <\/span><\/p>\n

In her bedroom he stood as she held him tight against naked flesh, <\/span><\/p>\n

He had projected before but never had he felt the sensation of a mesh, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Love of the purist form is when eyes dwell within the soul of their mate, <\/span><\/p>\n

How could such happen when it was upon first sight they could relate, <\/span><\/p>\n

But true was his heart as he knew what he felt and who she would be, <\/span><\/p>\n

He once told friends that someday she would appear and save me, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dreams brought predictions of life’s cessation for kin or friends, <\/span><\/p>\n

He prayed asking God to remove the knowledge of when life ends, <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet remained his ability to see or feel within others at different times, <\/span><\/p>\n

And he saw into her once, she was of purity and sweet nursery rhymes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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His angel, his light at troubles end would guide him through war, <\/span><\/p>\n

The draft returned a spent man that was not the boy of before, <\/span><\/p>\n

What once was gold was now of rusted metal with hardened heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

So brutally treated when detained that shock therapy tore him apart, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He remembered her well as the angel that came to his dirty cell, <\/span><\/p>\n

Pressing her energy into his chest in hopes that death he would repel, <\/span><\/p>\n

He said goodbye to his angel of starlight one morning inside his head, <\/span><\/p>\n

The jolt of electricity overwhelmed his brain leaving memories dead, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Near a zombie unable to move but to sit and drool a teardrop fell, <\/span><\/p>\n

There before his unfocused eyes the Angel of Starlight did dwell, <\/span><\/p>\n

His still swollen face smiled for a moment though his face resisted, <\/span><\/p>\n

She was of his unhealthy mind and told forget her, doctor’s insisted, <\/span><\/p>\n

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He quietly reveled inside his heart as each night star began to shine, <\/span><\/p>\n

He never told them of her return as he was being discharged sometime,<\/span><\/p>\n

An honorable discharge that was earned on waring and enemy soil, <\/span><\/p>\n

He planned to reunite with her physical form and for her he would toil, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The little girl of fourteen was now a beautiful woman of eighteen, <\/span><\/p>\n

Still the same angelic face but definitely the Angel he had seen, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fear crept within his soul that perhaps the doctors knew best, <\/span><\/p>\n

What if she had married in his absence and he failed times test, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps my angels apparition was from my head although seen, <\/span><\/p>\n

Protestors rage, combat, and mistreatment left him weak and lean, <\/span><\/p>\n

Broken by treatment from America’s youth and protestors rage, <\/span><\/p>\n

He’d pull her picture from his wallet as his only relief at this stage, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Finally home but moving away, fear kept him far from her front door, <\/span><\/p>\n

He had prayed but somehow he felt his flame fading from before, <\/span><\/p>\n

In need of his angels form he had prayed to see her just once more, <\/span><\/p>\n

As she always had she found him to reunite and meld at his front door. <\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat for Patti. I love my little angel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Through Teardrops Haze I Plead<\/span><\/p>\n

Words I could never say fell from my lips onto the arms of she I hold,<\/span><\/p>\n

Pray tell, my angel of morning light, why such precious teardrops of gold, <\/span><\/p>\n

Each moment in sorrows pathway strains my heartbeat as if stalled, <\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t you hear the whispered words of love begging my love be recalled, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

See me through your teardrop’s haze I plead as I worship you from aground, <\/span><\/p>\n

Listen carefully I plead my beautiful little girl for it is I whispering love’s sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not of slapping flesh as mine is of purity of heart where true love is found, <\/span><\/p>\n

Mine are of tender whispers in your ear bringing love into the primal sex sound, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hold near my angel as I approach your nape of tenderness to soon light,<\/span><\/p>\n

No don’t I beg as I have been here so may times to be crushed with might, <\/span><\/p>\n

Pleading anxiously that I may be accepted for a tender kiss upon your neck, <\/span><\/p>\n

Having once dwelled there another rejection will make me a nervous wreck, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Teardrops of red have fallen for so long from my heart if only I might kiss, <\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven’s created nape of tender angel’s neck please angel remember this, <\/span><\/p>\n

My poor heart has anguished of this rejection meant for me and me alone, <\/span><\/p>\n

Tell me of my sin against you and with all I am I promise for you I will atone, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I cannot enter heaven’s gate this way as I linger in purgatory for worship of you, <\/span><\/p>\n

And I will give thanks that I have been blessed again with such an angelic view, <\/span><\/p>\n

It is you I see and pray to see forevermore for but a glance is what I now implore, <\/span><\/p>\n

And each time you are removed from my view I exchange pain for a second more, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Please see in me again the man who once placed nape kisses upon you, <\/span><\/p>\n

If only you would reveal the truth and speak words that I know what to do, <\/span><\/p>\n

For I will do absolutely anything to know such privilege as your nape to kiss, <\/span><\/p>\n

I pray you realize there will be a day when my devoted love, you will miss, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Please remove your beauty from age’s sight as your youth retains itself true, <\/span><\/p>\n

Shed no tear my beautiful little one for worry of wasted time is not a worthy view, <\/span><\/p>\n

Gold enriched teardrops of angelic hazel eyes are a treasured part of my esteem,<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a man with such worth that one precious drop of gold could fall is a dream, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yet why would any man want such beautiful eyes to know teardrop’s sorrow, <\/span><\/p>\n

To be the man of such worth would be the man that prays all tears be tomorrow, <\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow is nonexistent thus my desire of teardrops to fall in the distant future, <\/span><\/p>\n

Much preferred would be that droplets of red fall from my pierced heart’s suture, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From my heart let droplets of blood flow as a result of protecting your heart, <\/span><\/p>\n

To form a golden red mixture of my blood droplet and your gold teardrop’s part, <\/span><\/p>\n

Golden laced teardrops of love brought by love’s sorrow as my heart bled for you, <\/span><\/p>\n

Of which my heart bled in attempt to prevent what you were going through, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A never ending loop of love as one love follows the other to express and protect, <\/span><\/p>\n

From this bond of warrior’s heart and and angelic eyes comes a bond to erect, <\/span><\/p>\n

Erected as a portrait in time of the angel watching over her warrior to the end, <\/span><\/p>\n

And he the warrior willing to give it all in love of her until at last two souls blend. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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1969 For You I Linger<\/span><\/p>\n

I will linger in wait until you realize all my words are true, <\/span><\/p>\n

Everywhere you go I pray thoughts of loving me are in you, <\/span><\/p>\n

For so very long I have said I love you what more can I do, <\/span><\/p>\n

Of your beauty are borne tales of a secret love that’s taboo, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When I first set my eyes on you I knew I wanted you near, <\/span><\/p>\n

My home will be where you are I hope I’ve made this clear, <\/span><\/p>\n

Now I know the meaning of music and the love songs I hear, <\/span><\/p>\n

Traveling earth I’ve seen you as an angel when you appear, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Anywhere you go I am tethered to you by a magic thread, <\/span><\/p>\n

Temptations will haunt you while I’m away, love me instead, <\/span><\/p>\n

The fear etched in my face is not about coming home dead, <\/span><\/p>\n

In a garden sewn of our love I’ll give you no reason to dread, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will linger in wait although you fear I will never come home, <\/span><\/p>\n

For you another world of me exists that you have never known, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart lingers in moments of long ago when on Texas loam, <\/span><\/p>\n

In two seconds of sight my heart was captured by you to own, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now you know that forever on earth I’m in wait to be your man, <\/span><\/p>\n

Just to catch a view of you I will linger nearby whenever I can, <\/span><\/p>\n

I will linger in wait until you remember I vowed to be your man, <\/span><\/p>\n

Am I the haunting soul of a stalker or do I belong as we began, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When I set my eyes on you I may faint or cry as never before, <\/span><\/p>\n

In saran you’ve been safely tucked as I had no means to store,<\/span><\/p>\n

I lingered a moment as a teardrop of dehydration hit the floor, <\/span><\/p>\n

Oh so very thirsty yet I licked clean your photo driven by amour, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And then I lingered to watch us dance on air in light of the night, <\/span><\/p>\n

To a man near death you were redemption from deep in the light, <\/span><\/p>\n

For a lifetime I would linger in pain for just a year to get it right, <\/span><\/p>\n

Soon I will be near yet I fear more than a man in a combat fight, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If only I could touch your tender lips to mine I know I’ll marry you, <\/span><\/p>\n

The memory of our lingering kiss upon a bed has got me through, <\/span><\/p>\n

Nightmares of men raging in combat as dragons belched fire too, <\/span><\/p>\n

Napalm beasts belching into the air almost took me away from you, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A thought of you returns me to the dance floor of love in Texas air, <\/span><\/p>\n

Please wait a few days more as the weakened me will soon be there, <\/span><\/p>\n

Linger but a moment and find the boy you love under graying hair, <\/span><\/p>\n

All innocence is gone but if you look deep I am the ‘I love you stare’, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As a teardrop falls to earth in a cycle of replenishment I atone, <\/span><\/p>\n

Please linger with me in a place of existence we call our home, <\/span><\/p>\n

Say hello with a sigh of relief and call me your man, “your own,”<\/span><\/p>\n

We will be married my angel it’s something I’ve always known, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will linger forever and a day as your man with feelings of pride, <\/span><\/p>\n

When my time has come I will linger as a guardian at your side,<\/span><\/p>\n

In a place unknown I will take your hand for a last slow waltz glide, <\/span><\/p>\n

Then wait at heaven’s gate to ask ‘will you be my heavenly bride’. <\/span><\/p>\n

The end. I love you Patti. By Pat King. Written the Fall of 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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