Saturday, April 9, 2011
Short, Sweet Ride
Some people say it’s a long road
This journey they are on
They look with drooping shoulders
Into the great beyond
But darling, let me tell you
What I feel deep inside
Knowing you and loving you
Has been a short, sweet ride
I hear folk say that life is hard
They call it living hell
But I’ve been close to heaven
When the night is soft and still
In your arms I’ve tasted
Life’s warm and kinder side
And darling, somehow you make
This life a short, sweet ride
I could not bear this journey
It would be long and hard
If you did not love me
Then soon I would be tired
I could not bear this journey
Without you at me side
But darling, if you love me
It will be a short, sweet ride
Janet~
All I Know
I can’t turn water into wine
Sometimes I wish I could
Clouds don’t turn into sunshine
Just because I wish they would
I don’t think wrinkles are a sin
And I make no apologies
I’ve earned the skin that I am in
Worth is not defined by these
I don’t know what the future holds
But we get older every day
As minutes and hours unfold
It sweeps the glow of youth away
I don’t know what I will face
As the years dissolve like snow
All I really know is this
Love is ageless and I love you so
True love, they say is like fine wine
Growing better year by year
You could be no love of mine
If with age love would disappear
I don’t know if we’ll survive
Darling, all I really know
Is every day that I’m alive
I’ll do my best to love you so
Janet~
Jim just told me he wishes someone would have prepared him for this ‘getting older’ thing and that he is not impressed.
I told him I don’t think anyone can prepare us even if they would want to.
To each one of us it is our own personal journey
Some Days
On some days the hands that I hold are enough
I’m grateful through and through
Complete, complete in a moment of love…
…but on some days I wish it was you
On some days love is lithesome and fair
The sky is perfect blue
On some days I become keenly aware…
…that on some days I wish it was you
J~
Tool
I write and I write and I write
An insatiable appetite
Everywhere, it seems to me
A poem hovers, waiting to be
Can I grasp with humble line
The thought I seek to define?
Twenty-six letters, my tool
A pen-stroke away from the fool
Wisdom and filth are aligned
In the tip of a quill and the mind
What a privilege to hold in my hand
This powerful tool; a pen
Janet~
Friday, April 8, 2011
As Naturally as Breathing
No more have I the power to force love
Than I am able to draw the flower from a bud
If I could force love then I know that I
Could coax from the cocoon, a butterfly
I cannot insist that you love me
Love is the eternal mystery
Beyond reason and beyond measure
It is the foundation of life’s richest treasure
My dear, if I could then I would tell you
Why I love you the way I do
But I cannot; I know only this
Loving you is my bitter-sweet bliss
Loving you comes as naturally as breathing
I don’t contemplate its rhyme or reason
And if you should in return love me
I would humbly reply, my dear, I thank thee
J~
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Those Thoughts of You
Those thoughts of you…
Sometimes they waft like a song in the air
Or prey on my mind like an unspoken prayer
Sometimes they march in an orderly line
And sometimes they trickle in drops down my spine
Sometimes those thoughts of you simply hover
Above and around me; an intangible cover
Sometimes they’re the face I am calmly tracing
And sometimes they set my pulses racing
Sometimes it’s thoughts of you that keep
Me awake; sometimes they lull me to sleep
A quiver, a shiver, cascading then calm
Closer than ever, your heart in my palm
Love me, love me not; it’s the game they play
But they will not, oh just will not stay away
Janet~
Dreamer
Once, not so very long ago
T’was I who would sit here, you know
Bare-feet dangling in the air
Best friends came in teddy bears
How was I, pray tell, to know
Just how fast the years would flow?
Once when I was just like you
I could be a dreamer too
But time can be a ruthless stream
Tearing from the heart, a dream
I smile to see you sitting there
Once I was you, without a care
Janet~
Song of the Night
It drifts from the shore
A melancholy tune
Sung by the stars
and the man in the moon
It ripples the fields
Of silver grass
Nature’s piano
and it’s first-class
I hear its soft strain
In the breezes that sigh
A soulful refrain
Trickling ‘cross the sky
It moans in the alley
And on the dark street
Weeps in the valley
Aches in each heart-beat
A wordless symphony
Permeating the air
Resonating deeply
Like the peace in a prayer
The music fades
A hush descends
Quietly I plead
Won’t you play it again?
Janet~
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