A Birthday

• Y heart is like a singing bird

  Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;

  My heart is like an apple-tree

  Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;

  My heart is like a rainbow shell

  That paddles in a halcyon sea;

  My heart is gladder than all these,

  Because my love is come to me.

  Raise me a daïs of silk and down;

  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

  Carve it in doves and pomegranates,

  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

  Work it in gold and silver grapes,

  In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

  Because the birthday of my life

  Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

One day I drifted into meditation, the sounds of the room falling  away as I drifted with my thoughts. I felt my body lighten and my breathing grow quiet.  It was then I saw you, your face before my eyes, smiling. Behind you was a hand that beckoned  and I felt myself  become light as a feather, cradled by a swirl of gray mist.  To this day I do not know what would have  followed, as startled  and  slightly  afraid,  I grabbed hold of the  things around me and returned from wherever I had gone.  I have often thought about that day, that early meditation and how powerful it was, and I wonder when you will come again.

You call me with a quiet voice, like a gentle love song,

and I answer, finding you in dreams.

Unfinished Thoughts

As I look upon the moon just before sunrise I  think perhaps you had gazed upon her as well in the hours before me.   She fills me with words, this moon, and you .  But then you have always made my heart laugh and my spirit dance.  There is so much I want to say to you, things I have  wanted to tell you about this place in my soul hidden from all others.   Perhaps it was only yours to find.

Letters

Tonight I was thinking of the quiet way talk through such small things, words spoken between words, letters and poetry drifting through time and space.  A simple letter but so powerful finding the way across oceans, carrying so much, written with few words.  But I have heard you from the first day I found you, between the words and beyond the page.   Where have you been? I have missed the sound of your voice.

Strange how I can feel you so near, so much more than anyone.  I am floating in the bliss of your presence. Do not leave my side but let me dream in it a bit longer.

How could I be anywhere but by your side

You are the weaver of  love around my heart

and the voice that whispers from my soul.

There could never be another, not ever.

you must know this to be true.

The Earth Grows Fragrant

The earth grows fragrant in the evening shadows –
So sweet the flowers' breath is and so light,
And from the dreamland of a bygone springtime
You come again to visit me tonight.

An anxious thought once more disturbs my spirit,
A blissful joy is glowing in my eyes.
Words fade away, only a distant echo
Repeats your name, the name my heart still cries.

With my whole being I can sense your presence,
To earth you bring the fragrance of a dream,
You are a lambent light whose rays of wonder
Tonight into my sombre bosom stream.

Though far away you are, at this great distance
You are as ever my longed-for delight
Emerging like a fairy queen of dreamland
Amid the fragrant shadows of the night.

Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas

True Love

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

Lies about Love

We are a liars, because
the truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow,
whereas letters are fixed,
and we live by the letter of truth.
The love I feel for my love, this year,
is different from the love I felt last year.
If it were not so, it would be a lie.
Yet we reiterate love! love! love!
as if it were a coin with a fixed value
instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

D H Lawrence