If Only

If only you were here tonight
I would not feel so all alone.
If I could hear your voice
or the beating of your heart,
my night would pass
in gentle sleep and dreams.

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The Awakening

In the early dawn of happiness
you gave me three kisses
so that I would wake up
to this moment of love
I tried to remember in my heart
what I’d dreamt about
during the night
before I became aware
of this moving
of life
I found my dreams
but the moon took me away
It lifted me up to the firmament
and suspended me there
I saw how [...]

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As The Wind Blows

As I listen to the wind blow,
softly rustling the leaves
I can hear your voice
as it carries in the air,
waiting there
like the pause before the summer rain.
I am filled with words today,
words that wait
to be heard only by you,
and my heart aches
with familiar longing
that grows stronger
with the sunset.

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The Journal

Last night I sat by candlelight
something magical don’t you think?
The candles shimmered,
their silhouettes dancing
in the shadows.
As I watched the light play
I started writing
a journal for you.
I started from the beginning
describing how it all started
the first time I saw you
what I felt, and didn’t feel
how it grew
and how it surprised me.
I remembered it [...]

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The Butterfly and the Rose

i walk the dream
where the street
breathes in the shadow
of moon-light,
the lovers night.
oh, sweet love
long time coming
longer time whispering
us free.
i sing your eyes
as willows
stretching into
the ever passing winds
i speak the words of my heart
i sing the songs of my dreams
i see in the water
your image
and it’s true…
as i ride the butterfly,
i offer the rose.
W. Jude Aher

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When You Dream

When you dream, do you remember me, or do you dream the dreams of this life alone?

When you sleep do you hear my whispers or do they blend with the sounds of the night air, forgotten on a breeze?
One day I had a dream and I remembered you and now my dreams are of many [...]

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Wear Something Blue

Some days I find myself frustrated, filled with words I want to say and yet as I write them, I choke on those very words. Perhaps they are not meant to be on the page as someone had once said. Perhaps they are meant to be said to you and you alone. I [...]

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Longing

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
Come, as thou cam’st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me.
Or, as thou never cam’st in sooth,
Come [...]

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The Beginning

Last night I started working on something about November. It came to me as I was drifting off the night before and the words wove themselves into something beautiful. As I began to write I became tangled in the words and they unraveled from the splendor they had been on that previous night.
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To A Stranger

To a Stranger
Passing stranger! you do not know
How longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking,
Or she I was seeking
(It comes to me as a dream)
I have somewhere surely
Lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall’d as we flit by each other,
Fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
You grew up with me,
Were a boy [...]

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