Ok so I posted this last night and then freaked and removed it, cos was generally really anxious last night. But this thread is full of creative sharing and writing is my thing so am sharing again and probably won't remove thus time Lol
Feel like sharing a couple of my poems... First one written a year before I met my wife, and at the beginning of the end of my first marriage, on flight back from writing trip to Chicago, first time I'd been to US. Second, just after I met her and at start of divorce.
I haven't shared any writing for a good year and my blog has been offline, but this forum has been a huge support to me and i just felt like I wanted to share something of what all this means to me.
Chasing Dawn
Sunsets over Michigan
we climb 40000 feet colder
overtaking night to light
new shores
impatient for the day
now that eyes
open
drink in
CRY OUT
for more
dawns
too many missed
too few remain
tantalising
as they unveil
shadows
laying us naked
to our begin.
Fierce
For the women I love – love is never lost
Patient and kind, perhaps, but love is fierce
Striking down, dredging up
She hasn’t finished with you yet
Because you still don’t know
Completely
She delights in everything you ever were
Everything you never were
She understands who you will be
As you resist, just a little
Still .
She laughs out loud when you ‘Can’t *bleep***g stand them’
Stands firm by your side when, “They did what?!’
Nudges you back in balance
And lives to see your joy
Yes yours
Love forgives ‘cos what else is there?
She knows the worst of you
Draws the best in you
When all else fails she simply sits by you
Until you re-member
Love does not grasp
Yet when she takes hold
You may as well throw back you arms
‘Cos nothing and no-one will stand in her way
Until you re-member
Soft, love is not
Though she can dress as a warm blanket
Or a bowl of soup when you ‘don’t feel so good’
But she will take you or let you go
Before you know you are ready
Fearless, love reaches in to crack you open
You cannot block her, she’s right there inside you
‘But I WAS open’
You haven’t seen anything yet
Because you STILL don’t know
Love learns
How you like your tea
How you micro-research every purchase, or you don’t
How you fail, how you rise
Still
Love grabs you, pulls you to her
Dare look into her eyes
And you may as well throw back your arms
‘Cos you are hers
Completely
Love is an unfamilar voice in your head
Who tells you it’s OK, you’re OK
Laughs when ‘You did what?!’
And fondly steers you back on course
Until you re-member
Love wants to play with you forever and a day
She is boundless and bounding and bonds like no other
And she will fight you to the death
When everything you want is
To give up the fight in her arms
Love gives you pleasure
She strokes the air around you until every cell wakes up
And your cries of ‘mercy’ are drowned by throes of passion
Until you re-member
Completely
Surrender
Completely
Because you STILL don’t remember
Completely
You are YOURS