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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-03-11 10:25 AM

MY ALL
November 1992

You are the birth of dawn colours
splashed across my eager sky,
that thrill my waking
and invite me to another day.

You are my early mornings
of wet grass,
bus stops,
bird calls,
and the pulse of man, machine and time in motion.

You are my golden afternoons
of unhurried sunshine,
feeding ducks,
holding hands
and watching busy weavers and darting swallows.

You are my quiet evenings
of silver moonshine, snow-tipped waves,
shared thoughts,
quiet moments
and the crisp, cool crunch of beachsand underfoot.

You are my long, black velvet nights
of star-sprinkled skies,
darting bats,
grey shapes of pot plants
and sensual breezes on hot skin.

You have taught my soul
to taste the wind,
to float,
to dive,
to fight,
to win,
to hover,
to acquiesce.

You have warmed my smile
and filled out the hollows
of my face.

You have given shape to my dreams
and shared your own with me.

You have dissolved my confusion
and are my solution.

You have penetrated my being
and known me
in every way imaginable,
and understood and liked what you have found.

You have accepted my love
and allowed me to lavish it upon you.
You have welcomed and appreciated it
in a way that I need you to.

You are the pillow beneath my headache,
the haven when I can no more,
the fountain for my thirst
and the honey for my hunger.

You have invited me into your life
and allowed my pride in your successes
and my pain in your troubles.

You have joined me in my nature walk
and listened and watched and noticed all with me.

You have heightened my ecstasies
and washed away my fears.

You have destroyed my passion for Solitude
and replaced it with my passion for You.
You have given me your love
and we have met in body, mind and soul.

I admire your strengths
but want to protect you most
when you are vulnerable -
and always, but especially then,
I can no more hurt you in the smallest way,
than I can hack off my arms and legs
with a blunt butter knife.

You are my light,
my colour,
my optimism,
my free spirit,
the sea air in my nostrils,
the salt on my tongue,
the breeze on my back,
the water lapping at my feet,
the gulls calling
and wheeling above me in the sky.
You are real.
You are everything to me.
You are
my man.

Owl

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2011-03-11 10:34 AM

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

and this was warm socks on cold feet.

All that I have wished for you, my friend, and more. This reads like a vow.

Beautiful.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2011-03-11 10:53 AM

Thanks, Karen, my dear friend. Unfortunately that was a long time ago, and it only lasted 3 years and it wasn't like that the full 3 years. But thanks for the wishes. Smiles.

Owl

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2011-03-11 05:10 PM

The beginnings are always magical, Diana.
Sometimes it is okay to appreciate that, and
I for one am glad you posted this. It is
like a love song.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-03-11 08:55 PM

What a wonderful word ride you took us on as you counted, one by one, the reasons you were writing this ultra complimentary piece of poetical praise.

~ After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles." ~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2011-03-12 02:46 AM

Thanks, Karilea, for your kind words. Yes, I suppose so, but wouldn’t it be nice if both parties can always maintain that. Of course, there are diverse reasons which are interesting to dissect, for that not happening.

Thanks, Jerry. I am glad you enjoyed the ride! Smiles.

Owl

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