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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-11-02 10:33 PM


I like it when the word
love
doesn't get in the way
and make things more intense
taking all the fun out of it
I like it when I can say
I like you . . .
and it be true
which in many cases the "love"
word makes you lie
I like it that I have nothing to prove
no challenge facing me
to establish myself
which so many times is
a recipe for failure
I like it that we can be ourselves
tell each other secrets
knowing it won't come back to us
in the form of rebuke
or
thrown up for spite

I like it when
when all I have to say
is . . .
that I like you

©November 2, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton


They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree,
Do you think he would squander souls?

© Copyright 2011 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
1 posted 2011-11-02 11:02 PM


Truth in that, my friend, but I was always such a push-over...I loved them all (still do for that matter)!!!

j.

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2011-11-02 11:10 PM


Yeah, I always was too, but this is different. Thank you very much for showing her here at my digs.

They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree,
Do you think he would squander souls?

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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3 posted 2011-11-03 06:16 AM


...That's the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it...Gotta love it! Happy for you Jerry

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
4 posted 2011-11-03 08:16 AM


Thank you, Lori. I appreciate it.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

suthern
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5 posted 2011-11-03 08:48 AM


I like it that we can be ourselves
tell each other secrets
knowing it won't come back to us
in the form of rebuke
or
thrown up for spite

I hope it can be that way always... regardless of what words are used. This is beautiful!!!

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
6 posted 2011-11-03 11:47 AM


Thank you, suthern, I hope so too, and I have a strong feeling that it will.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
7 posted 2011-11-03 06:00 PM


"no challenge facing me
to establish myself
which so many times is
a recipe for failure"

Man, the truth in that verse!

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
8 posted 2011-11-03 06:22 PM


Yeah, we can't always be Superman / Appreciate you visiting my poem.
Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
9 posted 2011-11-03 06:30 PM


I like like liking you...


JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
10 posted 2011-11-03 06:57 PM


Well thank you, Sunshine, I like you liking me too. Appreciate the visit.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

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