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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2009-02-12 01:27 PM

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

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2009-02-12 01:33 PM

Yo dear Owl,

This is very fine work, I must admit.

Love Bobby

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

2 posted 2009-02-12 01:39 PM

this is the nicest valentine i have EVER read
it makes me cry

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

3 posted 2009-02-12 01:40 PM

oops forgot to save it
to savor it again

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

4 posted 2009-02-12 02:19 PM

A cornucopia of splendor in transcendent verse! I'll leave it there, lest I mar its beauty with inadequate words!

art

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2009-02-12 02:22 PM

I think it is a wonderful write about love, you explore the environment of love in a passionnate view and absolute clearness, the way you admit some truths and abandon some being is really awesome, I will add this one to my favourite...Thank you for the poem.

yann

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2009-02-12 02:32 PM

Stunning write, Diana!
Wow, this is a love write that should win any heart!

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

7 posted 2009-02-12 02:34 PM

Absolutely wonderful...

it's a

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

8 posted 2009-02-12 03:08 PM

Thanks Bobby.

Thank you, Helen.  I didn’t think of it as a valentine, neither back then, nor now, but that is a lovely thought.  Thanks for your kind words.  Glad you enjoyed it.

Wow, Art!  Thanks.

Thank you, Yann.  I am glad you enjoyed it so much.

Thanks, Kacy . . . I didn’t want to admit this before the 14th and spoil what Helen or you thought of it, but when I presented the poem to him all those 17 years ago, he said (and these are probably his exact words) “I can’t comment on it because I don’t know anything about poetry.”  I think it is telling that I remember what he said, in spite of our relationship lasting another 3 years!

Thanks, Karilea for thinking the poem is a keeper.  The guy wasn’t though.

Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

9 posted 2009-02-12 05:19 PM

Wow, dear Diana, this is a very special love song and testifies of a wonderful moment of inspiration. A moment that caught eternity and shone.

Even if he isn't "your All" anymore, he was a precious gift, as is your poem to us!

I imagine the long face you made when he made that comment. A poet needs a poet to be understood, no doubt!

Love and hugs, dear Poet!

Margherita

Oklahoma Rose
Senior Member

since 2008-02-28

Posts 1586
Oklahoma USA

10 posted 2009-02-12 10:38 PM

Quote:
"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."

Oh How I like that thought. If I could just find Mr. Right, maybe I would experience this.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

11 posted 2009-02-12 11:21 PM

What a valentine, Diana!

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

12 posted 2009-02-13 10:49 AM

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.

To have this, even for a while... is to remember forever. *S* Beautiful work!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

13 posted 2009-02-13 11:56 AM

Thank you Margherita for your very kind words, for enjoying the poem and for reading all the responses. Actually I didn¡¦t show the long face, I just felt it. I can¡¦t remember what I replied, but whatever it was, it hid my disappointment. Thank you for the kindness (for which you are famous!). Yes, it was good to feel that way. I would rather have been me in the relationship than him for many, many reasons ¡V some humorous and some not.

Thank you Sue. I hope you do. ƒº

Thank you, Ida.

Yes, it all made good memories, Ruth, most of them very good ones, and the not-so-good ones have mellowed with time.

Owl

[This message has been edited by OwlSA (02-14-2009 02:03 AM).]

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

14 posted 2009-02-13 09:38 PM

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.

Top accolades for your touching Valentine
dear Diana, a delight to read. love

Lindsay

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

15 posted 2009-02-14 02:09 AM

Thanks, Lindsay. I wrote it 16 and a bit years ago in November and didn't realise Valentine's Day was coming up when I posted it and didn't think of it in that connection either, but I am happy that people are enjoying it as a Valentine's Day poem.

I have just written and posted a scrappy and unartistic, but sincere poem for Valentine's Day called "Solution to Lovelessness".

Owl

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

16 posted 2009-02-14 03:55 PM

Wonderful metaphorical work just packed full of passion and powerful but tender expressions.....I have come to know you as such a person.

This is a heart warming read!

Eric

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

17 posted 2009-02-14 03:58 PM

May we all have a man who is all that!

I could feel the energy and passion in your words!

Love to you, this Valentine's Day!

Linda

Boshii2
Member

since 2009-02-01

Posts 146

18 posted 2009-02-14 05:25 PM

I just want to sit under your poem for a while.
Sighing.

Thank you.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

19 posted 2009-02-15 02:39 AM

Thank you, Eric, for your kind words.

Thank you, Linda. Yes it would be great wouldn't it!

Thank you, Boshii2. I am glad that I could provide you shade from the blazing sun, or shelter from the freezing winds, depending on where you are.

Owl

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