And Love You All Over Again (from Faces of Love)

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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2012-11-03 11:56 PM

And Love You All Over Again
(from Faces of Love)

Years ago,
a long time past,
I carved my name on a tree.

Sometime later I carved yours,

and we both went away.

I forgot where we had stood
in the beam of sun
we named our own,
and said the words that bound us.
I forgot, you,
until the day you send a box
with part of a tree,
precisely carved,
that had fallen and died.

I dug your picture
out of the farthest reaches of a drawer,
at the bottom of my dresser,
under everything,
hidden, forgotten, gone.

Many years ago
you looked like this,
and I,
standing next to you,
looked like that.

We loved,
but weren't lovers.
We kissed, we hugged,
did all the little things
people in love do,

but we weren't lovers.

Until today,

when I received a box,
with part of a tree
that had fallen and died,
and a note
that made me cry,

and love you
all over,
again.

©wesley james beard, jr.
september, 2012

[This message has been edited by jwesley (11-04-2012 12:35 AM).]

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

1 posted 2012-11-04 12:14 PM

This is so sweet.Love it.jo

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-11-04 05:13 AM

Damn, J, you came close to making an old hard-nosed old man blubber.

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

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2012-11-04 07:19 AM

Put a lump in my throat too J!

lori

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2012-11-04 10:49 AM

so sweet, thanks a lot, a gorgeous idea,

yann

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

5 posted 2012-11-04 02:13 PM

Very touching J...as always. I love your Faces of Love poems.

~Victoria~

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

6 posted 2012-11-04 06:09 PM

I find this taking me back to a place only soulmates know of. I love it.

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

7 posted 2012-11-05 08:59 AM

Your writing reminds of how we are one with nature, how two lives are eternally woven within the life cycle of that special tree.

I enjoyed this very much.

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

8 posted 2012-11-05 02:37 PM

I had to write in the pavement since I grew up in the city, not too many trees.
Enjoyed reading J. The pavement weighs too much to mail ha.

~V~

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

9 posted 2012-12-14 11:50 AM

This may be your best series... every one reaches deeper into my heart! *S*

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

10 posted 2012-12-17 11:11 PM

Delicious...James

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