BOUND FOREVER

 

 

Could there have been another

equally as captivating for my life

as you

Perhaps, but I’ll never know

since we were bound together

forever

by an indefinable potion:

Our love

 

 

FAR HORIZON, a poem

 

Unasked and unexpected,

the warning came from the seer:

“Your love ends at the horizon”

Dumfounded, we continued on

 

Married as we were,

we wondered at times

would we ever reach

that far horizon

 

The edge of the universe

remained forever distant

as we struggled through life,

luckily with lasting love

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ROMANCE

 

Romance is the sauce,

Love is the substance

Together they make

two lives worth living

 

Lingering like a seed,

bursting into glory

when two bodies are joined

in carnal connection

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A MYSTERY of LOVE

 

She was not the most beautiful,

he was far from the handsomest

In first meeting,

they were linked

 

Everything fades,

the day into night,

youth into age

Love often declines,

theirs never did

 

Clearly, a mystery

How do some loves survive

while many others don’t

They didn’t seek the answer,

just enjoyed the outcome

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ENTHRALLED, a poem

 

If perfection be a thought

Then I’ll think of thee as such

I’ll raise you to a Goddess

I’ll drop myself to dust

The sun shall be your subject

The moon shall be your throne

Your heaven shall exist

Within my mind

May it ever be your home

(Note: I wrote this poem 68 years ago when I was 19.

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A JACKET'S JOURNEY, a poem

 

Together for four decades,

our destinies are coupled

When his aging soul departs

will I be torn into rags

before being discarded

 

Born in a sweat shop,

mostly blue and gray,

a woman who loved him

presented me to him

He named me ‘my jacket’

 

Every cool morning,

he always put me on,

relishing my warmth

Oh, how he treasures me

He named me ‘my jacket’

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WOMAN EMERGING

 

The wedding was great

The best way to mate

The lovely children came

The results of the game

 

Make us breakfast

And dinner too

Pack the lunches

Don’t feel blue

 

Go ride the second wave

To virtual freedom

As long as you don’t drown

Me inadvertently

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THE ANSWER, a poem

 

How can I explain

My love for you?

Your beauty

Your smile

Your disposition

Your kindness

Your happiness

Those ingredients

Glued us together

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HAPPY WEATHER, a poem

 

One day, I looked at Ginger

and realized how happy she was,

full of smiles, content, energy  

very much in love with me.

It is against human nature

to continue like that all the time.

Like the weather around us,

there are beautiful days

of perfect temperature, soft sunshine

with crisp clouds in azure skies

 

The threatening storms

with fierce winds

and frightening lightning.

Are bound to come

And they do

And they pass

 

 

HAPPY COUPLE

 

          A kiss upon waking

          What a wonderful way

          To begin every day

          Familiar tongues touching

          In sex sensual play

 

          Coming in the door

          After a long day

          Of tedious work

          The welcoming kiss

          a delightful perk

 

          Dinner with wine

Talk of our day

          Climbing the stairs

          Into our bed

          for sleep and play

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HER SMILE, a poem

 

Her sparkling smile

brightens my world

like a burst of spring

after a grim winter

 

The sap of desire

flows within me

flooding my being

with hunger for her

 

Her happy expression

creates an environment

in which we flourish

nurturing our love

 

         

A GOURMET FEAST

For the fortunate

          a gourmet feast

          For the others

a fast food treat

          Making love is a miracle

          Having sex is a venture

          Lovers are soulmates

          for a moment or forever

          A loveless connection

          is an ephemeral pleasure

          Love happens

          Sex is a choice

MOURNING, a poem

          I should have mourned her

          when she fell into the abyss

          three torturous years ago

          leaving only forlorn cries

          for a life that once was hers

          I want to go home

          Why am I like this

          Did I do something wrong

          Nobody likes me

          Don’t kill me

          Don’t leave me

          Her sad pleas are silenced

          my heart forever torn

          the time has come to mourn

          she remains in my mind

          lovely, caring, refined

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FLESH to ASHES

         The photos of the woman

          I loved and still do

          are arrayed on a table

          by the bed we shared

          Her flesh has turned to ashes

          Her flesh in that bed

          was a silky warmth

          addictively wonderful

          nightly available until

          her flesh was turned to ashes

          My memory of her in life

          is welded in my consciousness

          Her talk, her touch, her presence

          living with me still, although

          her flesh has turned to ashes

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LASTING LOVE, a poem

          Infatuation is easy

          like whipped cream

          a sweet taste of love

          a joy to the senses

          a passing sensation

         

          Lust evolves into love

          a mysterious change

          a touch of magic

          making the ephemeral 

          an enduring connection

          Unless often nourished

          by sexual delight

          the flame of true love

          fades into a staid

          dull companionship  

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SITTING in SILENCE, a poem

SITTING in SILENCE

So many couples sitting

in silence in restaurants

We always spoke

engaged in sweet conversation

looking into each other’s eyes

Why an absence of dialogue?

their disconnected lives speaking?

We were joined

in lively discourse

reflecting our love

Having eaten and paid the bill

they exit to their dreariness

We connected again

in the privacy

of our lovely home

(April 4, 2017)

Thoughts on Singled Out by Julie Lawford

In Julie Crawford’s novel, ‘Singled Out’, a bevy of British singles spend a holiday in search of love, sex, escape and adventure. The novel delivers all to a crowd of horney women, willing men including a coward, a minor hero, an a now-familiar preditor. The central character, I wouldn’t call her the protagonist, is self-righteous and guilt-ridden, with a tendency to dominate and investigate those around her. She is a wonderfully different snoop.

I always look for themes or truths in a serious novels, and this is a serious novel. What does ‘Singled Out’ tell us: Love can blossom when you least expect it; the righteous are seldom welcome and not always right; and that you reap what you sow. Note: change the orders of the letters in reap to get clear understanding of that message in the novel.

‘Singled Out’ is well worth reading.

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THE MEMORY OF RUNNING

THE MEMORY OF RUNNING
by Ron McLarty
12.5 hours (Recorded Books)
While in the midst of the torture of shingles, I have found real pleasure in listening to books on CDs, in particular THE MEMORY OF RUNNING by Ron McLarty. This novel fits into the hero’s journey category, almost.
The protagonist is Smithson Ide, a simple, almost simple-minded 43-year-old man whose parents were killed in a car accident and who thereafter discovers his missing schizophrenic sister, Bethany, has died as a homeless person in LA. The girl next door, Norma, has loved Smithson from the age of 4 or 5. She was a cheery, wonderful kid, but four years younger than Smithson. As a result, he has never responded to her adoration and love.
In the opening of the novel, Smithson has become a drunk, an overeater of junk food, is 279 pounds, is unmarried, and is floating unhappily through life as a supervisor in a factory that makes GI Joe figures.
At the age of 10, Norma, the happy girl next door was hit by a truck or car and is doomed to spend the rest of her life in a wheel chair. Although she is bitter about her circumstances, she has created a career for herself as a draftsman working at home on architectural and artistic projects. Norma never relents in her pursuit of Smithson, loving him even though he has grown into a grossly-overweight loser and despite his continued indifference towards her.
Smithson sets out on a cross-country journey, a quest to collect his beloved sister’s body from a morgue/funeral home in Venice Beach, Calif. The trip, made possible in part by Norma, transforms Smithson from a slob into a real person.

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HANSELL’S DRAGON

HANDSELL’S DRAGON
by Deborah K. Lauro

The protagonist of HANSELL’S DRAGON is a man who created misery for the occupants of a tiny penal colony of the future in the form of voracious, flying dragons, and subsequently is trying to assuage his guilt by doing good for one person at time.
Alex Collin, the protagonist is a biogeneticist who has lived for 174 years becoming over that time a wise, skilled physician serving outback communities whose residents respect and love him, but would tear him apart if they discovered he is the man who made the dragons who prey on them. The character created by Lauro is a decent guy with a hard edge; he is capable of crushing those who cross him and suffers from the loss of those he has loved over his long lifetime since they do die of old age while he goes on. And, Collin continues his biogenetic experiments secretly creating mammal bodies with computers for brains and souls.
At first I thought Lauro’s account suffered from too much dialogue, then at Chapter 16 (of a 40-chapter book) the quoted conversations slipped more into the background and the descriptions and character’s inner lives engagingly emerged. She is an effective writer and story teller; whenever the plot seemed ready to slow Lauro produced another interesting twist.
There is a love story: a young woman preparing to leave this planet she loves to spend the rest of her life on an austere space station because of her man. Her love is a fearful, suspicious, prejudiced (against computers), narrow-minded man, who doesn't seem worthy of her. Other self-centered and selfish men and women dance across the stage adding depth to the book, and so do blindly loyal robots limited only by their natures and programs.
The author takes us into a different world of exiled criminals, which reminds me of the early days of Australia where the British dumped all kinds of people they wanted to get rid of whether they committed real crimes or not, serious crimes or minor ones. And guess what? Most of the occupants of the free universe live in stark, artificial environments while the supposed criminals live in a beautiful, but dangerous natural world, blocked from access to any high-tech tools or weapons by their distant prison guards, who are watching them from space stations spinning around their planet.
I read this book in its free-online novel form, printing off three chapters at a time and continuing to be propelled by the characters through the story. I would recommend purchasing HANSELL’S DRAGON from an online source, where it is available, as a paperback or an ebook. The free online version that I read suffered from a distracting glitch with little squares replacing quote marks and apostrophes. Despite that I enjoyed reading Lauro’s novel.

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