"A Red River Home"
Love in Mind





You Fit Me Just Fine


I pulled my rocking chair next to yours on the porch
and tried to remember how your hand held mine
nothing was ever orderly in my life
so I guess you fit in just fine.

I never told you my real age, and I don't know why
I suppose because you were younger than me
a woman's fear of passing time,
but you always did fit in just fine.

I knew from the start we needed each other for support
so to leave would make it hard for you to stand
so hard for me to make a decison that is right
but baby you always did fit in just fine.

There is a whole lot more road now from me to you
than there was when I lived 3000 miles away
just a memory somewhere back there in my mind
but baby you always did fit in just fine.







Love Is


Love's like an ocean,
of immeasureable depth
hiding its secrets
under dark stormy skies
crashing then ebbing
swirling and churning
till evening time comes
and calm soothes the yearning.


Love's like a desert
cruel to the weak
no shade to hide
you bake in the glare
can't lay down to rest
escape you must find
the heat slowly subsides
just barely in time.


Love's like the mountain
steep as you climb ever on
hoping for breath
enough to carry you along
the paths are so narrow
they twist and they turn
but if you can just keep on climbing
loves echo might return.






His Kiss


The sweet and simple kiss
gentle from your lips,
teasing,
the hard, a passonite one
hints of meaning lingers on,
bruising,
carressing cares away,
forever smirking when in play,
transfusing.
Giving so much meaning
to our world
a kiss.





Doing Fine


Face in the moonlight got my heart in the clouds
I'm living for your whispers I hear them so loud
my love was on empty my heart felt the tug
so much to give you when a hearts full of love.

Can't answer the phone so I just sit in my chair
stare out the window at the shadows lurking there
looking for faces that remind me of you
painting a picture with all shades of blue

Wish you were with me when we went to the beach
sat on the sand and felt so much out of reach
wished I could shout your name to the sea
have the waves send you back by my side next to me.

So I see your face in the moonlight on everyone that goes by
I hear your whipsers so clearly in the sounds of a sigh
Your cologne brings back memories of warm hugs in the night
if your memories are like mine your heart feels the fight.

You say it will be okay and we will be together in the end
but for now this is our life and the best's round the bend
I find missing you seems to take up a lot of my time
but I just want you to know that I'm doing fine.



Unchained Memory


A loving hand browned and tan
soft, carressing, this touch of man.
Gentle fingers sofly trail
on and on hearts flutter frail.
Like a breeze, cool and light
a sigh expressed in dead of night.
A joy to linger wrapped in arms
a loving memory of treasured charms.
Racing heart contented sighs
often makes it hard to shut your eyes.
So I pause in thoughtful reverie
love of man, a soul floating free.

hummer



Love is Eternal

Would it be a perfect song, if you sang
Would not the stars shine brighter than, jewels.
The lonely mortal in my gaze
but my love for you, my minds ablaze
with tenderness, yet wanton thoughts
your smile the only gift that I would want.


I've stroked your face and cupped your chin
looked deep in eyes that often brim, ...with tears,
oh so sweet, I wipe away the tiny drop,
your emotions often reach the top,
we ride the crest of loves full peak
no hurry to end the joy we seek.


Neither one of us a perfect form
but eyes of love gauze what is shown.
We share a bliss that some never know
And in this poem I want to show
a special love for you alone
my heart, my soul, my love, my own.




Loves Foundation



Center lane and passing down
all these road signs in this LA town.
Exit now, Commerce Bank,
Atlas Tires, minds a blank.
I got lots of time to think........
one ole town is as good as another
if you are leaving your home
your kids, your Mother.
I Think of life,
I think of love,
the layers of love,
one on the other.
The heart knows degrees
from lovin to loathing
the distance between
wrapped in a fuzz,
no walls to divide
all the emotion inside.
I am the odd one
I don't care to forget
the good times we've shared
since the day we first met.
Some hang on to the bad
the mean and the sad,
hoping the anger
will make the parting more glad.
Love is in layers
from the first to the last
and like a good foundation
the top will fall
if the first in the stack
crumbles them all.

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The road less travelled would not be so narrow if more people took it. ~nea





Fabric of My Love



Never one word, nor a single glance
many a thought we have shared,
so hard to describe this feeling inside
but again and again we have tried.

Singular shell where odd minds dwell
We are different as two could be,
yet....... when he is hurt, I cry......
For the pain that I feel
seems ever so real
intense, from the look in his eye.

We stroll arm and arm
matching our strides leisure pace
illuminated mood, uplifted face
for better to see love lurking there
hovering, dancing, behind deep crecent eyes
smouldering passion, yet unrealized,
stark emotions, unmasked gaze
a lovers approach, to heavens amaze.

Heart on my shoulder
Heart in his hand
mingling essence
loves ever demand.

Put into words these feelings lack depth
no word yet written describes all we feel
but the fabric of love
is still very real..........

hummer

Tears

Crystaline drops shimmer
beneath lashes gentle rest
quiet hands softly placed
calm the flutter in my breast.





Strange Birds



He is a strange bird,
she a dove,
they are mostly alone
and in need of love.
He is sweet, she a song,
joy and contentment all night long.
She clings to him, he is so tall,
he is her mountain, he is her all.
She looks beyond what eyes can see,
to the other side of her ecstasy.
Lovers bathed in heated glow
after sharing all they know.
She laid down with him,
she pulled him close
she kissed his needs
a welcome embrace.
In her heart she sees
he is the one,
the only one
she will ever want,
or ever need.
She gets fearful,
she gets scared
because she knows
that what she has
is precious and rare.




He and Me



A breath of night air
and a cool summers eve breeze
I can smell the rain,
I can hear the rustle of leaves.
I close my eyes
so the dark can invade my inner soul
I want to remember soft kisses,
feel a lovers warm glow.

We are so far apart,
because of this path that I chose
still the memory of strong arms
pushes past the door that I closed.
He said he would never stop waiting,
I told him to do what he must
and he knows I will remember,
and in his love place my trust.

A future so unclear
yet we will never be free
my love will always be his
and his, always, for me.