I AM Collaborative Poetry by Paulene

Oh my, she's asleep but... "shhh".. having another sob here...

Thanks heaps for the responses

Marty

[edit on 15/4/2008 by Im a Marty]

If I new how to write a song
I'd write one every day
It would say that I'm in love with you
And why I feel this way

It would have to say your handsome
And as rare as a desert rose
It would say your a looker
From your head down to your toes

You are funny, loving, fragile
And as masculine as can be
Your smart, charming, loving
And everything to me

You're my comfort when I'm lonely
You're my peace when I need rest
Of all the men I've known
I must rate you the best

You're the orchard in the jungle
You're the better half of me
You're all of this and so much more
You mean the world to me

Still so much is left unsaid
It would take me far too long
I know how much I love you
If only I could write a song

Friends will come and friends will go

The seasons change and it will show

I will age and so will you

But OUR friendship stays strong and true.

I love you like I love a day when everything goes right
I love you like I love to lay by your side at night

I love you like I love the rain, It's lustful calm embrace
I love you like I love to laugh, until it hurts my face

I love you like I love to drive, with no real destination
I love you like I love the the thrill of pure infatuation

But most of all I love you like I love a cherished friend
Who holds me tight, dries my tears and loves me to the end

If there's one face I'd like to see, so beautiful, so true
One smile that makes a difference, to everything I do.

If there's one touch I long to feel, one voice I long to hear
Whenever I am happy or just needing someone near.

If there's one joy, one love from which I never want to part
It's you, my very special love, my world, my life, my heart.

Just three little words don't seem like enough for someone whose smile still brightens my day, whose touch can make me forget the rest of the world....

They don't seem like enough for someone whose always been there to celebrate with me when everything goes my way and to hold my hand when my whole world seems to fall apart.

But even though "I LOVE YOU" can't express the depth of my feelings for you, I hope you know whats in my heart.

Because loving you means more to me than anything in the world and it always will.

You walked lightly into my life
Captivating and lovely to my mind
At first, I just cared who you were
Now, I don't know who I am without you.

You kissed me
I felt my world change
You held me
I heard my heart awaken
You loved me
And my soul was born anew

You walked lightly into my life
Now my heart knows who you are
And with every breath
And every step I take down lonely roads
Your hand is my staff
Your voice is my guide
Your strength, my shelter
Your passion, my awakening

You walked lightly into my life
And all my pain you took as your own
And all my fears you cast into the sea
All my doubt, lost in your eyes

You walked lightly into my life
And no matter if you choose to stay or go
My life is forever changed
Just because you loved me for a moment in time
And because I chose to love you
For the rest of mine

This poem was enspired by my memory of our spiritual commitment to each other.

Dance with me in love
Dance with me in life
When did enduring love begin?
The day we became man and wife.

There is patience and understanding
We try to be unselfish and kind
Though not a fairy-tale romance
No greater love will we find

Sharing dreams, passions and desires
Building each other up when we fall
We've learned to say I'm sorry
An I love you through it all

Our two hearts beat as one
Cherishing what we have from above
Dance with me forever
Dance me to the end of love

A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift
A friend is someone we treasure
For our friendship is a gift

A friend is someone who fills our lives
With beauty, joy and grace
And makes the whole world we live in
A better and happier place.

You are friendly, kind and caring
Sensitive, loyal and understanding
Humorous, fun, secure and true
Always there... yes that's you.

Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest golden eyes
Confiding, forgiving, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.

You're one of a kind, different from others
Generous, charming, but not one that smothers
Optimistic, thoughtful, happy and game
But not just another.... in the long chain.

Appreciative, warm and precious like gold
Our friendship won't tarnish or ever grow old
You'll always be there, I know that is true
I'll always be here... always for you.

This poem is my first ever attempt in writing. I found this in a folder when I was 18....

You seem to assume to know me
Who I am, What I am, My intentions, My purpose.

You cannot know the impossible life behind this that I am.
You cannot know or begin to know this that I am.

I sought only to learn a little about you for when first I saw you, my heart was touched.
You were as a sunset gleaming on the clouds with impossible splendor.
And I was touched I heard you speak words with depth, knowledge and understanding.

The sunset on which I gazed grew even more splendid
I sought only to learn more about this sunset.

Perhaps you assume to know my aim
Thinking it must be to win your heart and know your form
Perhaps you believe that my goal, a simple roll in the sack

No....

In the years that make my life
I have learned bitter lessons, many lessons, hard lessons, lessons of the heart
Tearing and dismal lessons of the heart
Lessons of understanding of my soul

Amongst my teachings that which life has taught
This that I am I have learned to reach with my heart when touched
To seek greater understanding
When charmed, held in the terrific splendor of a gleaming sunset

Even at great risk, risk of rejection
Misunderstanding or even discovering that the sunset was but a reflection of my standing hope for a sparkling diamond in the rough

I know you will see me through the powerful filter of your experience
Perhaps this experience has never seen or known the likes of me
Perhaps you find it difficult to believe my aim, my goal was simply to take the time to learn about you.

This has been the way with me
It seems I am often misunderstood.

So....

Think what you will of me
Fortress yourself within your assumptions, lay guesses and ponderings

About this that I am
Rather than venturing to learn and understand
Solace your heart with the belief, That I fit within your understanding
That I am like any other woman, just some girl looking for affection

Convince yourself that I am not genuine, honest or real
Truly interested in learning about the person you are

In just taking time to get to know you
Choose to believe that I, perhaps even all women are driven solely on instinct

Only interested in playing the necessary games to win your affection

Not all women are wired this way
But perhaps you may never realize this
Safely fortressed behind your blinding assumptions
Behind your veil
Your filter of deception.

[edit on 16-4-2008 by Paulene Soto]

Originally posted by AccessDenied
WOW!
Paulene, Marty is so very lucky.
Keep the words flowing.
AccessDenied

Thank you for your reply. I hope you have enjoyed reading my collaborative work. I find it very beneficial for my feelings of love, life and experience best expressed through words.

It is also very therapeutic for my soul....

Thanks again..
Peace

Originally posted by whaaa
What a wonderful tribute to another human being.

Ain't LOVE grand?

Thanks for your kind words. Love is indeed a grand and wonderful emotion.

Peace

Post Fix...

Rodrigo

[edit on 16/4/2008 by Im a Marty]

Nice poems love

Rod

[edit on 16/4/2008 by Im a Marty]

I'll paint a sun to warm your heart
Knowing that we'll never part
I'll draw the years all passing by
So much to learn, so much to try

I'll paint my mood in a shadow blue
Paint my soul to be with you
I'll sketch your lips in shaded tones
Draw your mouth to my own

I'll trace a hand to wipe your tears
And trace a look to calm your fears
A silhouette of dark and light
To hold each other , oh so tight

I'll paint the stars in the evening sky
Draw the light into your eyes
A touch of love, a touch of grace
To softly fall on your moonlit face

And with this ring our lives will start
Let nothing keep our love apart
I'll take your hand to hold in mine
And be together through all time

From this day forward

You shall not walk alone

My heart will be your shelter

And my arms will be your home

This thread has made my heart grow two sizes bigger at least.
You guys give the rest of us hope that true love exists in this mixed up world.
May you enjoy forever in each others arms.

To my darling Rodrigo (aka Im A Marty)

I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give

I promise to respect you as your own person and to realize that your interests, desires and needs are no less important than my own

I promise to share with you my time and my attention and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship

I promise to keep myself open to you to let you see through the window of my world into my inner most fears and feelings, secrets and dreams

I promise to grow along with you to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting

I promise to love you in good times and bad with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how.

[edit on 16-4-2008 by Paulene Soto]

Originally posted by AccessDenied
This thread has made my heart grow two sizes bigger at least.
You guys give the rest of us hope that true love exists in this mixed up world.
May you enjoy forever in each others arms.

( This poem in NOT dedicate to anyone in my life)

Like a winters storm our lives start to clash
With thunder bolts and a lightening flash

Then spring kicks in and nature starts to bloom
We finally realize that we are entombed

Yet we wait for summer to start to heat up
And our emotions flow over the chalice cup

And finally Autumn (fall) rolls around once again
And we finally realize we can only be friends.

[edit on 16-4-2008 by Paulene Soto]

Lying asleep between the strokes of night
I saw my love lean over my sad bed,
Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head,
Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare throat made to bite,
Too wan for blushing and too warm for white,
But perfect-coloured without white or red.
And her lips opened amorously, and said--
I wist not what, saving one word--Delight.
And all her face was honey to my mouth,
And all her body pasture to mine eyes;
The long lithe arms and hotter hands than fire,
The quivering flanks, hair smelling of the south,
The bright light feet, the splendid supple thighs
And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire.