The crispest, warmest summer sun
Tempered by a breeze so sweet
Cannot herald half the loving fun
Of a day with you, my love: complete
What’s familiar often seems grow
A-weary as time goes on
Yet our love’s fresh as winter’s snow
Your heart the warmest I’ve come upon
Five years approach and I remain
Ever at your side and heart
Always close in quiet refrain
Closer even now than at love’s start
5-04-2012
We moved hosting providers and I lost your database of poems. Man did I suck! But today I decided it was high time to do something about it.
So I sat down in that uncomfortable chair, scoured every last piece of media I own…and I finally found it. The one remaining backup copy of the site’s database, still containing all your poems. Now I’m taking steps to ensure they never get lost again, my sweet Kelley. I hope you’ll enjoy these again; more will be coming soon, in time for your birthday once more 🙂
And many happy returns, as they say. I hope you know just how much you mean to me, because I can’t tell you enough. You’re my soft cushion and my warm snugglespot, and I love having you close to me.
Happy Birthday. I love you very much!
When the sky crackled black with a boatload of stars
You were wrapped in a warm, comfy snooze
A funny thing happened, it came from afar
I saw it, I did! Thirty landed on you!
It roared and it snarled and said “What a chase!”
“This girl’s too pretty, I’m at the wrong house!”
I assured him, “Sir, this is the girl, and this is the place”
He scratched his chin, silent as a mouse
“How funny indeed, such a beautiful face”
And then I explained, the best that I could
“She has the sweetest heart ever, and the warmest of smiles”
I watched as he grinned; yes he understood
“Think I’ll stay for awhile, this should be good!”
Then he settled right in for a comfortable year
With the prettiest girl, all full of Art
It can’t get any better
Than being close to your heart!
One day I sat and watched the sky
The clouds were all adrift in peace
Disturbed by naught but ducks and geese
I breathed and sighed and closed my eyes
And deeply drew of Earth and Air
A Day-dream of you, with thoughts so fair
I smiled and clucked and laughed a bit!
For the smiles you always bring me to
The happy chuckles and warmth of you
And what luck should happen upon me then?
When my eyes should open with smiles and stares
But the beauty of you, sweet love, right there!
A simple touch upon my cheek
Warm and tender contact eliciting my smile
Loving caress that soothes my soul
My love, please hold me for awhile
And watch with me the evening sky
As the sun burns away into the night
For as its embers slowly die away I’m bathed
In the radiant warmth of your light
The sweet and tender playful eyes
That light all they look upon
You help my soul to realize
No pain can last for long
Hold me close and steel my will
Temper all that’s hard and pained
Set my heart at ease as only you can
‘Til our love’s all that shall remain!
With a confident and happy smile
A hearty, cheerful laugh
She carries herself with a simple poise
A demeanor that’s only half
Of the warmth and love that guides her soul
In the drudge of day-to-day
The true concern she shows to all
Who cross her blessed way
And the luck I know I must have found
To have met a heart so true
Gives me little fear but lots of love
E’er since the day I found you
At times I’ve felt all blown along
Along the Winds of Autumn’s song
No clear and present directation
Nor a moment’s expectation
Yet with each up and rising, burning sun
My heart’s alight and yearns for fun
Of unexpected, cheerful kind
The sort that often comes to mind
When dreaming of a girl who’s touch
So often seems ‘twould bear too much
Of love and all it’s twittering cheer
O’ warmth of laughing with you, my dear!
As gentle winds blow through somber grass
Warm air stirs and swirls as I breathe the silky air
The soft caress of rising dawn bathes my skin twixt night and day
While emotion stirs from a place I daren’t go
The crisp and bitter crackle of birds chirping rings aloud
The aroma of warming earth fills my nostrils as a smile’s nearly born
Am I sinking in this Heaven, this warm and sweet place
Or am I cracking e’er so softly, as the emerging hatchling in its twiggy nest?
‘Awake, arise, become,’ slides warm across my ears
Like sweet illusion, a mirage just out of reach
‘Emerge, accept, embrace,’ welcomes my heart now to step free
And the smiling voice that wakes me comes in your tender whispering
I’ve always had an inkling for ideas deep inside
For funny little thoughts and things
I always felt that I should hide
But somehow when you’re near me, encouraging and fun
Somehow when I hear you call out “you can do it!”
I feel as if I’ve stepped into the sun
And like the clock that comes alive with music when it rings
You open up a special door I’ve rarely dared to peek
Something’s opening inside; for you my soul just sings!
Like the thunder beating out from a giant drum
I realize that just what you are, my dear
Is that place where all the Art comes from!