On Love and Being

Some more poetry to share... enjoy!

The Loved

Love is
Like hand-
printed paper
Made to
write poetry
On by the maker.
Love is
Like fresh-
milled soap
That caresses
The skin and
Perfumes it,
Changing the texture
Of life; the scent
Of one's attitude;
The radiance
Beaming from one
Who has found
True beauty
And learned
To live with its
Flaws because
The flaws help
Bring out the beauty
Of the loved.

Wholly

Love deeply,
Truly, fully.
Laugh with
Tears at
Your eyes.
Live wholly,
Richly, with gusto.

Becoming

We, each,
are much
more than
we'll know.
For we, each,
are much
more than
we see,
than we
hear,
than we
feel or we
sense.
We, each,
are much
more a mystery
than we admit.
What we know
is the iceberg's
tip, the seedling -
not the tree we are
and are becoming.

Ordinary

Why escape
The ordinary?
Why avoid
Who you are?
The ordinary
Within is what
Makes us extraordinary.

Day’s Beginning

Walk along the shore with me
Search out treasures,
Hand in hand
As we admire the beauty
Of the day, of the coast,
Of the moment together…
See the birds as they swoop
And they play,
Watch the surfers,
See the sandcastles
As they form,
The kites as they kiss the wind,
And then fall to the ground…
Dogs chasing the surf,
People playing Frisbee,
Other couples hand in handing
As they walk, too, along the shore…
What a wonderful day’s beginning.