Puppy Love Collection

It seems so silly to read these now.... but I wrote these poems when I was "in love" in my late teens & early twenties. I thought I was so serious and utterly pained..... but really, they're just painful and a little too desperate & melancholy!   But I thought it would be a cool testimony to show how God has worked in my life and brought me someone so amazing, better than I could have even dreamed up!  As always, I welcome your comments & critiques. Anyway, for your reading pleasure:


The Puppy Love Collection: 
1. Listening to the Wind  
2. First Loves 
3. Dark Eyes  
4.  He is Silent
5. He Speaks
6. T


If you read an earlier post.... An Ode to Summer....... :) that's also an ode to the best summer romance with the guy who may just be The One..... I just didn't want it to be ignored.

 

A heart speaks or Listening to the wind

Sitting alone on a park bench

Listening

To the wind

Rushing through the leaves,

I feel as though I am lost.

But not really. Just 

Floating
In the chasm of

Loneliness.
You, oh God, are here.

Why can’t that be enough for me?
Instead, I long for
A connection, a relationship with
Someone

Who feels the same way.

Hushed whispers stroll along with
Fingers intertwined, but I am
Sitting alone on a park bench

Listening
To the wind

Rushing through the leaves. 

01 October 2001

  

First loves

Your eyes pierce to my heart

Do you know what my

Soul is saying or

Do you only hear the

Words escaping my lips?

Those eyes could melt stone;

They have melted my broken heart.

When you look at me

I can feel my breath

Searing through my veins as

My heart dances.

17 November 2003 

Dark Eyes

Your eyes pierce to my heart.

I see a life, a future

Staring back at me from

The light behind those dark eyes.

Is it my future? Ours?

Lightening flashes,

Darkness falls, shattering my hopes.

I descend, a rambling fool,

Into the warmth of my memory.

Your dark eyes mesmerize me,

Chill me,

As you stare into my very soul.

The midnight brightness of

Winter’s first blizzard

Illuminates the sad state in which

I wait,

Impatiently

For you to see me!

Do you know your whole face lights up

When you smile?

Those warm, dark eyes of yours

Chill me,

Mesmerize me.

05 December 2003

 

He is silent

I wait

impatiently to be seen,

by the one my heart seeks.

I speak hesitant  to be real

with the one who my heart will steal.

I wait

Patiently, this time,

to see if he will be mine.

He speaks!

cautiously, my heart to guard

with the dawn of day, my heart,

he loves

unselfishly!

 March 2004

 

He speaks

The day has come, the moment arrived

to reveal what has been hidden inside!

The thing is, you see, what’s really going on,

Hearts and thoughts, though separate

Really are the same.

He speaks!

May 2004 

T

Singed by the fiery, crystal blue eyes

Torched by the tawny brown skin

Bewitched by the tender whispers

Bruised by the empty promises

Battered by the echoing memories

            that ricochet in the spaces

            of my  never quiet mind

Wistful looks, words, whispers, winks

Hearty laughter, lingering touches,

Lustful lips, strong arms…

            these are the things I choose to remember

09 March 2005