Poems for My Wife

Poems for My Wife


Eulogy for a Muse-
Painful love inspires poems
But perfect love inspires men
And when a man walks out into the sun
He extinguishes the candle used to
Light the way.
And so my muse, damaged love
I lay you to rest and I go
To pursue a love complete,
A love divine.
I leave the flickering of your dim candle
And bask in love’s true light,
Warm myself in loves influence
And shake off the cold of
Loves imperfection.
Goodbye to feigned love
And her false expressions which bind
The heart in imaginary snares.
I go to deliver myself into
Loves strong current and
Be swept away in the enveloping
Bliss of love eternal.







I’ve tried to write these songs for you
But found myself unable to
Because these songs like leaves in tow
Dance on the heart’s great river flow
And like a wind-blown azure field
Leaves sway, but roots are what I feel
So it is to write songs to you-
Deeper feeling, at the hearts root







Memory can be fleeting
But love lingers like salt on the tongue
The crystal lost prompts the sense
To want more, love more
The deep under-current of memory
Pulling the heart swiftly along
Until love rushes and hurries
And no amount of speed
No distance traveled
Can satiate its hunger.





Joy’s great sun, by life eclipsed,
Which warms the heart, oft is missed.
But when woes are pushed aside
Abundant light enters life
And so love, when it is full,
Escapes eclipse eternal.
Joy’s blossoms abound in light
Which shines through shadow of life
When life’s moon is done away
Oh! I await that blest day
When our resurrected love
Mirrors the light from that sun






There’r certain things that men would say
If they were just allowed
Pure emotion, cased in words
Backed by iron vows

A threshold which one dare not pass
Where empty words take weight
And feelings fill the wordy void
Words full of love and hate







I lie awake in bed at night
And feel my empty bed
Instead of dreams, these thoughts of you
Dance inside my head
These waking dreams are sweeter still
Than any dreamful sleep
Found in nights bright Elysium
While stars their watch e’er keep






Across the room my eye is caught
As love’s elation sinking deep,
My gaze wandering, distressing thought,
I cannot my eyes from her keep

Oh! Obsession’s piteous grasp
That steals the eyes, the mind, the heart
A thousand years in seconds past
As what once was becomes a part

Of love, of life, lived in her eyes
A waking dream; dreaming, awake
When eyes synaptic, hers and mine
A grand new voyage undertake

Into the soul and from there hence
To the hearts distant climes. Seconds
Are past in those great years from whence
Returning, the vision is done

And we two travelers of the world
Tell stories of that blessed day
We shared, when we on life’s sea rolled
Hurried along in love’s vast wake






Deep in the soul a secret’s hidden
Oh blessed eyes, that window dim
That won’t betray the secret veiled
Unless from the right one beheld.
What is that secret ye may ask
Which only one lone soul may grasp?
When the right one comes to my life,
Of what may he alone take sight?
When I glance in thine eyes my love
I see in that Elysium-
A man, myself, not as I am
But as I with thee shall become.
And that’s the mystery of life
To find the one in whose dark eyes
A flash! The window’s curtain drawn
The light of future breaks as dawn.






As I lay next to you this afternoon
And held you in my arms,
Draped my arm loosely across your side,
My transient heart found home in your breast.
As shadows dance around a wind-blown candle
I danced on the edge of sleep
And in that ethereal half-waking state
I drew strength from you delicate frame-
Comfort for my pains of insecurities
I drew from your gentle sighs.
The rising and falling of your breast
I felt on my chest and in my soul-
Too fast to be asleep, to slow to be awake-
You danced with me on the edge of sleep.
I shall never truly sleep again
Until you’re in my arms.
The solace I once found in sleep
Will be, for me,
Until that day I share sleep’s
Starry blanket with you once more,
Only a reminder of the home
I found in your breast,
The dance we shared on the edge of sleep,
And the loneliness of my empty bed.









I think thy most endearing trait, that makes me want to be
With thee for everyday, my love: that thou inspirest me
To be, to act, to live my best, a whole, completed man;
To take the “could” that God’s instilled and turn it into “can”

And so my love, my feelings true I dare not try describe
I’ll only say, when I’m with thee, I feel that I’m alive
Like seeing a new life begun, or meteor showers fall,
When I’m with thee, my love, my dear, I lose myself in awe









Love's prayer escapes my lips
and, wrapped in a sigh,
drifts on the breeze, onward,
carried by love to you.
The supplication of the lover's heart
is borne not on winds of grief-
nor can the lover's need be compared
to the gentle pleading
of a fatherly priest.
As a sinner begs
for God's divine grace
and sheltering presence,
the lover seeks to be
wrapped in the robes of his
beloved icon.
The lover’s piety seeks divinity
which it already knows,
of which it's already tasted.
A lover's faith seeks not
that which it has not seen-
the lover's faith covets that
which it hopes to see again.





Do you know that I’m thinking of you?
Like one who knows she’s being watched,
Can you feel my thoughts caressing
Your body across the miles?
When I taste your lips and
My memory soars up into the sky
To find you
Can you sense that you are loved?
Your taste on my lips
Drives me gently mad-
Do you know my madness?






I had the chance to spend a night
Alone beneath the sky
Away from all the city lights
Far from the city’s cry
This night was like others which I’d
Spent gazing at the stars
Which twinkle bright out where I hide
From all my worldly cares
But this time when my eyes caught hold
Of heavens starry vault
Something inside felt strange and cold
Loneliness grasped my heart
I thought back to the times when we
Wrapped in each others arms
Had laid ourselves beside a tree
And gazed out at the stars
And now the twinkling stars above
Seemed only half so bright
I felt the loneliness of love
Between those points of light
The darkness in between the stars
Held my attention fast
And mirrored from my lonely heart
The echoes from our past
And now I’d much prefer the stars
As seen through city lights
Beside our tree, you in my arms
Immersed in loves delight






The peacefulness of a summer afternoon
of leaves fluttering in the afternoon breeze
with the sun’s gentle caress they glow

The breeze blown softly across my cheek
echoes of your sighing breaths
as we shared this afternoon together

and warming ourselves in the sunlight
we shared the peace of this afternoon
eternal lasting peace






I dreamt of you the other night
And from our hilltop we took sight-
The life we shared
Before us bare
Passed by as though in flight

Then from our mountain vantage point
We felt the transcendental joint
Where heavens skies
Our earthly lives
With light and love anoint

And as I woke that heavens glee,
Which waking slow gives cause to flee,
Did fast remain
Because you lay
Here in my bed with me







A breeze blown soft across the cheek
Her breath: the mind dim, the knees weak
Become, as mem’ry an inner
Darkness fills with light of her.

Lost in the sensational bliss
Of the breeze, the mem’ry, the hiss
Of former days when love was blind
With vig’rous youth, youth divine!

When I walk from dark into light
I get lost in o’erpowering sight
And so it is when I’m with you
I’m lost, unknowing what to do





As I awoke this morning
I made the mistake of dreaming
Of you as I stirred.
I lay and thought of the
Tasks and chores of the day
And ached to be with you,
To have you here by me
That I might touch your skin
And delicately kiss your lips.
With that yearning the importance
Of the daily chores
Melted away
And as I drifted back into your presence
Happiness filled my dreams.





Like a meadow covered in snow
I’m lonely without you
My loneliness is serene though
Beneath a sky of blue

The snow’s white blanket comes alive
Underneath the sun’s glow
Thousands of diamonds like a fire
Flash bright across the snow

Years escape and I blink an eye
As I wait to see you
The pains of daily life all die
When with you I’m renewed





I wrap you in my arms
And take you into my entire body
I drink in your scent
And when you kiss me gently
I breathe in life and love, now one.





I bend and drink from the water that springs
From the cleft in the rocks
It tastes sweet and familiar
Gazing up, I look upon the looming mountains
And past them, to the sun and moon
Looking deep into the soul of this beautiful universe
Still drinking, lapping, tasting
I feel the living, vibrant shaking of the earth
The soulful, gleeful quaking
As control is lost and won, won and lost
And all is right, as I drink from the rock
The grassy fields, the looming hills
All is as it should be
Like water from the cleft, rushing, flowing
Content and peace, harmony with this universe
Are mine, ours