The document contains a collection of poems expressing love, longing, forgiveness and spirituality. The poems range from 3 lines to several paragraphs in length and utilize lyrical language, metaphor, and repetition to convey intense emotion. They address themes of intimacy, connection, comfort during hardship, and finding hope or divine meaning within. The collection reflects on the depth and complexity of human relationships and experiences.

1. I would hold you gently
Bruce I Would Hold You Gently
and rock you gently on the waves
of my regard,
and kiss you fully
on the shore, that meets
the waves and embrace you deep
within me, as far
as you can go, can gain
…thehidden, recessed joy…
a(gain).
rrrrrrrrrrrrr
I would hold you gently
I would hold you gently
and hold you ecstatic, to my breast
washed by womb’s contractions,
and kiss you fully on the
shore…that meets the waves (and
waves rrrrrrrrrrrrr
the sea(see) that the two of us,
tangled… surprises…
in each other’s unmasked
glance…that rocks and rocks… with
the rhythms
…of salt…and adoring tongue.
rrrrrrrrrrrrrI would hold you
gently
and give to you to hold my softly
shadowed soul …that sees and
greets
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
…and also meets…the one so easy,
in you to cherish…and kiss you
fully …on the shore
where two sets of prints
are pressed
…pressed together.

2. Encircling You with
Colors…………Kobi
circling You with Colors……………..
…Touch me in red and I’ll pour into
your open eyes
with a burst of pure deep blue going
straight to
your core and then wrapping round
entangling with your thoughts, nerves
and veins in pure energy of orange
which will dance in dapples around
your mouth causing you to smile and
then glow with happiness as I smile
back at you in yellow /
yellow, simple smile –
all smile,
the one that melts you
and causes
green, green rooted
heart-rooted love as
indigo,
violet your fingers and toes
are encircled by
my red answer, my
red loyalty, my red depth of love
for you

3. …How Much Do I
love you Joan?
…..Sooooooooooooo
….How much do
I love you?............
I love you down deep
to the source of
the roots
of secrets
of mysteries.
I love you to within
the heart
of all passion…
I love you
to the edge………….
of the precipice of
not knowing
and
I love you
into the flight,
the leap
into the faith
. .. of loving you…

4. Danny Wherever you are…
You are in my heart
You
are in my thoughts…
Wherever you
are…Danny
Wherever
you are…
You need to know…
You
are my heart
You are
my thoughts.

5. Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Joe!
…You! I’m just
so overjoyed
to hear from you!
I thought that
somebody
had stuck you in
a refrigerator in Siberia
and that I wouldn’t
hear from you until
the ice melted.
Where are you?????
Quick tell me!!!! I’m
just
so
hungryyyyyy
to ……
hugggggg you
When
Can I????????

6. I’m just so
hungryyyyyy
to …… hugggggg you
Sam
Please Find Me…..
Please find me
and touch me.
I’m weary from
throwing out love
to you in planes
that need to break
the sound barrier.

7. in rockets that need
to circle the globe
and head out
for a Mars Mission
…and
……………..
still not being connected
with,
And

8. I am Your Light…Sandy
Sweetheart,
I am Your Light…
I am Your Light…
I am Your Light…
I am Your Light…
I am Your Light…
I am Your Light…
I am Your Light…

9. Kevin,
I know that you
need something
shining through
to you right now.
Sweetheart,
I am your light.
I am your constant in
this difficult time.
My love stands guard
… to turn away-what is
unnecessary for you
to deal with.
I know that you
cannot hear me,
cannot talk to me
right now,so
just look for the light.
It’s there with you
in the darkness.
It’ll get you
through the night.

10. Feel Me…
Mark Feel Me…
Bowing low,
down to the
ground
my forehead
pressed into the
earth…
Mark,Feel me as
I rise up on my
toes …to dance
Feel me…as I
send out focus
and energy
in straight
streams…beams
from my hands
and head.
Feel me…as .
I send my roots
down through the ground.
Feel me…as I take a deep breath,
focus as my eyes…
flower for you…
Feel me as my smile weeps
spring rain,
watering the flowers
of mirth …that you
cause to blossom from my lips.

11. As I breathe you closer
Cheryl… Open your eyes wider
as I breathe you closer…
breathing through
moonbeams,
catching your eyes
in the breath.
Feel my heart…beating
against your heart…
two hearts as one…
two hearts as one…
performing arias…
melting ice…
releasing
blue and orange
butterflies
…in flying
waterfalls.

12. Kincaid Feel my heart…
beating
against your heart…
two hearts as one…
performing arias…
melting ice…
releasing
blue and orange
butterflies

13. Buck More lasting than
the time it would take
to count all the stars
(Forever)
that is how much
I love you
and more.
Longer
than the silences
between all the people
who cannot or will not
love each other…
That is how long
I will love you
(forever)
More clear than the eyes of
little children…
More deep than all the people
who have lived one hundred
years or more… that is how
I love you
…………. (forever)

14. So you’re the quiet type
Danny You seem a quiet type.
..You speak softly, always
seem relaxed.
….But I look at you and
see…. rockets!!!
…I see colored pots
of geraniums…in
all shades tropical.
Growing in the garden
of your laugh. …

15. Denise Loud parrots
are whistling,
saying embarrassing
things
…to the company,
…as we quietly
close the door to
the bedroom…
and get ready for
a long night
of love
Around your voice I turn
An I love you photo poem

16. Kent.
As
the moon and
the stars…
all attached
to their anchors,
turn.
Glowing and
burning around
I turn…
like the earth
turns around the sun.
Your voice has
this effect on me.
Yes, you…the one
talking to me
in my head and
my heart
Your voice
arouses me,
gives me direction,
stops me
in my tracks……………
……………… and
asks me to dance.

17. Jane I’m trying to speak love
to you…
speak it,
Jane I’m trying to speak love
to you…
speak it,
and make you
hear it,
and feel it- threatening
………to erupt
like a volcano….
Waves and waves
and waves
of crescendos….hit
my ear. Drums…beat…….
on the largest of
tympani drums…
overwhelming
my insulation against love

18. Sonya……
I realize that
you
turn
my heart into ……a music box
playing
Sonya
loving
you……………. an
exquisite
repeating
tune…for…
infinity …
drops of …sound…
pour out of me………………
Photo Poems

19. John The Everyday Things…
The little scenes….
the things that you
reveal day by day
as I fill in the cross word puzzle
of…you, B. M before me
Miracle of miracles, nothing is
screaming,
“Listen to that, stupid...
He’s telling you he’s insecure.
He’s telling you that he doesn’t
know how to love
that…
“He thought that
he never could love”
(and he can’t) …
Instead you daily reveal
a thirst for life …
a curiosity… a mind open…
and
a heart full of ability.
Sweetheart, you are
my everyday miracle.

20. Susan With your words of love
With your words
of love to me
singing in my ears…
my world becomes
a lullaby…
wooing me with
the sounds of
an interior heartbeat
…as well as
the sounds…of …
the mother’s womb

21. Cher
Your
tactile words of love
to me…
become…
a rack of billiard balls…
scattered….
with a loud clack….
(when we hug…)
Photo Poems

22. Danny The football game rush
and flap
of the wings of the words
of love
compose a new
classic love song.
The rush and flap of
the wings of the words
of love…go honking off
in a loud discussion
of the tactics
of a winning game…
as I smile at you…….
even
The scarf wound around my
throat…even that seeming quiet
white scarf…has erupted
into scarlet screams…as
we rush for the goal /
screams at the top of its
cheer leader lungs!!!!!!
as our love scores!!!
Danny Our love scores!!

23. Sharon everything vibrates
Everything vibrates-
even after it dies
or is burned-
it continues to vibrate.
It continues to vibrate-
with the energy with which it
is created
Even if
it was
created in frivolity
-to no good purpose-
it continues to vibrate-
and how much more so-
it continues to vibrate-
if it was created in love-
Everything continues to vibrate-
and how much more so-
it continues to vibrate-
If it was created in love and with the purpose
of love

24. Sharon love continues to vibrate-
And to sing-
inside of a deep well-
which is the common human heart.
leaves and
love falling dropping and growing
anew

25. Tony, leaves and love..
leaves
uncurling…
Leaves/my love for you always
renewing

26. Morris, You are my 2nd skin
You are my second pair of
eyes
You are both sunrise and
sunset to me
encircling and completing
my day
You are my lesson in the
economics of love
endlessly enriching my
life
Photo Poems

27. Every Time You Open Your
Eyes…
Denise Every
Time You Open Your
Eyes…
Your capacity for joy
And to give love
rustles my pages, sets off
a mini smoke alarm-
Every time you open your eyes
at me And I open mine back--I feel
like I opened a box of Cracker Jacks-
and found inside…instead of a
plastic horse-I get the winning
ticket to the ten-million-dollar
lottery.

28. Bearsky Your smile and loving
looks-
are a pair of ice skates-
to take me safely along-
the slippery slopes of life.
You are my Pooh Bear.
I can squeeze you and drag you
along
up and down the stairs-
your head bumping on each step-
until your stuffing falls out,
your fur gets rubbed off-and all
you’ll do is look
at me with your shiny black
button eyes-and…
and… you
beg to play again.

29. Bearsky You are my Pooh Bear
You don’t think things through.
…but you’re all heart.
You won’t lose your dribble
in the middle of the game.
You won’t quit.

30. Mark Love is in your eyes Haiku
Love is in your eyes
love’s light and colored shadings
and complexities
In your need for love
you feed your own light
and fire
from other’s darkness

31. Michele
Darkness cannot break
the purity of your soul
that will be loved back
……………………………………

32. Jeannie With transparent precision,
with precise crystal, clear heart
stroke,
you shape me and my life-
you write onto me-the meaning of
you-…
of what you mean to me.
……………………………………
……………………. Love… and…
You write a clear question
answered in my heart
an easily understood question-
one that is possible to answer-
“Why I do not want to live
without you….”

33. Harry-Five Signs of You
Your tongue,
moves-red, wet…slick….
kisses me, down, low down…low
Laid down… drowned…
I… fall
as
Your teeth… close
grip me, bite me, eat me,
taste…me
(Deep inside…I moan)
Imprinted impressions
of Your teeth
-seals, rings,
(Your
your brand
on my
…bared neck)

34. Kobi, What a wonderful way
to wake up
What a Wonderful Way to Wake Up…
to your voice, to your thoughts.
It makes a quiet dance of
a smile come up behind
-in my eyes.
It makes me smile like
you do…I’m flirting with you…
like a little bird that’ll sing
if -you look at it.
And when you speak,
I leave spaces to really
hear what you say. And
I leave more spaces,
to really think about
what -you say.
What a wonderful way
to wake up!
I kiss you.

35. Stressed
Izzy…I know that you’re stressed.
I know that you’re hurting.
I felt it.
I feel it.
So, listen.
Today, my energy is pure…
I’m functioning on some
higher
level of harmony.
So, just stay still
for a minute.
I’m holding you
in my arms.

36. Kobe I know that you
cannot hear me.
I know that you
cannot hear me,
and cannot talk
to me right now…
Kobe just look for the
light of my love
It’s there with you
in the darkness.
It’ll get you
through the night.

37. Sandra Open your eyes wider
as I breathe you closer…
breathing through
moonbeams,
catching your eyes
in the breath.
. Open your eyes
wider
as I breath you closer…
breathing through
moonbeams,
catching your eyes in the
breath.
Sandra Feel my heart…
beating against your heart…
two hearts as one…
performing arias…
Feel my heart…
melting ice…
releasing blue and orange
butterflies

38. Dwight Love
love
this
time
…I know
…..it is true
Love
Love
Lovers
Love
.
I have chosen
you
and I have
chosen you
for GOOD

39. Dale I have chosen you
and
I have chosen you
for GOOD
We rock!
We Rock!

40. Renee, You Me
You Me
We Rock!
You Me wE Rock!
The I love you photo poems

41. Cindy1)
Without you there to
move my days with deep passion
my heart beats
limply
2) Without you to thrust
my wild urges onto over
and over
- a void
3. We’ve touched unknown
space and
we need to promise
now to grow our love
and
(to protect our love)

42. You and Me
Us
I love you
To a wife
Through you,
I’ve discovered that I am-
every woman’s fantasy.
You’ve made me feel a man
in every way -calmed
any fears and ideas that secretly
inside you’re wishing for
another kind of man
to share your life
and heart and bed.
Tonya, I will always feel
about you the same
way as the first time
we made love

43. Sally
I
will forever feel
as passionate
about you
…as the first time
we made love

44. Mark When first we
pledged
W hen first we
began to dare to dream…
of going through life together
…the time
to be reprogrammed
to perform to our tides, ebb
and neap… together.
The words we used and spoke when first
we began to
speak to each other-
your smile, your relief
worth …
everything…

45. and now?Steve
…………………….and now,
daily tides
repeating our words
of joining
repeating and repeating
…repeating in surfs surge
… Repeating
the pledges
between us for so long
now all words
are only
a breaking surge
against
a solid shore of life together

46. John I forgive you
I forgive you
I forgive you
I forgive you

47. Melody I forgive you
I forgive you

48. Sharon A Psalm to get
you
through
God,
Sit on my heart
God,
Sit on my heart
Compress it, sit on my heart.
Be my comfort…while I sob.
Be my rock…my support.
While I shiver in pain…
Amend my soul
… gently

49. Ishmael
I look into Your Eyes
.
I look into Your
Eyes, trying to dive
down deep past
the abyss of
your fearful
longing caress of black silk lashes,
catching the sunset gleam of hopeful
throbbing, that escaped past the
gate of your teeth,
locked against disappointment…
I look into Your Eyes
and I see that you still
have a hope deep within you
How can I help?

50. Jerimiah Like an inner wave
Breaking on an inner shore
I crest and break and com e to know the
Divine. Myself…In the clear glass mirror
surface of the pond…
I am reflected in all
of my life in all of my deaths in
all of my appetites and refusals-
in all of my hopes and
disappearing- …I am
reflected in my multi- colored Garb
of the Divine . Myself. My God…
In the plowed furrows of the harvested
field…outside the prison and the
prisoner’s walls-
I enter in and out-
I enter in and out-
knowing that praying-both to you
and to myself and to all that is
divine
-is in the invisible moving of the-
cemented stones- of the stone wall
moving a little this way
and a little that way…
moving
a little this way
and a little
that way.
to the good

51. Sharon Your child’s face
And up will grow a century plant-
That blooms once and only in one
hundred years…
and that will be your dead
son’s (daughter’s) face.

52. Isaac
My love is like fire…
My love is like fire…Your love is like
ice……. Together we make a river
………………………that runs streaming
……through the caves of the heavens
…your stalactites dripping down
through……….my sun……..in ….solar
flaring…………through the skies rafters
and charts………that witness
and photograph our fast approaching,
spiraling comet…made up of the
whirling ice chunks of your expanding
heart ...your chilling passion and
my flames shooting
through…and lighting
up the flaming of our
connection………as we
sweep...fiery and.
weeping…joyous tears into the
outlets
of the pouring rivers………..of
the solar
heart of the Milky Way…I am
the stars,
lit in colors and rays, that
spark…...non- existent light
years away……….

53. Isaac.You….the
icy borealis and Northern
show….sending…a hewing axe
chop…down through the
crashing
rootlets of my heaving heart,
my fiery heat...to …..release the
lava …the molten seals and
contracts… contracts
………superseding all laws, to pour
through…. each of
…our souls, which consumes us both …
to a core of solid coal ….commitment
-and rockets of deep seamed loyalty…as
I erupt again and again……..
we….create fierce, molten love. We
release……throughout the skies

55. Joan Flashing Open and Closed
Flashing Open and Closed
…the Door of our House after your
long awaited arrival… home. (Now come
throw
yourself upon me)
in rampant silken flush.
Somewhere else our bodies sleep.
Somewhere else faded problems matter.
Magnetic… the momentum…
(of my heartbeats) (beating) … your
footsteps coming up the stairs…and (
swallowed) … my heart… in the luster
of black pearl. ..as I enclose
…myself upon…you
(enclosing… ( you …
within me )(you) … the grain of sand
…within my soul… that lacquered
…locks
you to me……..as we (sink)…
breathing…
rising… falling, in… and out… of our
physical bodies…in which. now, and
now, I am rising, falling,( rising,
falling)(drowned) locked
within your arms.
With moan of fear and awe,
I’m shot through the
narrow lace of our breathing, which I
can still barely hear- which I can still
…still barely feel- your breath entering
………. into me,
(our mouths locked
together in the ride.)
In the tumult, I cling to you as my
ballast,
(I cling to you as the string
of my kite) ….as
I hit the high heaven winds,
and
tremble in this sudden storm, which rises
in octave with every passing second, with
each endless kiss,
that we are kissing,
And too powerful to feel fear
in this joining
I am yours now
(and now)

56. Michael, You
are my 2nd skin
are my second pair of
eyes
You are both sunrise and
sunset to me
encircling and
completing my day
You are my lesson in the
economics of love
endlessly enriching
life