Poems from a Friend - Poet Taking a Rest Article Index Poems from a Friend The Scar You Carried Away The Dirt and the Weeds On the Forest Floor Amaranths In Dew Poet Taking a Rest Second Note to a Past Lover This Desperate Threshhold Nearing the Base of West Mountain Spring Hills of Missouri Penning Delicate Words Summer River Wildflowers Fall Valley Parched Sweating at the Meramec Humming In the Wind Horse Travel Through the Blues Nectar The Long Limbed Day Jaguar Leaping in the Wind Outrider Hangover Medicine In the Avoidance of Women Pollen Storm Blessing The Barn Where It Was Dry A Pure Blue Flame Where the Hawks Go Dog's Neck Games of Chance and Get Even Waterbug The Morning World Seven Colors of the Sun All Pages Page 6 of 31 Poet Taking Rest My lover,I admire the lengthand graceof your well-shaped hands,delicate wings of the butterflypressed tightly togetherin prayer,and in between them,my only thin asylumof brief repose. Prev Next View the discussion thread. back to top
♥ "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss
♥ “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
♥ “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
♥ “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
♥ “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein