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"Love Comes Quietly"

Love comes quietly,

but you know when it is there,

because suddenly, you are not along anymore.

Love comes tenderly, like the light upon your face,

and it touches you, in so many wonderful ways.

And the moment that I saw you I knew I would never long for another,

so sure was my heart.

And the moment that you touched me I believe I melted into forever,

and burned like a star, for a moment with you. And love changes everything,

like a wave upon a shore, because suddenly, you are not the same anymore, anymore.

And just like your hand in mine to lead me in a dance, a promise, that I'd never danced before.

You were close as breath and tears and I was full of fears, never taken this chance before, for a lifetime with you.

And love comes quietly, but you know when it is there, because suddenly, you are not alone anymore, anymore, anymore.

Mardi Jayde Edelstein wrote the lyrics, the singer is Karolina Andersson

Music George Kostopoulos

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“Until We Meet Again”

I see you when I close my eyes

the way that you appeared in our bedroom...on that last night when we made love

You stood before me fully naked...like some warrior devoid of brilliant body paint

fierce in your wanting me

some tiny part of your spirit...gentled by my touches

Somehow you appeared relaxed

yet with nerves so raw...they danced feverishly upon my skin

Parallel emotions were revealed in your eyes

there exists the whole of a poem in those eyes...a poem that I know...I will never write

My mirror has changed...not entirely the result of a horrific haircut

i could say that three times...click my heels...and still it remains a ghastly cut...

that tell-tale “chemo cut”

Purple shadows have appeared beneath my eyes

bruises and angry eruptions splatter across my back...my belly...my limbs...

...and on my breasts

announcing the un-deniable...a weakening immune system...my defenses redefined

Often my eyes simply fill up with tears...they slip free...

barely noticed by me...and rarely acknowledged

You have been my friend...my lover...and best of all...my muse

you have drizzled the warm oil of a muse's magic into my waiting palms

releasing the manna of my words...fitting themselves round each other

to form sonnets and stanzas of un-equaled beauty

Once more...before you go

press your lips to mine...you will find them warm and softly supple

a joyous and welcome surprise

In these last few moments...we have been given a magical gift

to see one another...as once we appeared...in the splendor and magnificent of our earliest moments together

No need for messy farewells

we rejoice in the knowledge that this is not an ending...simply another beginning

a passage of time...and we will be together again...

What a glorious reunion that will be!

@Jill Sharon Kimmelman

Autumn 2020

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The Lighthouse

O, lighthouse, there on yonder shore,

So needed and so dear.

How many folks have seen your light,

Which brought them hope and cheer?

When raging storms and darkness reigned

Your light was lit to save,

For those who've sailed in billows deep,

The hearty and the brave!

May we each be a lighthouse

Built on foundation strong,

So weary sea worn travelers

Can rejoice with a song.

We're almost home take courage ..

We've made it through the dark

Our journey's almost over,

Get ready to disembark!

"Poetree" August 16, 2020

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"One Kiss From You"

One kiss from you

can make me feel alive,

like I can climb the highest mountain,

swim the deepest ocean.

One kiss from you

sends me to the stars,

the fireworks of the midnight sky.

to rise like a Phoenix,

from the depths of disgrace.

One kiss from you

turns my film noir world,

into a romantic painting of passion.

far beyond ordinary dreams.

One kiss from you

is a passionate memory,

of a faithful journey truly yet to be,

teaching me I have the fire

of desire in my wonderous soul.

Timothy Michael DiVito c2021

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"One Kiss From You"

One kiss from you

can make me feel alive,

like I can climb the highest mountain,

swim the deepest ocean.

One kiss from you

sends me to the stars,

the fireworks of the midnight sky.

to rise like a Phoenix,

from the depths of disgrace.

One kiss from you

turns my film noir world,

into a romantic painting of passion.

far beyond ordinary dreams.

One kiss from you

is a passionate memory,

of a faithful journey truly yet to be,

teaching me I have the fire

of desire in my wonderous soul.

Timothy Michael DiVito c2021

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Color My Life

My life is colored with a rainbow of hues, some brilliant and some dark

A few chosen paths, have cast a shadow, some have left their mark

My life was scattered, the colors were muted, and not well defined

The fog cleared...the veil lifted, once you were no longer on my mind

Color my life with brilliant colors...touching my souI, yearningly I desire

Purple and pink, red and blue, are the colors that I most admire

The beauty of purple, sometimes represents... my present life

It is majestic, it contains no flaws, there is no hint of strife

Still fragile and delicate, pink represents, a fresh new fragrance

I have another day, to mold as I wish, rid of blatant flagrance

So bold is the red, it gives me power, to manipulate and control

No longer shy and inwardly sullen, mighty now is my soul

Blue I use to paint the rest of the picture, it’s calms me and gives me peace

My life now joyous, everything is attainable, contentment within my grasp and reach...

Annette (Wengert) Tarpley

1/13/2021

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The Letter

I hope my letter finds you happy and well

Lend me your ear, I have something to tell

I loved you from the time, when we had first met

You’re deep husky voice, I’ll not soon forget

You captured me with, your forlorn gaze

You swept me off my feet, You continued to amaze

You looked into my eyes, you set them on fire,

I was filled with a lust, a burning desire

You whispered into my ear, you are my dear beloved

You said I was like an angel, that was sent from above

Do you feel the same way, that I am feeling too

Were you also smitten with me, beholding my eyes of blue

Did I take you to the moon, and back to the earth again

Will you be my forever lover, will you be my forever friend

So many questions race through my mind

I never imagined, it would be true love I would find

I want you to know, I am looking forward to when we meet

With my hands I will cradle your face, with a kiss we shall greet

I say goodbye for now, promising always to be true

Our future lies together, may our days apart be few

©️Annette (Wengert) Tarpley

11/20/20

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"Touching You"

Your hand makes me feel alive,

invigorated and romantic. . .

so phenomenal.

Your sultry lips of red wine truth,

passionate as a Summer's day. . .

so desired.

Yet your sweet soul is the key

to unlock my door. . .

to humanity.

Your touch embraces my heart,

leading me to truly believe. . .

I'm worth something.

Gentle as a Spring's breeze

upon my black heart. . .

you revive me.

The touch of your intimate hand

calmed my deafening thunder. . .

taming my storm.

Timothy Michael DiVito c2020

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"I Love You"

You make me feel

like getting out of bed in the morning,

breathing, eating, living.

Tasting your kiss

sends me another world,

beyond that of ordinary men.

Please hold me so tight

never let me go alone into the darkness

of mankind's broken destiny.

As the glimmer of stars

gives me hope of a new tomorrow,

your strength gives me the will to live.

Romantic, passionate hearts,

lingering kisses of such intoxicating grace,

I love you and I will forever my love.

Timothy Michael Divito

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In The Rain

The air begins to gloom

Thunders echo and loom

Lightnings are flashing

Ambience seems murky

It starts to drizzle sweetly.

Under this rain, we jolly smile

As we both earnestly cher​ish

Dancing beneath the rainy sky.

We sense splashing sensations

A bond of sexual, body attraction.

Mingling with the rainy rhythms

Activating our physical atoms

Like drowning in ocean of wisdom

Our sanity revolves to share

The way we feel love and care.

In our improvised choreography,

We laugh, hug, kiss, spin, and sway,

Like washing machine in a laun​dry

Purifying and draining the dirt away

In this fine raining day.

Alan KKLIEW ®

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"Travel The Broken Road"

Big as the sky as wide as forever,

is what your soul sincerely is to me.

Shining as the midnight stars whenever,

my heart is in darkness, no longer free.

As hot as the sun in the universe,

never ending beauty so elegant.

My true muse to my perfect lovely verse,

enabling my soul to shine as vibrant.

Tastes of such elation wash over me,

like the ocean upon the sandy shore.

Erotic is your touch that sets me free,

opening my faithful, passionate door

You are my broken hearts final journey,

traveling to my foretold destiny.

Timothy Michael DiVito c2020 "SONNET"

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Dulce et Decorum Est Pro patria mori.

"it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

BY WILFRED OWEN

*"Dulce et Decorum Est" is a poem by the English poet Wilfred Owen. Like most of Owen's work, it was written between August 1917 and September 1918, while he was fighting in World War 1. Owen is known for his wrenching descriptions of suffering in war. In "Dulce et Decorum Est," he illustrates the brutal everyday struggle of a company of soldiers, focuses on the story of one soldier's agonizing death, and discusses the trauma that this event left behind. He uses a quotation from the Roman poet Horace to highlight the difference between the glorious image of war (spread by those not actually fighting in it) and war's horrifying reality.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

Summary

The speaker begins with a description of soldiers, bent under the weight of their packs like beggars, their knees unsteady, coughing like poor and sick old women, and struggling miserably through a muddy landscape. They turn away from the light flares (a German tactic of briefly lighting up the area in order to spot and kill British soldiers), and begin to march towards their distant camp. The men are so tired that they seem to be sleeping as they walk. Many have lost their combat boots, yet continue on despite their bare and bleeding feet. The soldiers are so worn out they are essentially disabled; they don't see anything at all. They are tired to the point of feeling drunk, and don't even notice the sound of the dangerous poison gas-shells dropping just behind them.

Somebody cries out an urgent warning about the poison gas, and the soldiers fumble with their gas masks, getting them on just in time. One man, however, is left yelling and struggling, unable to get his mask on. The speaker describes this man as looking like someone caught in fire or lime (an ancient chemical weapon used to effectively blind opponents). The speaker then compares the scene—through the panes of his gas-mask and with poison gas filling the air — to being underwater, and imagines the soldier is drowning.

The speaker jumps from the past moment of the gas attack to a present moment sometime afterward, and describes a recurring dream that he can't escape, in which the dying soldier races toward him in agony.

The speaker directly addresses the audience, suggesting that if readers could experience their own such suffocating dreams (marching behind a wagon in which the other men have placed the dying soldier, seeing the writhing of the dying soldier's eyes in an otherwise slack and wrecked face, and hearing him cough up blood from his ruined lungs at every bump in the path—a sight the speaker compares to the horror of cancer and other diseases that ravage even the innocent), they would not so eagerly tell children, hungry for a sense of heroism, the old lie that "it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

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Surrounded!

The mountains before me,

The rivers behind,

The bright sun above me

Are gifts that I find.

The ocean calls loudly,

I answer it's call,

The forest is beckoning,

With trees green and tall.

The birds warble sweetly,

It rings in my ear!

Bees buzz, sipping nectar,

At the flowers right here.

All nature surrounds me,

And continually confounds me,

With blessings so bountiful,

I can scarce take them in!

Kathy Jo Brynt

"Poetree" © 2019

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"Coming Home"

It was the Winter of 1996

she went away from me,

never to return to my life.

I see her eyes glimmer

in the stars,

her smile is the noonday sun.

Her walk is the sway

of the trees,

in our romantic field of dreams.

Her lips are strawberries

on any day in May,

tasting of sweet intoxication.

Now I am without her

left to dream,

about dying to be with her.

Leave a place for me,

next to that

brilliant star in your heart. . . .

because I am coming home.

Timothy Michael DiVito c2001

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