Forever My Heart...Desires
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Book Excerpts: Here are portions of two pieces of work from the collection
Never Realized
I can see your lovely face And I can feel your tender smile And there amid the indescribable Splendor of your quiet eyes I see affection warm and true Perhaps somewhere among these things lies the reason I am inspired by you And when you move I am reminded of the gentle breezes And graceful bends of summers most beautiful flowers Only the sound of your voice is more to be desired There is a certain freshness about you one wishes to immortilize For me you have become a dream- An endless dream never to be realized. . . So when you leave, as you surely must I'll think often of the two of us . . . |
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Book Summary
Love- it is an excelling emotion that drives all of us; to heights we've not imagined and depths we thought ourselves incapable of. Yet, we continually and endlessly search for it - the pain of it, the joy of it, the thrill of it. It evokes so many other emotions- jealousy, rage, curiousity, excitement, kindness, happiness, satisfaction, lust- but love is "the greatest "of them all. It is a life-long journey. This book represents the wonder of it all-finding and discovering true love- and the feelings we have struggled with and tried so desperately to express. They are captured here and written in the form of romantic poems, love letters and short stories, collected over a lifetime. I've composed many poems for friends celebrating anniversaries, birthdays, and special occasions. I've written poems to commemorate historic milestones, for family, for those I've loved, for the beauty and pleasures of life; for the torment and pain of losing love or never really having found it; for the realization of thought, for the beauty of nature, the pleasure of a moment; for the discovery of a new experience- but mostly for the joy of writing poetry-one of my favorite art forms. This special collection of romantic poetry is a celebration of Love. It is finding that wonderful someone, or honoring a love now lost. It is an expression of self and a journey into the deepest corners of the heart - into its possibilities and improbabilities. It is a compelling force that awakens and stirs the soul. It is about the one emotion we constantly seek ; that we long for. It is the many and endless aspects of love, because Forever My Heart. . .Desires. -Skip Stackhouse |
A Love Letter
Verily Victoria, . . .
My respect for you like my affection seems immeasurable. Yet I mean every word; as lusty and as reckless as they may sound. I think of how torturous those many minutes away from you are and then I come to realize how different a place the world would be had I never met you. As if these feelings (certainly these words) would never exist in your absence. I have hopefully been very restrained in my longing to be near you.
And I promised to maintain this discretion. For all the right reasons, so tender is my love. . .May gentle be your response.
2013 Stackhouse Ink. ©
Verily Victoria, . . .
My respect for you like my affection seems immeasurable. Yet I mean every word; as lusty and as reckless as they may sound. I think of how torturous those many minutes away from you are and then I come to realize how different a place the world would be had I never met you. As if these feelings (certainly these words) would never exist in your absence. I have hopefully been very restrained in my longing to be near you.
And I promised to maintain this discretion. For all the right reasons, so tender is my love. . .May gentle be your response.
2013 Stackhouse Ink. ©
