Is That Just Me?

What do you see
when you look into my eyes?
Do you see desperation,
loneliness, the agony
of being in unrequited love?
Or do you see good nature,
a gentle heart, a romantic soul,
a guy who just wants to love you?

What do you hear
when I’m talking to you?
Do you hear the words
of a lost heart looking
for a safe place to hide?
Do you hear the pained cries
of a soul searching
for its true mate?
Or do you hear melodies
and enticing words
that make you lust for more?

What do you feel
when we’re together?
Do you feel a passion
heating your soul,
making your blood boil,
making your heart beat
faster and faster,
making you weak in the knees,
giving you butterflies in your stomach,
paralyzing your mind with thoughts
of everlasting love and happiness?
Or is that just me?

#222                                                                  07-29-07

Hayley’s Haiku

The best thing in you
is the thing I like the most:
Unpredictable.

#221                                  07-28-07

Hey Girl (Colloquial)

Hey girl,
I’m beggin’ you to
give me a try.
I know I’m not perfect like you,
I know I ain’t the best at what I do,
I know I ain’t the most attractive guy
you’ll ever set eyes on,
but I’ll make it up to you somehow.

Hey girl,
How about you and me
jump in my car and just drive?
I only want to be with you
and when we get out of here
that’s all I’ll ever have,
just you and the open road.

Hey girl,
has anyone ever told you
how beautiful you are?
I’d say your beauty
can only be adequately defined
as “exquisitely divine.”

Hey girl,
I just want you to know
that you have my heart
to do with what you please.
I could never escape the trap
you set when your blue eyes
look my way.

Hey girl,
I just wanted to say
that these words don’t mean
half as much as the feelings
I hold in my heart for you.

Hey girl,
I just wanted to say
that I’m in love with you.
I hope that’s OK with you,
because I can’t stop it now.

#220                                                                 07-28-07

A Love Letter, In Poem Form/A Response to His Love Letter

 *Note: I’m posting these two in the same post because they are meant to complement each other. Posting them separately would in effect place the second one before the first one, which is obviously out of order.

Dear Girl Who I’ve Fallen In Love With,

I think I’ve got a thing for you.
No simple thing,
but nothing with strings attached.
I love you unconditionally,
a love that I wish
would not be unrequited.
I want to love you more than anything,
except that I want you to love me too,
and I want you to let me love you.
That’s all I want, I don’t need anything else from you.
Someone answered my prayers
to find the perfect person to spend forever with
when you walked into my life,
and from the first moment I saw you,
I knew you were the perfection
I had been looking for all along.
I would never want you to change,
because you are the best how you are now.
I mean, I understand that time changes everyone,
but I could live with that,
as long as you don’t make yourself different.
I’ve fallen in love with your gentle kindness,
your mellow soul and your unpredictability.
When times seem difficult, you always seem to drag me
away from temptation, keep me level-headed,
keep me from doing something stupid, just by being you.
You make me feel like a better person,
more complacent, more mellow than I could ever be
by myself. I know I don’t owe you anything,
but I would love to give you my heart,
because your name is written all over it.
I couldn’t answer you if you asked me
why I love you, except that I could say
that everything about you is perfect,
even if you don’t think so yourself.
And if you can believe that, then I will gladly give you
everything I have to give.

With my whole heart,
Hopeless Romantic

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Dear Hopeless Romantic,

I never thought this day would come.
I’ve dreamed about it since we first met,
but I never thought you would love me.
I’ve dreamed about you holding me in your arms,
softly caressing my skin with your gentle hands,
and kissing me softly, with every ounce of passion
you can possibly muster, and I’ve dreamed of
returning that kiss with the exact same passion.
Just like you don’t want me to change,
I would not accept any changes from you either,
except the change that comes with time.
You are the best when you are yourself,
when you don’t act like someone else,
and I love the real you that you hide too often from the world.
I love your sense of humor, and the way you make me laugh,
and I love how gentle you are with me,
how strongly you hold me with your heart.
I believe we’re made for each other,
destined to come together and fated never to part.
I will let you love me forever,
because my heart can’t live without you.
You have a certain something that
undeniably pulls me toward you,
and I never want to escape that force.
I love you more than anything in the world,
and I couldn’t ask for anything more than to
be in your arms forever.
I promise you that I will give you my entire heart,
and everything else that I have to give,
because I feel the same love,
the same fiery passion that you do.

With my whole heart,
Girl Who You’ve Fallen in Love With

#218 & #219                                                     07-26-07

If It’s Okay With You (Quotes from a Greeting Card)

My friend found a greeting card while we were on vacation that he just had to buy for his girlfriend, and it inspired me to
write the following poem. The original card is at the bottom.

“You are the love of a lifetime
I’ve always wanted as mine.”
You are everything I’ve ever wanted
and so much more than that,
and my heart tells me every second
of every minute
of every hour
of every day
that “you are the special soul mate
I always hoped I’d find.
You are the one perfect person in my life,
everything I always hoped for… my secret
dream that swept me off my feet and really
did come true.

You have the warmth of the morning sun in
your spirit, and you have a gentle soul that
I always want to be close to. I deeply, dearly,
and happily love you,” and I will until the end of time.
“And there will never be a day when I will
take even one moment of that joy and that
sweetness for granted.” You make a certain sense
of tranquility embed itself in my mind, and you
make me feel like a better person. I will never ask
for anything more from you, because you are the best
how you are, right here, right now. “I know what a
gift you are… and I want you to know it, too.
You have an amazing way of touching
my heart, and you have a way of turning
every day into a time and a place where
the nicest feelings and the deepest gratitude
all come together. I have such an immense
amount of thanks and appreciation for all this.”
You are truly the best thing that has ever
happened to me, and I could never ask for
anything else, because there is nothing in the
entire world that could make me happier
than you do when I’m around you.

You are the only one for me,
“and if it’s okay with you,
I’d love to go on loving you
forever.”

#217                                                          07-24-07

Original card:

“You are the Love of a Lifetime
I’ve always wanted as mine…
…and you are the special soul mate
I always hoped I’d find.

You are my very own, one perfect person,
everything I always hoped for… my secret
dream that swept me off my feet and really
did come true.

You have the warmth of the morning sun in
your spirit, and you have a gentle soul that
I always want to be close to. I deeply, dearly,
and happily love you!

I can barely begin to tell you how much
I value the exquisite closeness that we have
been given. It is a truly beautiful blessing.
And there will never be a day when I will
take even one moment of that joy and that
sweetness for granted. I know what a gift
you are…

…and I want you to know it, too.
You have an amazing way of touching
my heart, and you have a way of turning
every day into a time and a place where
the nicest feelings and the deepest
gratitude all come together.

I have such an immense amount of thanks and
appreciation for all this.

And if it’s okay with you…
I’d love to go on loving you
forever.

Blue Mountain Arts™

This Isn’t A Love Poem

This isn’t a love poem,
but her bright smile reminds me
why I wake up every morning.

This isn’t a love poem,
but the scent of her perfume
floods a nose lusting for nothing more.

This isn’t a love poem,
but all I hear is the rustling
of her movement and the whispers of
her brown, silky hair,
so soft, so beautiful.

This isn’t a love poem,
but the sweet melodies
that emerge from behind
those luscious red lips—
those lips that I only need
to kiss once to feel this passion
ignite in my heart,
those lips that I would much rather
kiss a million times to make
that passion last forever—
Yes, those sweet melodies
don’t just entice me,
that voice could make me weak inside.

This isn’t a love poem,
but I could live forever,
waste away each and every day
in the Paradise she hides
behind her beautiful blue eyes.

This isn’t a love poem,
because it won’t explain why,
every night, I think of her,
why every single lonely night
finds her in my dreams,
why my heart belongs to her
despite it never having been surrendered,
why I would crawl back for more
when she unknowingly leaves me paralyzed
by the fires ignited in my soul
whenever she’s near me.

This isn’t a love poem,
because I won’t admit
that I can’t find the switch
to turn on my ability to function correctly
and turn off the fate marked “fall in love.”

This isn’t a love poem,
though I think of being with her
every second of every day without fail.

This isn’t a love poem,
although in such a short time
she has become everything to me
that can define the words
‘amazing’ and ‘perfect.’

This isn’t a love poem.
No, no, it’s far more than that.
Or, at least to me, it is much more than that.

#216                                                               07-19-07

No One Had To Tell Me

No one had to tell me you were perfect.
I realized it when we were just sitting around
and suddenly I felt more complacent
than I ever have.
I felt more mellow, I felt better about myself,
and all it took was one good look in your eyes
and one smile.
I can accept just the smiles
and gazing into those beautiful blue eyes for now,
but this thirst for your love has me craving
something more.
Your heart, your love is the treasure I seek,
the path to where you are, my treasure map,
and, like a greedy pirate, I’ll endlessly chase it
or die trying to find it.

No one had to tell me this was going to be hard,
but you are worth anything this journey will throw back at me,
because I can’t get enough of you.
Despite the light at the tunnel being so dim,
the chase has only begun, and I am prepared
to withstand any obstacle,
because I want to hold you in my arms forever,
I want your love to keep my heart from being lonely
when times seem too tough to fight through.
I want to be with you until my last breath,
until my heart stops beating,
until my time comes to move to another world,
and even then, my love for you would live on,
in your heart, in my heart,
in these words I write.

#215                                                                     07-17-07

The Wrong Emotion

Please excuse my avoidance today.
I wore an emotion on my sleeve
that I didn’t intend for you to see.
I didn’t want you to see my short temper,
I didn’t want you to see my insecurity,
I didn’t want you to see that I am
capable of ruining everything.
I never want you to see any of those things,
because I care about you too much,
I love you too much
to let that side of me hurt you at all.
So it’s not that I didn’t want to see you today,
because I would do anything to see you all the time,
it’s that if I lost you
because that side of me did something to hurt you,
I wouldn’t be able to live with myself,
because I can’t live without you.

#214                                                      07-16-07

The Truth Is That I Love You

I thought of you today,
how your scent lingers in my mind,
how your voice rings in my ears,
how your eyes stare into mine,
how you are the epitome of all of my dreams
and I held my heart in my hands,
to see if I was telling myself the truth,
to see if I really was in love with you,
and it beat faster and faster when you came to mind,
and in a flash of brilliance,
an idea came to me:
I’ll give you my heart, and everything along with it,
if you give me your heart in return.

#213                                                      07-14-07

There’s Something About You…

I’ve fallen in love again.
I don’t know if it was your perfume
(an aroma that lulled me into a dream),
or if it was the craziness you flaunt,
or if it was the way you hide
your beautiful eyes from mine,
or if it was just your smile,
but I’ve fallen in love again.
And suddenly you’ve instantly
multiplied your already-stunning attractiveness,
suddenly I feel better just thinking about you,
suddenly I feel more mellow than I ever have,
suddenly all I want is to be near you
because you make me feel good.
All I want is to talk to you
because your sweet voice could brighten any bad day.
All I want is to look into your eyes
and lose myself in whatever they hide.
All I want is to see you smile
and know I was the cause.
All I want is to hold you in my arms
just to feel the warmth of your soft skin against mine.
All I want is to kiss you softly
and find myself in another level of passion.
All I want is to be able to close my eyes
and see you without having to open them.
All I want is to be with you,
because I’ve fallen in love again,
and isn’t that what love is all about?

#212                                             07-12-07

Pocket-Sized Fantasy

This love has lasted too long,
has been far too enduring
to just remember you
by a wallet-sized picture,
a pocket-sized fantasy,
an all-too-hopeless dream.

Project PocketSize, 12, #211                                      07-11-07

A Random Thought

I’ll sit in the corner
while you point out my every flaw,
my lips quivering
out of hurt,
out of anger,
and, most of all,
out of the desire to kiss
such a beautiful girl.

Project PocketSize, 11, #210                                                  07-11-07