For my wife...

• S-wordsman

  19 May 06, 12:36

  This poem is dedicated to the love of my life, my wife...
  
  For those of you yearning to write the perfect love poem, I yearn with you, but now would like to ask your opinion of this attempt.
  Thank you.
  P.S. I will post another poem I wrote for her 10 years ago while we were dating in a few days. Then you can compare the two.
  
  I cannot stop but think...
  
  I cannot stop but think about you every single day,
  
  A second comes, a minute goes, the hours crawl away,
  
  The rising sun gives rise to thoughts of smiles upon your face
  
  And time belies your timeless mien, no feature out of place,
  
  I wonder why in dreams I fly aloft upon the clouds,
  
  Beyond imagination, high above the dizzy crowds,
  
  I whirl around, and tumble down, ecstatic from the sound,
  
  The thrill to wheel, to feel unstill when love is all around.
  
  My mind cannot remember when this heart had skipped a beat
  
  For thence the beats came strong and wild, repose was no mean feat.
  
  As time flew past, this whirlwind gust, unsettles embattled mind
  
  And rearranges, in gentle stages: "From 'lost' I came to 'find.'"
  
  Its strange when we, fall in strange love, the stranger of the kind
  
  You lose yourself until you meet the love you love to find.
  
• expiringpoet

  19 May 06, 14:13

  this is too beautiful ! i have been trying to write a love poem too, so far unsucessful. I've concluded i cannot write one
  
  I read one yesterday by Maya Angelou. Its beautiful. Will try to post here soon to share, if i have time. Alternatively its in my blog, can take a look and let me know what you guys think.
• S-wordsman

  19 May 06, 17:21

  Originally posted by expiringpoet:

  I read one yesterday by Maya Angelou. Its beautiful. Will try to post here soon to share, if i have time. Alternatively its in my blog, can take a look and let me know what you guys think.

  Yes, I read your blog and saw the Maya Angelou poem, that's what urged me to post this one and ask for different opinions.
  
  You know what's even stranger, I'd actually sat for a poetry clinic by a Jamaican-born poet (whose name I've completely forgotten-go ahead shoot me!) 10 years ago and wrote a love poem for my wife (then girlfriend) during one of her sessions.
  
  It was supposed to be a praise poem, so I knew no one else to praise but my girlfriend. In the poem, I had imagined her as my wife. Here it is:
  
  My wife, Siti
  
  My wife Siti, she's so pretty,
  Prettier than she, is nobody.
  Soft is her voice, for lying down to sleep,
  No need for sleeping pills, no need for counting sheep.
  
  My wife Siti, graceful is her walk
  Flowing, breezing, swinging, when her body talks,
  Inspiring is she, inspired so is me
  Prettier than pretty, is my wife Siti.
  Nobody, is prettier than she.
  
  My wife Siti, smiles a smile so shy;
  A nightly blossom bashful, to the bright blue sky.
  And when that sweet shy smile blooms brightly just for me,
  Prettier than she, is nobody.
  
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  As you can see I like to rhyme.
  
  Thanks for your comments.
• expiringpoet

  20 May 06, 05:38

  Awww.... so sweet! Gorgeous sounding wife, lucky you!
• alexkusu

  20 May 06, 07:22

  Post any poems ur wife 'wrote' or will 'write' to you here