Monday, May 19, 2014

Why I Love You

this is a list I wrote. I added rhythm and rhyme, to give it the feel of poetry.

Why I Love You

I like you for your mind--intelligent and curious
I like you for your eyes--so deep and mysterious
I like you for your passion--strong, real and meaningful
I like you for your hair--dark, soft, and beautiful
I like you for your fun--you live crazy and free
I like you for your joy--so powerful it consumes me
I like you for your family--and all the things we do
I like you for your self--and I love you for that too
I love you for your smile--I see every time we meet
I love you for your heart--so passionate and sweet
I love you for your beauty--always present, always new
I love you for your love--always steady, always true

Wood Working

There is something truly amazing about taking a rough cut piece of lumber and turning it into a piece of art. The entire process gets me excited. taking an idea to paper, and then from paper to wood, and then watch as it becomes something beautiful. when you are looking at the completed piece it feels as if a childhood dream of yours has come true. something that was once just a fantasized figment of your imagination is now reality. Wood working is one of the things I love doing, and I hope to continue doing into my old age.

Sleepless Nights

This is a Sestina poem I wrote earlier in the year

Sleepless Nights


Some days life will spit in your face, and then throw you down
Then pick you up just to push you around
Sometimes it rains till you are up to your head
Then relieved to see the sun, but you burn till you are red
But its the sunless days and the moonless nights
That make you appreciate the light


Today my heart is heavy, but it should be light
I dont know what it is, but something has me down
It’s like standing under the sun, but seeing the night
I’m standing on solid ground, but my emotions are spinning around
I don’t have any wounds, but I’m bleeding red
I’m struggling to figure out what is going on inside my head


The struggle is to keep it in your head
To carry your heavy heart as if it were light
Write the story of your heart and hardly let it be read
Show to your closest friends what you wrote down
But don’t show it to too many, or it might get around
You don’t want to drive to many into depressive, sleepless nights


But it’s your loved ones who help you get through the sleepless nights
They help straighten out all the crazy in your head
So find the good ones and keep them around
Some time they can make your heavy heart feel light
It’s the people who love you who will pick you up when the world knocks you down
They will clean you up and wipe away the blood running red


But there is that special person who comes holding roses of red
She stays awake with you on those sleepless nights
She will stay with you through it all and never let you down
she will hold you tight, wipe the tears and lift your head
and when your heart isn't light, she will be your light
and when everyone else gives up, she will hang around


Some day I’m sure I’ll finally come around
But eventually the sun will again set red
Another storm will come and deprive me of the light
I’ll fight through the days, just to fight through the night
And then I’ll fight will all I've got just to get ahead
Because some days life will throw you down


But she will pick you up when you are down
She will hold you tight, wipe the tears, and lift your head
And she will hold you through the sleepless nights

True Love

This is a poem I wrote for my girl friend. I wrote in on a piece of paper, and put it in the rapper of some Brazilian chocolates I ordered for her.

True Love


I've tried to write love poems before, but its hard to write about love, when you don't know what true love is.
but if true love protects, and it dreams, if true love wonders and it believes, and if true love forgives
and if true love does all of these things without asking for a thing in return, than I truly love you

I can’t wait to see what this bud of love turns into, but for now it,s young, and maybe a little dumb, but its true!