Nor our truths unwavering
But like the moon's pull on the tide
Our fingers touch our hearts collide
I'll be a moonsbreath by your side.
~Loreena McKenitt-Samain Night
As for me, I looked at him and felt nothing else.
His every movement, his manners,
The sound of his voice made me tremble.
When a passion like this gets hold of you,
It never lets you go,
Never till your last breath.
It burns all in you,
And still flames,
When there is nothing more to burn...
But then, how happy, oh!
How happy I was!
~Ayn Rand, The Husband I Bought
Sometimes love comes quickly
In that instant when your eyes meet
And hearts are exchanged
With a wordless glance.
~Tess Templer
Follow your heart
because your heart will know
the love that is meant for you.
Of what does a true kiss consist?
Ambrosia on which gods subsist,
Tremendous heat which sun can't give,
God's heaven in one moment lived...
~From "Composition Of A Kiss" by Abelardo Subido
A love without kisses is like a conversation without words,
A love without kisses is like a night without stars,
Kisses as burning as the sun,
Kisses as deep as the night…
Kisses kept are wasted,
Love is meant to be tasted.
~Abrial Hayes
Wherever love is,
I want to be.
I will follow it
as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
~Jeannette Winterson
I'll love you till the sea runs dry
And the rocks all melt with the sun
I'll love you till the day I die
Though you'll never be my own
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart,I'll stay there forever.
~Winnie the Pooh to Christopher Robin
The most precious possession that ever comes to a manin this world is a woman's heart.
~Holland
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
~by Kahlil Gibran
Of all the music that reached farthest into the heaven,
it is the beating of a loving heart.
~Henry Ward Beecher
If I could reach up
and hold a star
for every time you've made me smile,
the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
~unknown
Love looks not with the eyes
but with the mind.
~William Shakespeare
Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside their soul and you both know it.
We cannot kindle when we will
The fire that in the heart resides
The spirit bloweth and is still
In mystery our soul abides.
~Matthew Arnold
Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea,
Mermaids are chaunting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.
~Stephen Foster
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
~William Wordsworth
MEETING AT NIGHT
The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
~Robert Browning
ALLA MARI
Alla mare mi portati se voleti i mici sonati
Alla mare alla mia cosa mi ama la donna mia
Alla mare alla mare mintre compo cogio a mare
To the sea to the sea let me follow
To save me from burning and heal my sorrow
Taking the way of sand and water
The tide is the last way to love my Mother
Alla mare alla mare mintre compo cogio a mare
Down the dunes with sister and stranger
The wicked women who dance in their danger
Craving the blessing all together
Of grass and sea with shell and feather
Alla mare alla mare mintre compo cogio a mare
So in love does my Lady enjoy me
That death by drowning shall not destroy me
Life on the tide will run before me
The long wave, the grey wave shall be my story
~Unknown
I'le go to my love where he lies in the deep,
And in my embraces my dearest shall sleep:
When we awake, the kind dolphins together shall throng,
And in chariots of shells draw us along.
The orient pearls, which the ocean bestowes,
With coral we'll mix, and a crown soe compose;
The sea-nymphs shall sigh, and envy our bliss,
We will teach them to love, and their cockles to kiss.
For my love sleeps now in a wat'ry grave,
He hath nothing to shew for his tombe but a wave:
I'le kiss his cold lips, not the corall more red,
That growes where he lies in his wat'ry bed.
Ah! ah! my love's dead; there was not a bell,
But a trition's shell,
To ring, to ring out his knell.
~Unknown
This limited edition work of art is by Frank Hopper and is entitled WHAT HAVE YOU DONEFor more of his work, click here
Love
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from the
perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer remember your hands;
how did your lips feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues drowsing in the parks,
the white statues that have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice; I have forgotten
your eyes.
Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to my vague memory of
you. I live with pain that is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
do me irreperable harm.
Your caresses enfold me, like climbing vines on melancholy walls.
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every
window.
Because of you, the heady perfumes of summer pain me; because
of you, I again seek out the signs that precipitate desires: shooting
stars, falling objects.
~Pablo Neruda
Deep Water
When you're standing in deep water,
Bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall.
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love, love, love.
It's nothing without love.
~Jewel
drowing in love
She rises from the sea, wet and full of lust. She dreams of him. He sits alone on the beach, perfect midnight blue hair, pale, pale skin, strikingly bright golden eyes, captivating her even at this distance. She stays in the water, the sea making love to her, teasing her, tempting her, caressing her. She dreams of his touch. She imagines covering him in her celestial violette lip gloss, bathing him in kisses.
She wants to be like the pretty girls. Her long hair, flowing like a pink maddening river. He’d get lost and tangled in it. Drown forever. Her dresses, made of shells and crystal, stitched with the most exotic vines, will never peel off her as easily as the simple dresses and jeans of the other girls. She’s not afraid to love him. They’ll all sleep with him, but that’s it. She’ll make erotic love to him, for hours, and love him more than the act.
The boy watches the sea, ignoring the girls that are suddenly surrounding him. He’s watching that enchanting sea girl as she swims back into the depths of the water, leaving a trail of glitter behind her. He wishes he could be the sea, so she could be in love with him too.
~author unknown
Music,when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory-Odors,
when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves,when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts,
when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
~Percy Shelley
"The Fisherman And The Siren"
Frederick Leighton, a.k.a Baron Leighton of Stretton 1830-1896
LUSTFUL LONGING
Tell me what I'd have to change. Who would I have to be
To slip into your arms; for you to make sweet love to me.
Must I climb the highest cliff ; swim along the ocean floor
Crawl over broken glass - would you demand that I do more?
Could you take me as I am, with my issues and my flaws
Pull me to your chest without a hesitation or a pause?
Slide your hungry tongue between my parted lips.
Run your anxious fingers along my quivering hips.
Wrap me in your passion, expose your every need.
Press your steamy lips to mine, every secret freed.
Sprinkle your tears across my cheek, confess every desire
Moan my name, call me yours, and set my soul on fire.
Need me more with every breath that slips into your chest,
Please me nightly, miss me daily, never compare me with the rest.
Grip my wrists; look in my eyes, and say the words I long to hear
Kiss me roughly, and weep my name, forever hold me dear.
Do I ask for wishes that could never quite come true?
Is my sin, my greatest fault, that I can't stop loving you?
~Jennifer Benfer
ECSTASY
in the gentle
tides of
lovers
let the calming
waters pull
you down
when I touch
you
I feel you
shiver
I feel your
heartbeat
I can never
get enough
as we leave
the
world behind
restless turns
moist
your
mouth
with my
tongue
touching your
face
my hands strayed
knowing
your taste
ecstasy
fill me
full
with thirsty
love
flow inside me
like
champagne
flowing inside
the spiral
as we
feel the
water
rushing over
us
this gentle tide
seeing this ocean
in your eyes
~LC
I MUST BE ASLEEP
Am I awake? Can this be real?
I'm drunk in my desire,
As you lay next to me
in a bed of rose pedals and forgotten dreams.
Somehow you brought it all back to me,
feelings of erotic passion and a breath of life,
I thought they were forever lost
in an eternal darkness left by lovers gone.
My eyes smile once again at the beauty before them,
my lips ache once again to be kissed,
my hands long to touch your burning flesh,
my heart pounds so hard it nearly escapes my chest.
Oh, I must be asleep! can this really be true?
~TJ
This work of art is by Boris Vallejo
WHALE SONG
I think of you and the memories
Echo through my heart
Haunting and beautiful
Like whale song through the ocean
Lonliness wells up
From the depths of my soul
A leviathan
Breaching the surface in a salt spray of tears.
~Kim Estes
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