Renga 01 - May 16, 2000
bits of poetry traded between HS and CN on May 16, 2000
Know that good things begin with the first step.
And every step that you take afterwards.
Ah yes, but it is in those steps that we find pause to truly
appreciate how far we have come and that we no longer walk alone.
Although the path may be strewn with thorns,
one takes greater pleasure in knowing that we
walk amongst the roses of this world.
The skies are dark enough
to remind me
that the sun is hidden behind
and like love
one must wait
for the clouds
to clear.
Through our life we wait
Looking for our perfect self
To find it in 'us'
To search and not find
is most disheartening
to go through life
and not look
is most saddening
but to not look
and find
is most joyous.
If in not looking we find,
Then in not asking we hear
The words two hearts speak
Across the miles-
Souls connect, hearts are bound
Baptized by fire-
Purified in passion.
For what is love
but a gift?
Unsought
it carries more hopes
than our deepest dreams
Unbidden
it steps into our lives
Unending
we remember
Unerring
we accept.
Unconditionally, no strings-
Wildest passions tamed to a gentle kiss
Your heart caressed, your soul gently cradled
Within the softest whisper of love.
There is the tantalizing feel of satin
sliding across your skin
carefully
drifting
across
the
peaks
and valleys
that shelter the sweet taste
of
your
body.
The moon
three thousand miles
across the land
the moon rises
and a lonely heart
offers her thoughts
to the moon
in hopes that
the one she loves
will, too,
look to the sky
and think of her
Separated
by time
and distance
the two lovers
love apart
sharing with the moon
their deepest thoughts.
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