Breath

Breath is a greater teasure than any possession, yet is not owned. And to spend breath in an act of giving something needed does not reduce it.

Gratitude & Love

The priest was asked, "Father, what is the difference between gratitude and love?" The priest replied, "When you see love between a mother and her child, between husband and wife, between two friends, there is no distinction between gratitude and love. They are the same."

To love is to be a universe, to be in love is to animate it. 

Who Is My Neighbor?

Who is my neighbor? Those within the distance of my means. 

Grammar

Grammar is not genius; understanding intent and meaning is.

The Low Door to Love

i once came to love by a gate
to a door i was too tall for
and ruminated on the chore
until it was too big to state,

then i recalled the old wooded gate
with its stone wall and door so low
and how i stooped and bent my back
and to the other side walked through slow.

A Petal Falls

is it a flower when a petal falls?
and can the same be true for love?

Natural Love

a natural source
knows its natural course
and can do nothing less nor more,
and in moving to its end
it moves to its beginning.
there is nothing new in this knowing.
we have known it before we knew,
tho in knowing it anew
we are astonished
because we see the other
in the mirror of our soul
and feel at home.

Love Wrecks

A love that moves too fast usually crashes into another love.

Essential Wonder

Like is more essential than love, love more wonderful than like.

A Poetic Reply

I received a letter. In its conclusion, I was asked, "What should I be?" I replied in a letter just one line, "Gold as strong as iron, iron as soft as gold, and in a sea of sand, a diamond light so bold."

Bankruptcy

I was asked, 'What is bankruptcy?' I replied, 'Love without respect.'

pull out the weeds

A relationship is a garden mutually owned. If one or both finds weeds sprouting, it doesn't mean that the garden be abandoned and joint ownership dissolved. Help the garden which mutually benefits. Get down and pull out the weeds.

love learns

In love we learn then live our love.

where nothing is

The value of any two links is that they join by embracing each other through the place where nothing is in each. Each link retains its individuality yet together gain a new identity. And so it is with us.

just another flower

The young man explained his difficulty in love. The old man advised, "Don't be just another flower in a field of flowers a woman loves."

as i am

It was their first date. She was lovely, articulate, intelligent ~ and very inquisitive. Growing increasingly uncomfortable and puzzled by her persistent questions about his past accomplishments, Sam excused himself and said, 'What I have done means nothing to me for the present. Nor should it to you. You build memories with me not with my past.'
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your very own

Love is a bank.

two halves complete

The heart is made of two halves and so is love.

an unshadowing love

Unconditional love: where those in its presence have no shadows.