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Long Distance Lovers

wist and fitful longing flourish in the hearts of isolated lovers for the long and lonely distance borne by fate and fickle purpose — 4/6/10 – 137 #favorite

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Getting To Know You

the rush and press of kind strangers fill the hours with questions, and practiced replies. getting to know the world in which you live and all its inhabitants is a pleasure i would not let pass me by — 4/4/10 – 135

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Abba

i missed your love its sweet surcease and the richness of its healing grace — Abba – 4/2/10 – 133

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The Warmth of Your Touch

the warmth of your touch is a thrill to set my heart beating the feel of your fingertips is a world to encapsulate my hopes and dreams — 4/1/10 – 132 #poetry #love

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How Do I Resolve

how do i resolve the creeping tension, the knot of pain, the sweet agony residing in my heart? i can feel its emotion welling in my throat the fear and hope and beginning throes of love — 3/20/10 – 117

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Lux

your lips are apple sweet, rich and red and curved your locks like golden strands, catch the sun at midday and your smile is a vision to produce rapture in the soul of all who can’t help but love you — Lux – 3/10/10 – 106

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I Would Spirit Away the Hours

i would spirit away the hours and spend my time with nary a thought to cost or consequence. we would speak of common things and i would not trade it for all the uncommon the world would offer. — 3/3/10 – 99 #ruth

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Your Voice Warms Me

your voice warms me with its lingering joy like a warm wine or heady potion and it leaves me happier than i was the day before we met — 2/28/10 – 96 #ruth

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Your Gaiety is a Balm

your gaiety is a balm to a weary soul your laughter a sweet surcease to the turmoil made strong by heartbreak and care unrequited, unfulfilled until you bloomed in my life — 1/29/10 – 65

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Confession

by our confession / his indwelling made perfect / our hearts for love — loosely from 1 John 4:15-19

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Calico, and My Fondest Dreams

you were my rest and i ached to rest weary shoulders, and a deep deep breath. i’d think of you, and i’d see flowers, calico, and my fondest dreams. we were so close to perfect, but now you’re gone, and i find myself missing you — 12/13/09 – 10 #favorite

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Hard (i) (an edit)

someone said the test of love is making hard decisions– choosing, for another’s sake, the necessary actions; taking the proper path though strewn with rocks, watered with tears, and fraught with pain. for love chooses what is best chooses what must be shouldered, borne, and done, in spite of what…

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New Love

i felt the swift and sudden dropso eager, engaged, and desiringbut also the slow and sober thoughtthat she matters more to me than self-4/7/08

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Stricken

I am cut to the quick, I am stricken,Undeserving of the mercy that You have givenHow can I make for my life a demandWhen all that I am is Yours to commandI grasp in my heart for what I deserveI forget that my life is here only to serveAnd I’m…

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For Love

My God, my God, He criedAs He suffered alone, dyingOn a cross, a broken treeEli, Eli, lama sabachthaniForsaken, for love, for me

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Who Are You Lord?

who are You Lord,to pursue me with Your love?who made the wind and the rain?who made the mountains danceand the very earth tremble.who are You Lord,to invest Yourself in me?I who merit naught but judgment?I who have spurned the sweetest giftsof your deep and merciful heart.

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