Valentine Verses

Easily Pleased 

What do I want for Valentine ?

Not chocolates, gems or dresses, 

Just love, you and sweet caresses, 

Forever us knowing love divine.  

What do I want for next year?  

Not holidays, fancy meals or promotions, 

Just love, you and your devotions, 

Forever us knowing love is premier. 

What do I want for life?

Not fast cars, houses or high fashion, 

Just love, you and loads and loads of passion, 

Forever us being a loving husband and wife! 

The Gift 

You hold the Key to my secret, my gift, 

You unlock the gate to my love, 

Where eternal love springs forth 

New and surprising delights for you to adore, 

Each time you turn the key 

Warm emotions radiate, create 

Love of the unknown, 

Everyday new gems 

Explore! 

You hold the key to our secret, our gift, 

Nurture and cultivate it for evermore, 

Like every natural organic 

It will flourish and grow, 

Each time you turn the key 

Our love will regenerate, create even more, 

Emotions will reach fresh heights, intensify,

 Mature !

We must keep our key safe, complete ,

So our love remains fresh, sweet, 

Our love will forever surprise us, 

This,our secret, our gift 

How our two soul are destined to live ,

Forever,Together, 

Spring will be constant in our hearts, 

Always new ground to uncover, 

New gifts to be found,

 Discovered! 

Love is Our gift  

Moonbeams and Dreams 

Picture by Laurent Laveder

I would captured the moon for you 
If I knew your love was true 
I would stop the ocean tides 
If your love for me was bona fide
I would capture the stars that shine
If  you would love me, be only mine
 I would make heaven our home
If you would love me and me alone
Angels on harps would play
If you promised not to stray
We'd feast on the foods of gods
If you would love me, give me the nod
You will always be my faithful queen
In the land of my silly valentine dreams !

Vintage Valentine 

I love you ,Oh so very much !

My body tingles with every touch,

When you look at me in that way, 

Time stops, ceases to exist at least for a day,

When you hold me so near in your arms, 

No man or beast would dare do me harm 

As we lie close, caressing one another, 

No goddess in heaven could want another lover,

Yet this is our heaven night after night, 

Our years together and it still feel so right! 

Our love is alive, it's still so much fun,

Never to be relinquished 

Not even for the moon, stars or sun,

My deepest wish is to remain with you, in this bed, 

Till we're very, very old or preferably dead!  

So when we finally reach those famous pearly gates 

You and I can start on over, right from our first date ! 

Room With A View

Room With A View 

Banksy 

Oh for a room with a view
Just me and you,
We could sit for hours
Talk about ours,
The  times gone by,
 Things that were said
The reasons why ?
In our room with a view.

Oh for a room with a view
Just me and you,
We could reminisce
About our first  kiss,
That first date
When you were late,
In our room with a view. 

Oh for a room with a view
Just me and you,
What would we do,
When we were through
Chatting for hours
Remembering the past
But would we last?
In our room with a  view
 Just me and you!

New year,New Beginnings

New Year, New Beginning.

New Year, New beginnings,

 Promises made, yet already thinning,

New Friendships ready to be created, 

Old ones needing nurtured, tended, updated!

 

Brand new goals to reach, set for pursuing,

Yet past disappointments linger, still doing their wooing,

It's a new year and new beginnings are the offering, 

 Tho thoughts in your head persist, constantly wafting!

So you should take note of your dreams, explore the new,

Learn from the lessons of the past,

For

When you least expect

It,

They will come

And

Torment you !!

Childhood Stories

Childhood Stories 

In idyllic innocence 

When the sun was constant with it brilliance 

 Time seemed to stand still 

Imagination running riot and with time to kill, 

The dusty books that smelt of age, 

Became my friends and how I'd engage, 

My dreams and notions, 

Were fuelled by mystery, fantasy and magic potions,

Characters and creatures leapt from every leaf, 

Performing feats beyond belief,

Witches,fairies,treasure islands and gangs of chums,  

Staved of boredom and twiddling thumbs, 

Now ensconced in middle age 

How I wish I could turn back the page, 

When life was idyllic in it's innocence, 

And

 The sun always shone brightly in it's brilliance ! 

 Submitted to : Gooseberry Garden Poetry Picnic  whose theme is Childhood, Dreams, Books, and Role Models

Dreamy Dragons ( Childs Lit )

Dreamy Dragons 

Natasha Head 

                                       The last two baby dragons 

That roamed the earth, 

Only blew fire of lava for mirth, 

Without big grown up dragons there to help 

They feasted upon only fruits, candy and kelp, 

Every day they frolicked around and jousted, 

Their wickedness diluted, slowly ousted, 

 The red,hot raging, fire that they breathed, 

Diminished daily as they teethed

Their skin that was very, very, dry and glum 

Turned bright, beautiful, rainbow colours that were fun 

So the fire breathing beasties of the past, 

Those bad ones were never ever going to last. 

Now all the dragons in our minds, 

Are now beautiful,colourful and kind!  

Breathing only stardust and moon beams

Popping up only in our fairy tales and favourite dreams! 

 Submitted to : In Tandem  where art inspires !..this weeks picture created by Natasha Head 

Reach For The Sky

Reach For The Sky 

If we could put our head in the clouds, 

When our world become too loud, 

Could we use this as an escape, 

So our ills could evaporate? 

If we could stand way back, 

Could we cleanse societies plaque,

Clear up the unwanted debris, 

Allow our children to play free?  

If we could reach for the sky, 

Would it dismiss our earthly woes goodbye, 

Release us from financial cuffs, 

  So global markets let us pay just enough? 

So play in the clouds 

Where dreams are allowed, 

For if we lose all hope, 

This world won't cope 

 So Reach for the sky 

 Go on just try !

Submitted to : Dverse Poets  for their Open Link Night check it out a site where writers share 

Life's Like That !

Life's Like That  

Photo by Susan Grant 

Life's like that 

Up and down 

Same routines 

Round and round 

Frighten to change 

Scared to drown ! 

Life's like that 

For young and old, 

A cyclical roundabout, 

A need for control 

Marching of times 

Until

 Our final bell chimes! 

Life's like that 

Up and down 

Same old, same old, 

Round and round, 

Until 

We change Our mould !

Life's like that 

Until, 

We make that lunge, 

Take the plunge, 

Jump into waters uncharted,

Pump ompfh into our lives 

Get our dreams started 

Life's like that !

More Pictures by : Susan Grant

A Magical Mystery Tour

A Magical Mystery Tour 

A magical mirage lives inside my head 

A place serene,green a proper homestead,

A babbling brook saunters along. 

Running over rocks creating  it's song ,

The air oozes freshness and perfume 

from blossoms so sweet, 

Where song birds sing their melodies 

tweet tweet tweet

A magical mirage lives inside my head 

A house so perfect not fashion led, 

A picket fence surrounds the lawn, 

Where the sun rises at the crack of dawn 

Puppies leap and the chickens cluck, 

Butterflies flutter and run amock to the rap 

cluck cluck cluck.

A magical mirage lives inside my head 

A comforting ,soft, protective, huge bed, 

Velvets and silks adorn our room, 

Love and serenity the only things that loom

Where you and I lovingly embrace, 

Under a mystical moon as we lie face to face, 

Hearts together in sync beating, 

boom boom boom 

This magical mystery tour you have taken 

Is in my head don't be mistaken, 

For if there was a heaven on earth,

For me to live there, would be my rebirth,

And if this wish was ever granted, 

 This is what would be forever chanted 

I should be so lucky, 

lucky, lucky, lucky . 

Submitted to :  IN TANDEM where art and pictures are used as the prompts check it out for more interpretations of this piece of Art 

Dreams For Sale

Dreams for Sale 

If dreams were sold, 

What stories would be told ? 

A bedraggled street urchin 

Dining at the Ritz for Luncheon?

If dreams were sold, 

What transgressions could unfold ?

A remedy to untruths and lies,

Even truth in politics made to apply !

If dreams could be sold 

What could we do with unlimited gold ?

Destroy our moral being, 

See all of humanity fleeing ! 

If dreams could be sold, 

What would happen to all the old ? 

Driven to maintain our looks and youth,

Or would indifference become our truth ? 

If I could buy a dream,

It would be to mend humanities seams,

Let all suffering and fighting cease, 

Bring about moral and spiritual peace. 

Dreams should be our reality 

When it comes to societies humanity. 

Freedom and peace should be a given!

Until this end we as a race should all be driven!  

Freedom, Peace and good health, 

Should not depend on monetary wealth

The whole mixture of mankind 

Should ensure this elixir is assigned 

To The World !

This photograph was taken by Amy Shepherd In Southville Bristol UK the artist though is unknown