A love poem for you….or two

Fearless reader of the Update:

It is my hope that you wake every day either looking for poems to read & feel, or looking to share poems like that, or maybe to find the words, ideas & feelings to build poems of your own to share (like flowers from your garden, or cookies you just made, or zucchinis you have too many of….)

It is also my hope that you don’t mind if I share an occasional poem with you, especially on those days I love you so much but can’t find words to say without repeating myself (as if that’s a bad thing.)

And it is my hope you have too many… Love you, Ian xxox

So! Here are two from a current favorite of mine – the first is here (you gotta click it to listen to it. You’ll be glad you did!)

The other is here:

All the Whiskey in Heaven
by Charles Bernstein

Not for all the whiskey in heaven
Not for all the flies in Vermont
Not for all the tears in the basement
Not for a million trips to Mars

Not if you paid me in diamonds
Not if you paid me in pearls
Not if you gave me your pinky ring
Not if you gave me your curls

Not for all the fire in hell
Not for all the blue in the sky
Not for an empire of my own
Not even for peace of mind

No, never, I’ll never stop loving you
Not till my heart beats its last
And even then in my words and my songs
I will love you all over again

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