Timeless Love

Timeless Love



Lured by the beckoning sands of the desert he went
Last week in home country as though heavens sent


Now standing in the lovely old heritage palace suite
His spirit felt at home as instincts told him to retreat


Ambivalent thoughts crisscrossed in his veins in a spree
In somnolent state he picked lock of armoire in odd glee


Removed royal dress and regal headgear to don on self eagerly
It was a perfect fit as though waiting since eons for him strangely


With natural grace he wore accompanying jewels with aplomb
Feeling as though he was finally home awakened from a tomb


Sounds of old folk melodies and a love lament wafted in the air
Involuntarily he ran out and disappeared amidst stupefied stares


As though a ghost was sighted, old palace guards shivered in fear
The prince had returned reincarnated to keep vow as foretold by seer


They ran to fetch the old doyen who was hanging to life by a thread
Sure her beloved would keep his word as promised on his deathbed


Same old love ballad finally rang out in the balmy soft desert air
Serenading with violin her beloved stood at the window with old flair


She snapped her life’s thread and wafted joyfully towards her lover
Embracing entwining- two lover’s souls that even time failed to severe


The ultimate valentine is one that is beholden to neither sun nor sand or time
Two loving souls are in reality only one, need neither reason nor rhyme!!!


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Come out of the circle of time / And into the circle of love.-RUMI



In true love the smallest distance is too great, and
the greatest distance can be bridged.
Hans Nouwens



True love stories never have endings.
Anonymous



True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself.
It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations:
it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac French, Novelist



The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you.
Through the wrinkles of time,
through the bowed frame of years,
the warm heart union of your eternal love.
Alfred Montapert




But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead;
From itself never turning.
Sir Walter Raliegh




Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
Seneca 4 B.C. � 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Shadows

Poem 1
shadow of my past

overcast
dark
gloomy
portending
doom

shaking off
erasing it
chasing away
not happening

lengthy
elongated

seated
shortened delightfully

sleeping
same size
very much
there


to banish
must self perish
first
dust to dust
to bust
yet it is still
carried forward
baggage of karma
crosses over
to settle account
finally
before
thinning
dissipating
erasing
going going gone!!
clean slate
to start all
over

another shadow
another gameplan
to beat the odds
life goes on
shadows
stay
put
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine -
and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
American, Poet


To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into
either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
Jeremy P. Johnson



How many people make themselves abstract to appear
profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are
the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist


Old sins cast long shadows.
English 20th Century Proverbs

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Poem 2
Shadows Stay Put

The Inseparables
Tangible and intangible

Joined at the hip,
Implacable Siamese twins

The body and its shadow
Life pursued by death

Betwixt yesterday n tomorrow
Present is ever moving shadow

Embarked on life’s journey
Only shadow stays put

Daring to be alone, fly solo
I try to cut my shadow loose,

I stamp on it, fight it, rail against it
Physically resist it, emotionally banish it

All goes to naught, doesn’t quit
Inexorably, shadow stays put

Sun begets shadow and to banish it
Need total darkness or total light

Rising sun and setting sun elongates shadows
Midday’s sun at its zenith, makes it disappear

Total light, is quite intolerable
Hence, shadow stays put

Lobotomy is drastic, life with
Shadows is the ultimate truth

Only shadows stay put

The body and its shadow
Life pursued by death

The Inseparables
Tangible and intangible

Only shadows stay put


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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour
upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing.
William Shakespeare

Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin