Oh where are you
My precious love
That I may draw
Strength from
Your heart
That I might
Feel your power
And tuck me safely
Under your arm
And shelter me
From the evil
In the world
Where are you
My precious love
Can’t you see
It in my eyes
Can’t you hear
My heart beating
Here, look in
My direction
For I am
Waiting for you
Terry Shepherd
05/18/2013
A heart being used as a symbol of love.
I feel homesick for you
I don’t know your name
Or where you reside
I can see your smile
And the twinkle
In your eyes
I feel your gentle
Touch caress
My cheeks
Your lips
Cause the
Hairs on my
Arms to rise
Your soul
Penetrates my
Very core
And when I see
You walking
Towards me
My skin sheds
And melts into
Pooling ripples
Of love
I am homesick
For love a soft
Cushion
For me to fall
Gently and you
Take me in your
Arms and my
World is safe.
Terry Shepherd
05/17/2013
http://dailypost.wordpress.com, Dp, Daily Post
Over the weekend, we explored different ways to love. Today, tell us about the most unconventional love in your life.
Photographers, share a photo that says unconventional.
In my generation it was common to grow up and plan on getting married and having some kids. Moms worked some but for the most part they still worked more inside the home instead of outside for someone else.
The conventional love. The one everyone followed suit on. Even people who weren’t crazy about being married, got married because it was the right thing to do. Not uncommon in some countries but very unlikely here where I live was the arranged marriage.
You had your spouse chosen for you. A lot of figuring and planning went into those marriages. Many times they didn’t love each other, let alone know enough to be saying I do. Can you imagine what that was like letting someone bed you at night and you had no deep feelings for them. I can imagine that they grew to love each other, or they suffered their own hell.
Love and marriage has advanced so much today. People can love each other for a one night stand. Even say the words without feeling them for the passion of a fleeting moment. Some are infatuated with thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. They will fantasize about another married person, thinking if I was only married to them.
Others waste so much of their life by living a dream, hoping that one day that person will be come available, only to end up an old spinster, all alone.
I did the common thing. I married fresh out of high school. It lasted for several years and a lot of the years were good. But we are thrown rocks and feelings change. We become more mature and our needs and desires change.
Sometimes this leads to divorce or cheating for some. Others suffer through the relationship for the sake of the children.
I ended up being divorced, and married a second time, which was even a bigger mistake on my part. Now I define love totally different from when I was in my twenties.
I have room for many types of love. I love my kids. I love watching the birds and feeding the squirrels. I love my brother. I love caring for others. I love knowing that I made someone’s day special.
I would love to see a man come driving through in his car and pick me up. I have given up on the knight and shining armor on a white horse. That is fairy tale to me now a days. Now I think I can love someone for who they are. What they bring to my life, how I add to theirs. Sharing some laughs and tears a good cooked meal or movie; is something I can love unconventionally.
I have learned I don’t have to follow that yellow brick road. I can be myself and learn to let my feelings lead me. Accepting ourselves for who we are is a major thing to do today. Not feeling like I have to be like everyone else is a big thing that took me years to learn.
Can I learn to love unconventionally? Yes, I think I can, and I have in many ways
My heart is broken
By words you say
What is important to me
Slides by your day
You came from my breath
And I have loved you always
But you show that I matter not
To you in any way
Part of me has just now died
You have stripped my feelings
And you have taken my pride
Terrible thoughts are entering my head
I wonder why I keep trying more
When it is so easy for you
To walk a way and ignore
Mother’s Day is almost here
And you have torn it all apart
My heart is hurting oh so bad
I just want to walk a way and depart.
Terry Shepherd
05/11/2013
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/, DP, Daily Prompt
We each have many types of love relationships — parents,
children, spouses, friends. And they’re not always with people; you may
love an animal, or a place. Is there a single idea or definition that
runs through all the varieties of “love”?
Love is a feeling
A flutter
A pitter patter
That you feel
Deep inside
Your heart
And soul
Love makes
You smile
Your tears fall
Your heart melts
Love means
Never wanting
To part, be
Separated
From the idea
Of what draws
You close to
The name
When you hear it
Or touch it
When you wrap
Your arms around it
This is love
That you never
Want to disappear
Terry Shepherd
05/11/2013
You didn’t have to do it
You could have
Had it different
An easier life
Less stress
And tears
But you chose
Us over another way
And for this
I wish you
Happy Mother’s Day
Miss you Mom
Some day I
Shall see you
And Dad
In heaven.
Terry Shepherd
05/09/2013
Restless hearts
Yours there and
Mine here
Intertwined through
Feelings from
Unspoken words
Held fast by
Years of
Knowing each other
Your thoughts
Are mine
Any I am in
Your thoughts
Being apart
And yet very close
Holds this bond
Together forever
Til death comes
For one of us.
Terry Shepherd
05/06/2013
Can you take
The time to sit
Very still and
Search your heart
To see what you
Value most in
Your life
Or are you so
Busy that you
Follow the crowd
Letting the one
God made you
To be, to be lost
In the morning
Fog or maybe
Buried under
A stack of
Unsolved thoughts
Take time for
One day to sit
And ponder on
Who you are
And brings
Out the
Best in you
Terry Shepherd
05/04/2013
Do not suck
The life out of
My loins for
I will crumble
In front of your
Feet, tears
Scrambling to
Find a place to hide
My heart laying in
Pieces for the
eyes to see
Please don’t go
Stay near my side
Love me forever
Say you will never leave.
Terry Shepherd
04/30/2013
