HEART REMINDS POEMS WHERE THE HEART NEVER FORGETS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Song of Solomon

The Masters

A Dream within a Dream

First Poem 2009

The Heart Never Forgets

Living Life Poems

The Preacher

"POETRY IS THE ONE PLACE

WHERE PEOPLE CAN SPEAK

THEIR ORIGINAL HUMAN MIND.

IT IS THE OUTLET FOR PEOPLE

TO SAY IN PUBLIC WHAT IS KNOWN

IN PRIVATE."

ALLEN GINSBERG

This collection is

dedicated to Jesus Christ, my Lord and savior.

INTRODUCTION

I wrote my first poem in 2009 at the age of 66. I had never written a poem before. Now over 275 poems later, I’m still writing (Go figure!) My motivation? I believe as you read each poem (especially #’s 5 and 22) you will get a sense of why I wrote each poem and an insight into my character (#181) I write how I feel about certain issues and forthcoming about my beliefs. You must judge for yourself your own feelings. And not the feelings of others. I hope you enjoy each poem.

Many poems I still cannot believe I wrote. Others I sometimes questioned, but you can be the judge of that. I guess I am my own worst critic. These poems are not formal. I write like I speak. All my poems are listed on heartremindspoems.com

"At the touch of love

Everyone becomes a poet"

Plato

The Day is Done

"Read from some humbler poet,

Where songs gushed from the heart,

As showers from the clouds of summer.

Or tears from the eyelids start"

...

"Then read from the treasured volume

The poem of thy choice

And lend to the rhyme of the poet

The beauty of thy voice"

Longfellow

1807-1882

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SONG OF SOLOMON

"Place me like a seal over your heart,

Like a seal on your arm;

For love is a strong as death,

Its jealousy unyielding as the grave.

It burns like a blazing fire,

Like a mighty flame,

Many waters cannot quench love;

Rivers cannot wash it away.

If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love,

It would be utterly scorned."

Song of Solomon (8:6/7 NIV)

THE MASTERS

Love’s Philosophy

"The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the ocean.

The winds of heaven mix forever

With sweet emotion.

Nothing in the world is single,

All things by a law divide.

In one spirit meet and mingle

Why not I with thine?"

"See the mountains kiss high heaven

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven,

If it disdained its brother:

And the sunlight clasps the earth,

And the moonbeams kiss the sea,

What is all this sweet work worth,

If thou kiss not me?"

-Percy B. Shelly (1792-1822)

"We look before and after,

And pine for what is not:

Our sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught:

Our sweetest songs are those

That tell of saddest thought."

PERCY BESSHEY SHELLEY

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

"Take this kiss upon the brow

And, in parting from you now

Thus much let me avow

You are not wrong, who deem.

That my days have been a dream

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night or in a day

In a vision or in none

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream"

Edgar Allan Poem

March 31, 1849

THE BEGINNING

FIRST POEM 2009 I CAN’T

HELP REMEMBERING YOU

Memories fade and are soon forgotten

Childhood games are all for naught

Kick the can,

Hide and seek,

Flashlight tag,

Childhood memories held so dear

Simply vanish over the years

Yet still,

I can’t help remembering you

Friends a lot I used to know

No longer are heard the words Hello

I search but they are never found

Not a trace, not a sound.

Baseball: second base

Dances: canteen Friday nites

Rock & roll: lower that sound!

Relationships; Girls! Girls! Girls!

Where has it all gone?

I search for a clue

Yet still

I can’t help remembering you

Discretions of youth, chances taken

Showing no fear until reality wakens

Gypsy girls with olive eyes: $5 a reading

Money no object

Bluebird Dance Hall: girls in a row, asking for a chance

10 cents a dance

Trips to the city, girls looking pretty

Meet on the corner, walk upstairs

Names are forgotten, faces won’t do

Yet still

I can’t help remembering you.

Responsibilities of manhood, a challenge to meet

Left me in a fog I would not repeat

Raising a family: coaching, band aids, Disneyland, prayers,

One go round is all God gives

Yet still

I can’t help remembering you

Now that age has finally caught me

And memories survive only from day to day

The few I cherish I wish to save

Taking them with me to the grave

Yet still

I can’t help remembering you.

Epilogue

Maybe it’s because you’ve tied

A string around my heart?

THE HEART NEVER FORGETS

"Do not arouse or awakes

Love

Until it so desires"

Song of Solomon (NIV 3:5b)

LOVE

LASTS ONLY

FROM THE FIRST

HELLO

TO THE LAST

GOOD-BYE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

000 - The Heart Never Forgets

001 - The Only One Who Matters

003 - Dedicated To ______

006 - The Second Time Around

008 - Moments

009 - Lost Love

013 - I Was Her Hero

014 - How Do You Hold Back a Tear?

015 - It Never Crossed My Mind

016 - It’s Always You

017 - First Love Never Comes Twice

019 - I Don’t Know Why

021 - A fool’s Love

022 - I Wish It Would Go Away

024 - The Quest

025 - Another Place, Another Time

026 - What is Love?

027 - Falling in Love

028 - Moment To Moment

030 - A Tale of Two Lovers

031 - Something Changed in Me

032 - A Short Note to _________ (A Love Story)

033 - If Only

034 - Something Happens to You

035 - I Am (A Man’s Lament)

036 - You Forgot to Remember (A Woman’s lament)

043 - Eternal Love

040 - Maybe You’ll Be There

046 - First Love (It Never Hurts a Little Bit)

047 - This Heart of Mine

048 - A Love Never

051 - Let’s Wash Away the Past

052 - Let Me Take You Back

056 - Just You (A Song)

057 - Why?

059 - A Valentine Gift (To A Special One)

060 - Darkness (My Closest Friend)

061 - The Pieces of My Life

063 - Letting Go

065 - A letter to __________

066 - Yesterday’s Love

067 - Everybody Loses. Nobody Wins.

068 - Her September Years

069 - Seasons Come. Seasons Go.

072 - My Magic Wand

076 - I Don’t Need

080 - A Little White Chapel (Remembering Willow Valley Resort PA)

083 - A Perfect Memory

084 - How do you?

087 - Where Do You Find Love?

089 - I’ll See You Again

091-Time Lies

092 - Do you Really find love?

095 - I Saw a Memory

096 - Last Look

097 - A Nursery Rhyme

098 - Loving Two

103 - Life Still Goes On

105 - The One Meant for Me (Que Sera Sera)

108 - Today’s Tomorrow

109 - Those Tender Years

113 - My Fairy Tale

115 - Love Remembered

116 - Love and Marriage

117- Everything Happens Again

119 - You

120 - Summer of ‘64

124 - What Matters?

128 - A Lullaby of Song

131 - A Tiny Tear

138 - I Don’t Know What to Do (A Blues Song)

143 - Tokens

144 - A White Gardenia

145 - Close Your Eyes

147 - Your Belief in Love

152 - A Silent Interlude

153 - Living in Your Shadow

157 - How Do You...?

159 - Mortal Love

170 - When the heart says No

171 - The Love of My Youth

173 - Love’s photo

179 - It is You (Eras Tu)

182 - A Lover’s Lament

184 - Love’s Five Senses

189 - What is There to Say?

190 - A Lover’s Lasting Countdown

191 - A lover’s Limericks

192 - Second love

193 - Missing You

195 - Can’t We Start Over Again (Dedicated to —)

196 - Just a Boy

204 - Yesterday’s Song

207 - Will You Kiss Me...

208 - A Widow’s Love

210 - Controlling the Darkness

212 - Life’s Reality

218 - A Poet’s Secret Love Song?

225 - Love and Life

227 - The Masquerade

231 - Looking at You

245 - Twenty-three (23)

246 - Love’s Second Chance

247 - Love Gone Wrong

254 - As Time was Then

259 - It is Time to Say Good-by

261 - Every Star Tells a Silent Story

264 - Whistling in the dark

267 Call Me When You:

269 - The Love Jar

272 - No destiny No Fate No Luck No love

274 - Life is brief Love is Long

275 - Donna

276A - To Ana My P.T. Girl (Trilogy)

277B - SO Close and Yet So Far, My P.T. Girl

278C - Time Waits Only for those it waits for

279 - Age

280 - That certain smile...

000 - THE HEART NEVER FORGETS

Though the years spent

Though they came

Came and went

Though they never left

They still remain

Close to the heart

That feeling of nearness

That never goes away

That feeling that only touch can tell

The thoughts that remind the heart

That love was real

That love was tender

And leaves one

To remember always

That the heart reminds only

Those that love has chosen

001 - THE ONLY ONE WHO MATTERS

The