When Helen isn't busy raising children (that includes Chris, by the way) and working, she relaxes by writing poetry and creating artwork. So, sit back and enjoy yourself.....
so smooth and knowing a favorite poem beginning again Ending who-knows-where but begun from being together long ago. New truths, places, traits we may discover but let none deceive you -- old lovers are best!
Tiger wakes & stretches I hide close by make myself small and hidden He sees me now, yawns and Pounces (he'll eat me UP) paws and purrs.... (my chance) I wriggle free and dive (splash) cool and deep 'neath the sheets
I touch your wrist to feel your heart beat, yes then squeeze to find my pulsing is it me or us together
Beside me you eye the sky and trees and we are alone together Someone asks me..... I answer the way you would. Doing a chore I hate it doesn't exist thinking of you
Sitting among my unsorted papers or the dinner half-cooked You put your tongue in my mouth let the veggies burn! I'd like to put us off a little but, after all, the house isn't on fire ------ we are! so let's slip off to quench the flame
A good-bye kiss you said and it would have been but you put your tongue in my mouth and you kiss so totally there's just nowhere else compels me to attend like your touches And so I won't turn away or run you off like I intended but submit
Perhaps you won't find me going to bed tonight. You'll check the bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, den. The children, front yard, back and then the closets, behind doors bedroom again. a word I'll call, and, amazed, you'll find me 'neath the dinner table, with a low light, pillow dressed in a smile
I see you knight splendidly arrayed the poetry of loving care expressed in many-a-deed It is simply that I admire who you are and what you're doing Complete you are fire glowing, touch so light - hearts are lightened for knowing you Long ago, feelings scared me, til lonliness bade me melt the ice about my heart, or die Scarsely warmed, love claimed my heart for it's own exacting as "dowry" the defenses I'd known An apt pupil for emotions, heart opened quickly the other I'd been seeking unknowing, suddenly found From 2 rough histories, cautious, eyes opened, marriage not a given, but what we'd try to earn Between us came a bonding which never can be severed though we grow and change and aren't always known. We live in a heart-land of our own creating, accepting our differences delighting in our same Most would say love encloses, brings two souls together in a union none may alter, or else love never was While 'tis true that forever he and I continue we do not complete each others destiny Stripped of my defenses, my heart remains a little open, and I do not wish it wasn't so Perhaps you wonder if I'm happy, and I answer "Often" rather than "always" - to you I'd speak honestly The marriage is a process our strength in our doing, now warmth flowing bright, now serenely glow If a chill wind briefly passes 'twixt my mate and I, we fear not, nor even if desires are imperfectly met If I reach and find him not, though imperfect be my seeking, my heart lonely quivers & my eyes, still peering, see If another I perceive then beautiful, as you are, response so natural, purely felt I more than notice you Stirred by feelings that are part of me, I'l neither act on, nor imagine them away That my feelings could scare you, or compell you, or hurt you - fears bid me silence keep Yet, could you not gain a mirror, a mind touch in passing, to find yourself wiser and free? Thus I write of your affect, hoping not to hurt you, blindly trusting Truth to not abuse you I've learned love may be felt for more than one other - love's a journey taken an endless motion found About us shines Forever, endless souls to share and care for one and other, ever learning, growing, playing - as do we With my mate, an endless encounter, yet a portion of my heart reached by your brilliance, a little lightened, as by a sun
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