Author: James Browning

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Beyond Mere Externals

Sweetheart…
When we’re not together, I’m good. My life is rich. But when you’re near, I’m more than good; my life is richer. So completely you have seized my attention. So soon you have taken up residence in my heart.

Author and American Christian pioneer Ellen G. White
two-hearts-graffiti-love-carol-leighTrue love is not a strong,
fiery, impetuous passion.
It is, on the contrary,
an element
calm and deep.
It looks beyond
mere externals,
and is attracted
by qualities alone.
It is wise
and discriminating,
and its devotion
is real and abiding.

Image:"Two Hearts Graffiti Love" by Carol Leigh
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Beautifully Imperfect

My Darling…
In your imperfections, I see beauty. In your scars, I see a strength to overcome. In your insecurity, I see wounds that are healing. In your hands, I see tenderness. In your face, I see love.

American actor, director, and writer Emilio Estevez
imperfectWe
are
all
wonderful,
beautiful
wrecks.
That’s
what
connects
us–
that
we’re
all
broken,
all
beautifully
imperfect.

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Like a Mirror

Sweetheart…
When I am around you it feels as though I have known you before. I sense you are much like me. Like smooth water you reflect stylized images that are so familiar, yet more easily seen outside me.

American Writer of Humor, Literature and Fiction, Jarod Kintz
75ee553543329bc6a181c7a2899961daI
watch
you like
a mirror,
because
I
see
in you
what
I
see in
myself.

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Can’t Be Stolen

My Darling…
Whatever becomes of us on the path ahead, know you have touched my soul with your aliveness, my mind with your intelligence and my heart with every embrace. Never will come a time I do not gratefully hold dear what I know is precious.

By a writer Unknown/Anonymous
man writing a contractIf someone
really
loves you,
no matter
how many
other people
they meet,
their feelings
for you
wouldn’t change.
A real lover
can’t be stolen.

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Transformed and Enchanted

Sweetheart…
I never imagined I’d feel the sweetness of a boyhood first kiss a second time. You have taught me that magic of long ago was never lost. It was within waiting for your arrival.

German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Karl Hesse
6d9a5c601b7b0a8025f74ef6e2bc4380At the first kiss
I felt something
melt inside me
that hurt in
an exquisite way.
All my longings,
all my dreams
and sweet anguish,
All the secrets
that slept deep
within me came awake,
Everything was
transformed and
enchanted,
Everything made sense.

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Soaking Joy

Sweetheart…
As the rain begins to fall tonight I am comforted knowing you hear the same thunder I do. Listening to the raindrops fall makes me feel closer to you. I seem to find you these days in just about everything of beauty.

Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho de Souza
rain-on-window-medium_2077251280Love
like
rain,
can
nourish
from
above,
drenching
couples
with
a
soaking
joy.

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Before It Had Scars

Dear Lady…
When I think of you my heart feels like when it was young before the scarring of heartbreak. I am blessed by your presence there. So easily you glided past my habitual walls and have taken up emotional residence within me.

Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer Khalil Gibran
broken-love-svetlana-sewellLove has
no other
desire but
to fulfill
itself…
To melt
and be
like a
running
brook that
sings its
melody
to the night.

 

Image: Broken Love Photograph by Svetlana Sewell

 

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Unfold In Reality

My Dear…
You have settled into my near constant thoughts, yet we hardly know each other. There is a familiarity about you that whispers I have known you before. Maybe it’s only a dream trying to unfold in reality.

Author, poet and philosopher C. JoyBell C.
couple-talking-conversation-roxanna-salceda-bwFor some
people,
“the point
of no return”
begins at
the very
moment
their souls
become aware
of each others’
existence.

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Please Don’t

My Love…
There is no controlling it; no denying it; no running from it. My heart beats in my chest, but is no longer mine. You are the mysterious thief who stole what I willingly gave.

From the song “Bleeding Out” by Wynter Gordon
pb-110104-partial-solar-eclipse-05-eg.photoblog900… please
don’t
set me
free
‘Cause
the only
thing
I’m afraid
of is
you not
loving me…

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Through Whatever Comes

Sweetheart…
In our most difficult moments, I never doubt what I feel for you. It never wavers or becomes weak. Always and forever, through whatever comes, I will love you.

Mumbai-based poet and freelance write Sanober Khan
true-love-tracy-maleIn
a
world
full
of
temporary
things
you
are
a
perpetual
feeling.