feeling safe in love

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The Cynic Has Become The Converted

Love…
…is where almost all make mistakes before, if ever, getting it right. Some waste time in a bad relationships. Others marry the wrong person. Some learn what not to do by being mistreated… and so on. Such things are the threshing love does to make us ready.

From “Brushstrokes of a Gadfly” by E.A. Bucchianeri
_49118553_001929397-2Falling in love is very real,
but I used to shake my head
when people talked
about soul mates,
poor deluded individuals
grasping at some
supernatural ideal
not intended for mortals
but sounded pretty
in a poetry book.
Then, we met,
and everything changed,
the cynic has
become the converted,
the sceptic,
an ardent zealot.

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Restless Without Each Other

Love…
…causes me to sometimes lose track of where I end and you begin. That’s what happens when two souls were meant to be together. Once they touch love together the lovers will be forever restless with out each other. Even their loneliness for one another is full of life.

From “100 Love Sonnets” by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
4264611133_b9cfdd8566_zI love you without
knowing how, or when,
or from where.
I love you simply,
without problems
or pride: I love you
in this way
because
I do not know
any other way
of loving but this,
in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand
upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep
your eyes close.

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Juggling Water

Love…
… can’t be captured. Trying to hold on to it is like holding your breath; it only works for a short while. Imprisoning love is as impossible as juggling water.

Writer and philosopher James Browning
FIREPLACE02Love requires
an open-handed heart.
Grasping,
strangles love
and makes it flee.
Setting love free,
empowers it to stay.
Caged love
will escape at first chance.
Free to roam,
love will remain home,
warmed by the fire.

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Nothing More Valuable

Love…
… does not spoil or have an expiration date. It may allowed to fade away, be ill-attended or simply fall down forgotten, but it is never useless. Long or short, lasting or temporary, there is nothing more valuable than loving and being loved.

English novelist and poet Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
LIONS EDITWhatever
our
souls
are
made
of,
his
and
mine
are
the
same.

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Pure and Unspoiled

Love…
…can make a walk in the woods a tenderly secret adventure known only and for always to the two who shared it. Untold to anyone else, the rapture of that afternoon remains pure and unspoiled and will until after our last breaths are drawn.

Author of “Codependent No More”, Melody Beattie
boy-and-girl-couple-girl-kiss-love-Favim_com-115988I trust
so much in
the power
of the heart
and the soul;
I know
that the answer
to what
we need
to do next is in our
own hearts.
All we have to do
is listen…

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Sets Love Free

Love…
…means to give everything, lose one’s self in another and later unexpectedly find it all returned but made better. When there is no risk too great, nothing too valuable to give and your life itself would seem fair payment, the price will have been paid that sets one free to love.

 American actress, Katherine Hepburn
hand on the wheelLove
has
nothing
to do
with what
you are
expecting
to get,
only
with what
you are
expecting
to give,
which is
everything.

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In Your Blood Always

Love…
…comes once in a great while in a type rare like a precious jewel. If this kind of love infects you there is no cure. Never will you be able to shake it. You can run from it, deny it or even try to kill it and still it will be in your blood always.

Spoken by ‘Henri’ in the move “The Time Traveler’s Wife”
time_travelers_wife_intI met a girl.
And since I’ve
been with her,
I feel safe.
I haven’t felt
that way
for a long time.
Not since
I was a kid.

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Like a Newly Lighted Sun

Love…
…like gravity, pulls me toward you. I am helpless to withstand its force. What draws me in your direction is centered in my heart and glows brightly like a newly lighted sun.

Quote from unknown writer, Philippos Aristotelous
heart-on-fire-screensaver-main-viewWhen you feel cold
and warm at the same time,
when you read over the same line
for the tenth time,
when your heart and thoughts
somehow appear to rhyme,
and when a simple name
conquers your whole mind,
then you are
in deep trouble my friend…
you are in what they call, “love”.

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Earth Bound Angels

Love…
…arriving brings near sensory overload without a smidgen of advance warning. Senses are heightened; ordinary becomes extraordinary; simple becomes spectacular; common becomes astonishing and the whole experience feels heavenly.

Italian writer, actor and director Luciano de Crescenzo
couple18 second editWe are
each of us
angels with
only one
wing.
And
we can
only fly
embracing
each other.

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The Same Sky

Love…
…adores the rain. It magnifies the senses while sitting quietly absorbing the sights and sounds of a thunderstorm. Through distance the same sky that brings the rain connects the two of us underneath it.

“Slake – A Rainy Love Poem” by British poet Holly Anne
Couple in the rain, no_ 3 8 X 10 oil on paperIt’s pouring outside.
It brings your licked-lip
smile to mind. Kind rain
plopping heavy to skin:
dusty to shimmering
in a summer storm
instant. Flash floods.
Drenched our shirts,
swayed our spines.
Flip-flopped toes curled
thirsty in puddles, drops
bounced and burst.
You were my dewy drink.
Washed me clean inside
and out. Slaked every
ache. It’s pouring outside.
It’s beautiful – so are you,
still. Tonight I am parched.