We are like balloons tied to the same stone.

Here's a simple piece that I wrote for a friend. We'd been talking about love and relationships, and what they are best described by. I mentioned the title phrase as my impression of her relationship with her husband and she loved it. She gave this one to him the next time they were out on a date and he really enjoyed it.


We are like two balloons tied to the same stone,
We bounce and play next to one another in the air,
Nuzzling close and winding around one another,
Sometimes we may go our separate ways for a time,
But we always come back to one another,
Happily reunited,
When children become part of our lives their balloons will join us,
Winding around us and growing,
Until such time as their need to grow calls them away,
And they float away to find their own place in the world,
Establish their own stones to be tied to
Share it with their love and continue the cycle anew,
While we grow old together in happy contentment


Best wishes to everyone. I'm now writing from Bratislava, Slovakia as I've taken up a new position teaching English here. It's a lovely city and great to be part of a new culture. Variety is, as they say, the spice of life ;-)

Pete

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Rachel and Alex - star-gazers who fell in love.

While I was living in the US, I was fortunate enough to make some friends who were very much into the amateur stargazing scene. They really kindled an interest in me in the stars, galaxies and amazing cosmological things that surround our world. I only had the chance to go out with Rachel and Alex a few times to actually stargaze but it was a fantastic experience.

Their wedding featured a number of readings and speeches from different family members and friends, but Alex worked with me to put together the following poem for Rachel.




A Hundred Facets

A hundred facets of fiery brilliance
effortless to your being

Like glittering stardust,
diamonds borne on solar winds
reflecting the light of creation
as they tumble through galaxies innumerable

With but a spark of the light inside you
a prismatic spray of a colour is born
a rolling wave washing over my eyes
bathing me in myriad images
each a reflection, a refraction
a moment of your innermost being

I am taken like driftwood
floating on the sea of your light
until the edge is found

The fall is willing.
Into the brilliant splendour
your heart of fire offers up



The galactic theme speaks for itself here I think, but there is a second focus. Both Rachel and Alex picked the same style of engagement ring featuring a Heart of Fire diamond, which has a hundred facets rather than the usual sixty six cut into other diamonds. Alex and I decided that it couldn't be left out and I think it tied the piece together nicely.


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An anniversary reading this time.

Hi everyone,

This is a brief departure from the usual custom wedding reading as it's an anniversary reading I put together for a friend's brother, Charles. This was a simple piece that he wanted to help celebrate their five year anniversary. Tradition holds it that the five year is the wood (or wooden) wedding anniversary and I understand that Charles got his wife Beth a carved wooden bowl as his gift. I haven't yet had a chance to see it but my friend, his brother, tells me it is very nice indeed.






Endlessly


Today I feel the joyous smile
And my soul feels light
For another year my heart has been yours
I give you my hands
I give you my words
I give you my kisses
All I that have
All that I am
Yours in deepest, endless love


Thanks for reading

Peter


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