Your Smile

I recently wrote a poem for my girlfriend while we were visiting her mother near the Hungarian border. It was inspired by, suprise, her smile and it came together in about ten minutes. She loves sunflowers, hence the picture.

Pete



Your Smile

I watch your face as you both speak.
In the musical stream that I love without understanding.
It babbles into my ears until the moment happens.
Your eyes, shining with your boundless spirit, catch mine and you smile.

It is a simple smile yet it reaches right through me.
The childlike joy and warmth of the evening before Christmas
Is in your smile and your face
And it brings the cosy heat of a Christmas log fire to me.

Knowing that such a smile was prompted by me touches my heart
And fuels the light of love that is kept there.
My mind changes the white of the kitchen light on your face
Into an orange glow as if of the fire we will sit by together in but a few weeks.

Each day that I spend with you brings new happiness
At being in love with and being loved by you.
You are a light in my life and keep a smile on my lips.

Szeretlek Edina

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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