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The Nurture of Loving

By David Alexander Resney

Copyright 2011 David A. Resney

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Edited by Amy L. Scott and David A. Resney

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Contents

Section 1: Introduction

To Whom
A Time of Truly Loving

Section 2: Inspiration

Your First April’s Snow
Does She Know?
Mostly
Would You?
Inspired
A Restless Mind to Wake

Section 3: Loving

A Secret
Flying High
Lie Still, Sleep Thy Soul
Remember
O
Never To Forget
Patiently I Stand, Quietly You Step
The Only One
Keeper of My Soul

Section 4: Loss

The Scariest Thing of All
Tis a Sad Thing
I Reach for You
I Wonder What You’d Do
The Pain I Cause
As She Fell

Section 5: Pain

Shadowed
I Would
An Empty Home
Someday

Section 6: Redemption

Untied Laces
What Lesson I Must Learn
Which Way
A Moment’s Vision
To Allow a Flame to Guide
For Inspiration



~~ Section 1: Introduction ~~



~ To Whom ~



This is all I’ve got
My lost and found
My found and lost to pull me from
the depths of despair
My words, my curse
My misdoings and foretellings
These I lift to the eyes and ears of those
to pass
My gifted curse
My love, pain, joy and sorrow
I bring forth to conscious mind
May I not be forgotten
May these things, whether meek or
strong, show the light of healing
Healing the lost losses of a foolish heart
Love me, as I love myself
Forgive me, for I am always and will
always be a child to the chaos of love
Love’s chaos has order…
Despair, indifference, pain and losing
All have an ordered chaotic scheme
I see it clearly
So these are my words
So I have written

~ DAR7~



~ A Time of Truly Loving ~



A time of knowing
Love
To all its appreciation and joy
Knowing this, you both create
the tie of forever
To always know, that there is
tomorrow….with him, with her
For this is truly loving
Heavenward, the smiles and praises
of your union are made
Both of you, together, symbolically hold
a fruitful cup, to bless
and give thanks
For now, and always
Your time to be loved has come

~ DAR7~



~~ Section 2: Inspiration ~~



~ Your First April’s Snow ~



How can I capture
your first April’s snow
in a passage that must end?
I dare not and should not
Not in any way that would realize its
end
Though, kneeling, eyes glowing
with open hands cupped, for the day I
fall with thee
Your downward drift glimmers to me
I pray
Never should there be a day
That you, my precious
Stop falling
For unmoved shall I remain
Until we two shall fall

~ DAR7~



~ Does She Know? ~



Could?
Could, she understand?
To understand, she could be the fate
The fate of this man
To be, just to simply be
The mountains
The temples
The steal that is forged
The edge of love that will topple the
world
Does she know?
Could there be, the calm of knowing
just what I am capable of?
When she wakes at night to pray does
she understand that I am there with
just that prayer?
Does she understand?
That all could be gained and that
all could be lost
Just to simply be
The night sky
The strength of meteors
The sight that awes, that could cause…
The very destruction…
Of the mountain that is myself
Could?
Could she understand, just to
understand?
The birth of what she can end
For her love guides
It shows the path
Her love is the sculptor
The forger
The answer to all
Could?
Could she understand?

~ Understanding how I love
Waiting to find a woman
To understand ~
~ DAR7~



~ Mostly ~



Mostly, I question
My sanity
The motive behind the dream
I see
So much
I want
So much
Though in retrospection
Desire simple pleasures
I feel a fool to the unexplainable self
that eludes the desire of woman
At best, I over complicate
Lost to variety
Loathing the common
Seeking the diversity in one
All…
To last forever
Too just simple be, everything to me

Simple
Beautiful
Daring
Lustful
Calm
Teasing
Devoting
Dainty
Sinful
Proper
Wise

~ DAR7~



~ Would You? ~



If I were
Old fashioned
In a romantic way
Would you laugh
And make fool of me
And then would I
Have to apologize?

Forgive me
For asking of this moment

Is there a time
You feel comfortable with
Me asking your name
Without the hustle of this place?

Please
Though I could ask now
I look forward to remembering
A proper meeting
of You and I

Perhaps
At the town square
Some Wednesday afternoon
To see one another
To tell one another
The name of whom to remember

I shall trouble you no more
For transgressing any boundary
There is no further intention
Just a moment if you would
But, perhaps I said too much

Thank you

~ DAR7~




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