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THE POETIC HEART

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP POEMS
SONG LYRICS AND QUOTES

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Today's Love Quote
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The Good Morrow by John Donne

“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do the faces rest,
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp North, without descending West?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”

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"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and ( c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking  for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." - Tom Robbins
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"The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul
within two bodies" -- Sri Aurobindo
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My Tangled Hair

My tangled hair
I shall not cut,
Your hand, my dearest,
Touched it as a pillow.
Anonymous -  Translated from Japanese


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"This is my beloved and this is my friend." - Song of Solomon
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We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, 
adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, 
choosing disasters, triumphs, challenges, impossible odds, 
testing ourselves over and again, 
learning love and love and LOVE!
- Richard Bach excerpt "The Bridge Across Forever"
 
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From Song to Celia by Ben Jonson
Drink to me only
With thine eyes,
And I will pledge
With mine;
Or leave a kiss but
In the cup
And I’ll not look
For wine. 
Today's Love Poem

Love Poems
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"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.
And people still wonder why some are afraid
when told they are loved!"
- Anonymous



A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
by  Edgar Allan Poe
                A Dream within a Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem

             Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! Yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep-wile I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?



ONE BRIGHT PEARL
I seek you in the crowded streets,
Amid the turmoil of the day,
The secrecy of night,
where feet
Of millions trample on the ways
        You went—and where I
follow too,
       With one bright Pearl I
bear for you.

The precious jewel that I possess,
I would that somehow I could show
Your eyes; for I must
needs confess,
My heart begins to overflow
             When faithless doubt
demands I prove
             The one bright Pearl I
bear for you.

Or shall I say that in its orb
We sink forever, in the midst
Of nowhere, that all wealth
is stored,
And poverty, in the abyss
         Of all that we have
wandered through?
          This one bright Pearl I
bear for you.

Forsake me you cannot, no
more
Than from your breast
could I, estranged,
Be sundered. Our one
ocean roars
Its epic of incessant
change--
        Returns upon itself, yet
broods
         The one bright Pearl I
bear for you.

The Logos in the Scriptures taught
That Man was not to live
alone;
And so I seek you as I ought:
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone.
        See with these eyes,
that you may view
         The one bright Pearl I
bear for you.

Lee Evans © 2015


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Under the magnetism
of friendship
the modest man
becomes bold,
the shy, confident.
- William M. Thackerary

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.
- Joseph Addison

First Love  by John Clare
I ne’er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale.
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.

And then my blood rushed to my face
And took my eyesight quite away,
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday.
I could not see a single ting,
Words from my eyes did start-They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.

Are flowers the winter’s choice?
Is love’s bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice,
Not love’s appeals to know.
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more.
Untitled by Selma Price ©2011
In the meantime and in between time,
PLAY oh wondrous Knight of the night.
Go rescue those fickle, supercilious, irascible 
drama queen damsels! 
And when you are done with playing
Come riding oh glorious Knight 
on your noble white horse,
And I will love thee too,
When you come;
With your soul in your fingertips.
Take off your foot and knee caps,
Your proudly polished breastplate,
Your head of steel and metal scrotum.
Take leave from your fine, white horse and 
enter noble Knight,
on 
bended knees.

Tread lightly on my petalled floor
STOP!
And smell the perfume in the air.
Come
The bath awaits
to soften wounds too long encountered,
and ease the pain of memories bitter-sweet
in muscles lodged.
Be here, be present my Lord,
not to loose again
what this time you may gain. 


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