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This is from a collection of poetry and poetic prose I have accumulated over 30+ years. It takes some time to enter and format and I will add to the presentation here as time permits.

Inhale The Sweet Breeze 

I inhale the sweet breeze that comes from thy mouth, 
I contemplate thy beauty every day.                  
It's my desire to hear thy lovely voice              
  like the north wind's whiff.                      
Love will rejuvenate my limbs.                       
Give me thy hands that hold thy soul,                   
I shall embrace and live by it.                      
Call me by name again, again, forever,               
  and never will it sound without response.
-- Anonymous
-- (Thought to be ancient Egyptian)(If you know better, please message me at jim@yojimbo.com)
-- Poetry Index

The True Measure Of Love

This is the true measure of love,
when we believe that we alone can love,
that no one could ever have loved so before us,
and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

-- Goethe
-- Poetry Index

Part To Meet Again

We only part to meet again
Tho mighty boundless waves may sever
Remembrance oft shall bring thee near
And I will with thee go forever
And oft at midnight's silent hour
When brilliant planets shall guide the ocean
Thy name shall rise to heaven's highest star
And mingle with my soul's devotion

-- Edgar Allen Poe
-- (lost verse, discovered in 1994)
-- Poetry Index