“Love's Long-Lasting Look for Today”

“Love's Long-Lasting Look for Today”

Slick covers say youthful looks

And sleek bodies are to be worshiped

In fleeting moments of

Sage less, ever-severing

Meeting of the sexes.

All are tempted to buy stock

In glossy, commercial fiction

Yielding no dividend,

No deposit, no return

Reality of dead ends.

Look around with eyes made

To see beyond what is seen

To find love springing up

From years of plowing, planting,

Harvesting the fruit from lives clinging to REALITY.

So many years are such a short time.

No time wasted on tomorrow

Or yesterday

When all you have is today—

Now-Time is time to lavish love.

Love’s beauty never fades,

For when it was first seen,

It was seen—Beautiful--

Ageless beauty,

Ever-present Loveliness.

“Friend and Companion,

Wealth untold is heaped

Upon this union when there is

None to lend or

To spend.”

Time is with these Dear Ones

For they have loved more

Today than Yesterday

And Todays always build

Better Tomorrows.

RED©2/27/1985

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

No recollection of non-existence.

Consciousness always present.

Even in sleep

The mental workings never cease.

Observation reveals that

Life has a beginning

And it has transition

In death.

Spirit, mind, and body

Work together to produce

Joys, thoughts, pleasures

Untold.

The triumvirate resists

Each other and

Sorrow, sin, and pain

Abound.

“Deep calls to deep…,”

“Fearfully and wonderfully

Are we made.”

A chasm needs filling.

The Creator, the God

Of the Universe,

Seeks out the

Human heart.

A marriage is celebrated.

A sabbath’s rest is proclaimed.

Redemption is accomplished.

The old gives way to the new.

Who am I?

In me I see a reflection

Of His glory,

A yearning to see Him fully.

A hope is placed within me.

A partnership is established.

In spite of needed refinements,

I am covered with eternal assurance.

Life is worth living!

Routines are the active ingredients.

Mountaintops are reflections

Of the finished product.

Who am I?

I am

Fearfully and

Wonderfully made!

RED©1983

Orchids

Orchids_*

Flowers, delicate, precious

Decorate and give pleasure.

Luxurious lavenders,

Exquisite beauty placed

For Sensuous view.

Orkhis, from the Greek

Rooted in meaning.

Fragile, sensitive, priceless to man.

Hidden in modesty

Witnessed by two.

RED ©1983

*written while recovering from orchitis

Married Love, a Treasure-Trove

Married Love, a Treasure-Trove

A husband’s love assured

In wedded Life having blossomed

And now bearing fruit.

Day by day, love

Stores up treasured memories.

Children stretching,

Perfecting love,

Learn to imitate love.

Year by year, growth

Measures memories.

Friendships deepening,

Burdens shared.

Goodbyes more frequent,

Yet, distance designs

Memories from fidelity to friends.

The Ancient of Ages breathes

Spiritual youth

With fulfilled promises

And memories of days before,

Now, and forevermore.

RED ©1984

True Friends

True Friends

Love at first sight,

A rare occurrence.

An acquaintance, a well-wisher

Drinks superficially

Of another’s reality.

Wait some years

But keep in touch

Not in memories

But in sharings

Of daily reality.

What is revealed

Is a remaining few,

Perhaps, only two.

With true friends

The treasure is reality.

RED ©1983

Two In One

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Two In One

Each leaves the past

To cleave to the Presence.

No pulling apart

And growth will be expected.

From two cells

Come one life.

A miracle indeed

Has happened.

How can this be

While two we still see?

Look beyond what you see

And come to know this Mystery.

RED ©1985

Good Friends

Good Friends

Tension is support not conflict.

Every permanent structure has it.

Stress is balanced not absorbed.

Simple machines proclaim its advantage.

Lovely bodies balanced in dance

Maintain tension for resolution.

Expressive stress pleasures the eyes

And cushions strained machines.

Old friends lean in love

Like arches to a keystone,

Tensing, as champions of vaulted permanence

Inclining spirits to seek new heights.

Thanksgiving comes in resolute phase

Soon to be greeted by its mirror image.

The pleasure for good friends

Is daily tension not number of years.

RED ©1985

Children

Children

Motion, energy, conflict, repose,

Imagination that breaks the set.

Eyes sparkling with anticipation,

Wisdom blossoming from honesty.

Muscles, intellect, spirit developing.

Creativity unschooled and unbridled.

Smiles that assure innocence.

Understanding revealing insight.

Infancy, youth, maturity, golden years.

Experience abandoned for frontiers.

Laughter etched in wrinkles.

Life in transition.

RED ©1983