With Love, With Love Returned ( 1-9)

Continuous love letters in poetic form, poems written in collabration between two poets, a dear friend and I, seperated by distance. Hope you enjoy.

WITH LOVE… (1)

I am in a choice of sweet company
That the sense is in perfumed browse
This garden, this flora’s symphony
Music’s earth, this dear land of ours

And are you the flower’s compliment
Rose-kissed blossom, a darling’s bloom
No Sun-risen gem is more heaven sent
You, dearest love, who conducts the tune

My eyes are awake to your loved grace
To a wild of passion, to natural appeal
Does not each pleasing bud await in place
To bow in fine tune to your dear reveal

And I walk within this garden’s treasure
This sense of you, who delights the grove
Queen’s look, to a world are you treasure
And to this royalty does the kneel approve

No gardener’s hand may perfect the make
Or prize a loved rose which hails a heart
So am I taken, in a fierce emotion’s take
That I stand in your smile till time depart

WITH LOVE, RETURNED... (1)

Immersed in warmth of sunlit rays
Emit fragrance, let your passion seek
Chosen bloom, springtime bouquet
Drawn into subtle gaze, let love speak

Strong hands of lover's touch ever soft
Exhale. let me feel the breath of you
Come let love whisper in sky aloft
Upon petals like mist of morning dew

Garden treasure hides in plain site
Seek me now, such pleasure awaits
Within moist palms feel my delight
Waves of passions body fluctuates

Rose awaits as you walk alongside
Time and distance allow love to grow
Sheer beauty of the petals un-denied
Pressed upon lips, my feelings flow

Stroll mid the garden with love to sow
Caressed rosebuds, feelings grew
Basking in love's sweet afterglow
Not a moment do I want without you


WITH LOVE… (2).

If, in sweet transcending, I am the air
Then would I be no harsh storm’s gale
Which strips the light from beauty’s flair
In savage blow, to noise a fearsome rail

Sooner, do I give a rose a softest smile
In Summer’s warmth, a sighing breeze
And, to love you to this generous style
A zephyr’s gift of, in adoration’s, please

Would I steal in on you in gentle bent
Not in wind, of thieves’ grasping hand
More, to breath your perfumes’ scent
To waft and glory a lay to love’s land

In faith, would I give to a cooling blow
More, a calm’s lazy take, of dear serenity
That you open to me, my rose, in show
Of appreciation’s kiss, to air of sanity

Let me be no March, a mad winds temper
For; my love of you is a sigh’s drifting
A scent of time, for an ever remember
To have a joy of sweet perfume’s lifting


WITH LOVE RETURNED... (2)

Hint of fragrance uplift upon soft breezes
Petals upswept to dance in azure blue
Feel long awaited caresses so pleases
Become the air I breath, to follow you

Ride currents aloft in red summer sky
On billowy white clouds let love embrace
Arms shelter from the tempest afar, I sigh
See look of love adorn, delight my face

Love race the wind, beyond rising moon pale
Encompass, then enter my awaiting heart
Drawn kisses pressed upon sunbeams trail
Together within the whirlwind let us depart

Delight in the scent, for I am the rose sweet
Come, in my offerings partake, be carefree
Meet sensual expectations mid summer's heat
Bliss take flight, winds of change ever gently

Never-ending journey wanders high above earth
Such a touch delves within, how I long for more
Sensations brought forth, emit such joy, mirth
Height of love discovered, two lover's explore


WITH LOVE… (3). HE

Should a tear be a sweetest eye-drop’s dew
Which pleasure’s the rose in comfort’s sighing
Would the fall of my tear-drops then accrue
A sea of emotion, my pain of love’s crying

If I be the rain, in blustery winter’s dark hail
Then you be the rainbow, for skies enthralling
To liven a sun, who, through bluing skies sail
Then I be an April, of joyous shower’s falling

Will I enchant you with a melodious pouring
A glorious song, a choral of pattering drips
No thunder’s anger, only songbirds adoring
As the Hummingbird drinks in nectarine sips

If I were the rain as company to your worth
A softening fall which may bathe your grace
Would I dry you in sunbeam’s fall to earth
That pleases the tint, the blush to your face

Drink deep of my nature in generous amount
These tears of laughter, of such happy pour
I cry you a river, more tears to love’s count
That you drink of my love for you evermore


WITH LOVE, RETURNED...(3) SHE

Let me soak up drops of warm April shower
Be tears drops soft, of my lover come to call
Washed over with emotion by love's power
Bathe within, refreshed feelings so enthrall

Fall upon skin so gentle, flow down upon
Coolness of rain excite beyond any measure
Pitter patter echo, caresses until the dawn
From the flower trickles beads of pleasure

From tiniest droplets, downpour emerges
Love grows mid wetness of shower in spring
Soon two desires mesh, longing emerges
Soak in beauty of what eve's shadows bring

Love birds coo, upon branch song birds sing
Feeling you in mist, thoughts fill my senses
Rhythmic heart speak, hear descending ping
As love true sashays in without pretenses

Seek to quench that which we most desire
Love wash over, feelings completely new
For it is only there our romance shall spire
Ebb, floe in sweetness as lovers often do


WITH LOVE ...(4) He

In Spring’s content were you proud born
That I watched you, as from bud to flower
A sweetest red rose, who bore no thorn
And tasted your scent in perfumed shower

You stood to inspection as natural wonder
So poets and minstrel’s paraded your place
And did philosopher’s give time to ponder
Over scented appeal, your wondrous grace

Have I watched from golden morn till night
From the red petals open, till closing bed
Sunset’s scarlet, till loved morning’s bright
To fill up my passion, on love’s comfort fed

Now comes a winter of coldest conclusion
And you bow, dear rose, tenderly bending
That songbirds cry tears in heart’s confusion
Fearing your leaving, cry loud in sad rending

So do I bend and, gathering you in my hands
I lift you to my heaven, to a tendering breast
You swell to a passion, that love understands
And live on forever and are evermore blessed


WITH LOVE, RETURNED...(4) She
All things have a season, beauty shall perish
Scent lingers on within caverns of the mind
To be held no more yet to adore and cherish
Mid sweet fragrace of the garden left behind

Upon my petals you danced upon morning dew
Drawn to love's essence, wind whispered aloft
Velvet crushed in the storm with petals askew
Picked gently by hands, rose delicate and soft

Press between leaves in bound book of romance
Rest forever between words written for love true
Scent of a woman inhaled, absorbed in trance
I shall forever remain within the heart of you

Do not dwell in sorrow, we journey near and far
Love be with you, upon your chest I shall lay
There with you always, no matter where you are
You must remember the joys in springtime day

Breathe in fragrant air, beauty felt yet unseen
Through whispy cloud above, so billowy white
Drift up high, say goodbye, to garden green
Time for the beauty of the rose to take flight


With Love… (5) He

There is no more constitution’s wonder
Than that which rises to a highest landing
This blessed peace gives mind lazed ponder
To gaze below, in glory of understanding

And in this manner, in awed inspiration
This valiant view of land’s decent spread
I sat and surveyed, no time’s aggravation
When the scent of a rose lifted my head

Glorious perfume, in dear wafting plume
Cuddled my mind and held me to desire
More melodious was this rose-scent tune
Than any soft voices of a heaven’s choir

My eyes to cloud’s drift, came conclusion
The rosy taste perfected a dear moulding
From the joy came soft-rounded illusion
Did I picture a dream, treasure unfolding

To my mind’s eye did I espy the rapture
Her face, that darling of a spiritual select
Such grace had she, in mind’s capture
From the scent, rose true love’s detect

With Love Returned...(5) She

I beckoned freely upon wind summer soft
Love injected swift, in breeze feather light
Inhaled fragrance, adrift searching aloft
Let me fill all senses, as love takes flight

In garden mid thorns, petals lay strewn
Once upon a time my beauty captivated
Love washed over, beneath pale moon
Fragrance arose, love became elevated

Mid the scent of a woman I now become
One of body, warm flesh of touch tender
Come now awaken, to emotions succumb
Myself I give to love's complete surrender

Search for dreams end, wonders start anew
Bring forth the desires deep within hearts
With my heart in hand, I now come to you
From this moment on, new journey starts

In hush of rushed wind, a whispered call
Words echoed, soon to become my fate
Only stars to follow, with no crystal ball
Love to guide the way to where you await



With Love… (6) He

What mind have I, in wonder’s grave time
That, should I stand in moment’s grace, to close
Reason’s logic, from thought’s mental climb
Is a time of losing me to the scent of a rose

In all-day’s working and time of relaxation
Is there this constant imagined perfume’s play
I am bedevilled with the rose-tint, a visitation
To know the pleasured smell of heaven’s sway

Times, in a quiet deeper darkness of the night
Does the scent over-power the darkened room
I see a spirit’s form, hid, behind a misting light
And I know the darling rose beguiles the gloom

Do I fancy a smile, a coating’s joy to dear face
The spirited figure of a woman’s moving pale
Do I fear this apparition’s beauty, this embrace
This loved feeling, rosy scent, behind the veil

Now, comes a morn’s awake, light breaking
Is my mind in clear sight of thought’s scheme
Though I recall a scent of rose, the awaking
Of ‘Her’, rose-spirit, saintly-scented dream


With Love Returned… (6) She

Shimmer within pale moonlight, spirit adrift
Sweetness of beauty, in ebony sky wander
Drawn deep into dream, spirit rise, uplift
To feel love never more sweet nor fonder

Exotic, the fragrance of flower ever sweet
Though petals now lay upon garden ground
Spirit take flight, to whom made love replete
Into slumbering dream, with nary a sound

Within purple haze, reach but can not touch
Yet you feel, you long, scent of the bloom
The petal's softness you desire so much
Soon the scent of a woman fills the room

Love's warmth upon bosom, head softly lay
Inhale, exhale within dream you soon awake
Fragrance entices senses like garden bouquet
To touch in dreams, again in love we partake

To lay beside in softness, draw me close
Let me share this dream, with lips that smile
For the woman shall be one with the rose
Within dreams, on this night, I stay awhile


With Love… (7) He

Love is such a sleep’s rude awakening
So that dear love has reality in all adrift
Do I sleep with this dream or just taking
An escape from life’s hard, in easy shift

In sleep’s attendance does she haunt me
The rosy woman takes to a valued shape
First in hard cover, then in weak hesitancy
Soft eyes to smile below shadow’s cape

And; in awakes’ mood of sweet toleration
Do I see her, in a role of vanity’s approve
In misty shadows and highlights alteration
Is she sweet music to lusty needle’s groove

In daytime’s joy and dark nights feasting
Do I taste the art of love and adoration
She is there to a mind’s amorous eating
That I feed on this spiritual manifestation

So I wait, for a time of reality’s revealing
When she stands, cast to a body’s delicacy
That she lose a shadow’s mist, concealing
For the kiss of lips, love which pleases me


With Love, Returned (7) She

Like dust in darkness, spirit sparkle, aglow
Descending, gaze upon misty purple haze
Feeling your presence and longing below
Within love's dream, hands so gently raise

Want of you brings forth heavenly quest
Night journey's end, led me straight to you
Light cast down upon, from moonlight crest
Searching in skies of ebony and skies of blue

Press lips, startle senses, mid slumber's bliss
Fragrance of a woman, like roses, mesmerize
Emotions once concealed, flow with one kiss
Whispered love, within dreams, slowly rise

My breath you draw from me, heart beats fast
If only for this fleeting moment, nothing more
I shall cherish this kiss, should it be my last
No other love, could this captured heart adore

My love do not awaken, keep away the dawn
Let me stay with you, nestled in this splendor
Should you leave me when moonlight is gone
Remember our kiss, soft as rose petals, tender


With Love… (8). He

Should I, in my life, commit a dubious crime
Then would I feel guilt-complex distribution
I would have clear vision of a punishing slime
I would reason the source the fire’s retribution

And so with this love, in its punishing way
That perfume drifts and I glimpse my dear rose
That she comes in times of illusion’s display
Then drifts away, so the hurting heart grows

Love is not shadows of torment, dark schemes
It is vibrancy, stark reality to an adoring eye
Will she surrender her veil and distorted dreams
And come to a knowing, which comforts the eye

There are times, my rose, I have you in grasp
When you smile to enchant love’s estimation
Ands your beauty gives the draw to my gasp
That this sweet love gives a joy to my adoration

Now, come to me in a constant of true light
Become the dear lady of flesh from the flower
Give me an always time to life’s definite sight
That I love you for till an end, an eternal hour

With Love, Returned (8) She

With want of more kiss, linger close in night
Between dream and reality, one moment rest
End of my journey, love's treasure within sight
Be one in flesh with you love, my only request

Search for your dream, loneliness forever gone
Love newly found, in heavenly universe so wide
No longer a dream, love awakens with the dawn
Till end of time, lay with happiness here beside

Morn's mist appears, in nakedness before I stand
Drawn within arms, a tender touch upon my face
Sun rises upon two lovers, ever gently held hand
Softness of a rose petal felt on lips, we embrace

Love long awaited, descended upon from aloft
Bloom of the rose opens gently in morning light
The scent of woman, with skin rose petal soft
Brings to life all your dreams of love's delight

Hold you close, within love's new found treasure
Bodies given in body, heart and soul for eternity
Each fills desires, dreams become our pleasure
Love partaken, emotions wash over, you and me


With Love… (9).

What sweet courage is given to a fearful eye
That you appear in faultless form, to my sight
Such adored nature is comfort to love’s sigh
You meet me in solid’s approve, dear delight

Fond dreams are a rescue, one in hope’s urge
To see illusion’s gift and know forms shaping
But reality has true emotion’s current surge
So impressive, than the cast of veil’s draping

You, who gave sweet mind the rosy scenting
Sleepless nights of awareness, of you so near
Now; is love such a clement judge, relenting
To bring you to me in love, rose darling-dear

Come, Rose… Cling you to my beating heart
Let me stroke the hair, that lose petals in fall
From a budding glory, did love have its start
To end with glorious join; in love, have it all

I will love, till the scent of you has cooling
Till the tattoo of the rose dims from my sight
Until the laughter of dear love loses fooling
For all time, my rosy day, my dear rosy night


With Love, Returned (9)

No color has true love but the deepest of red
For it pierces the heart mid nightly dreams
Awakens passion, thoughts swirling in head
Tumbles slowly past stars, upon moonbeams

Visions and dreams came full circle this night
Sealed was our fate, when petals first fell
Now lips pressed softly, our love takes flight
Fragrant scent of woman, your senses swell

Warm breath upon lips, fingers of soft touch
Here to stay for all time, red rose so dear
Never to part, from a man I love so much
Deepest darkness, morning sun, life we share

Now I feel upon my soft skin, see with my eyes
With you, I have come to you to stay forever
Destiny complete, no more sunrise goodbyes
Cling to your heart, to leave your arms, never

From rosebud fondled, to petals softly pressed
The flower you made bloom with kiss sweet
My journey ends here, my heavenly love's quest
Flesh to flesh, man to woman, love complete