Lift your heart To the wind song of my love, December’s preview of spring, That blows upon your tear-stained cheeks. Beneath this hallowed frozen ground Still lives a life, still beats a heart. In the words I write and the thoughts I dream Of the beauty I know that lurks within With sunshine bathed all…
Fine wine and sunlight
Ah but to steal a genuine moment And immerse in it With your succulent mixture of fine wine and daring apparition of sunlight After dark when the city sleeps And our love comes alive This is present and futuristic you And I love that it’s mine too
In exchange for a rose
I’ve got you under my watchful gaze Dear salacious culinarian Whose tender cake rises in the oven of my heart You’ve entered my garden sweetly My heart awakens when you come Held under scrutiny by love’s caressing eye Bring your desserts In exchange for a rose
The romantic dance of words
The Romantic Dance of Words The sonnets string together as pearls The words create a melody Each line a touch upon her lips Each stanza a kiss They sway in this slow dance, the poet and his muse From the heart flows forth the words Into her lungs, she inhales their sweetness Slowly she lets…
For every intricacy
The heart is intricately complex Who can know it But gentle are the waves of green That sway in the fields at harvest And loving is my eye That watches and cares Over every stalk. So it is with the heart, For I care For every intricacy Of yours.
Love from the heart
Love from the heart Love cannot be forced or cajoled The use of skulduggery or trickery to win the heart Never results in returned love of the soul We abuse, we lose; But like the dew on the lawn That gathers at dawn Under a rising sun’s mischievous grin If we love from the heart,…
Infinite love
Infinite love Gaze in the distance Among clouds of cotton candy To a love where sweetness Grows ever sweeter Where like the blush of your cheeks Perennial asters bloom ever lovelier And to our chrono sensitive hearts Time is still time, Finite But to hearts in love Darling, Infinite
The hope even in goodbyes
The hope even in goodbyes A cool night of gentle breezes teases your hair And you fix your hair shyly And you stare back into my eyes And tears are held back Knowing I must go I hold you There on Platform 2 Steam from the train sprays under the wheelset Like a tired sigh…
The morning everything changed
The Morning Everything Changed An Easter poem by Dave A. Gardener And suddenly In one glorious morn A stone was rolled away Ice yielded to warmth Winter to spring Love’s freedom ring Death flipped to life And everything That is everything Changed Forever. Awakened in the morning, Everything brand new; It was love that won…
Once and only once
Once and only once – lyrics by Vic Damone Once and only once I’ll walk through this troubled world So if a good deed I may do Some tearful face bring laughter to I will be contented then For I’ll not walk this way again Once and only once I’ll live with my fellow man…
The Romantic Gardener 