A Silly Old Romantic...

[69forever]

All the Love of the Universe

Santana



Oo, oo, do...
New thoughts
Will purify my mind
and clean my body
New lives
will fall together like an endless story


All the love of the universe
will be shared by all that's living


And I don't really care
about tomorrow
Today
is all I really need to find the answers


I'll find the constant flow
of all the harmony


Everybody needs a helpin' hand
Everybody needs a helpin' hand


Here and waiting, with open palm Baby.

 

[69forever]

sunday meditation...for the spirit

Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet
____________________________________________________

Pleasure


Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure."

And he answered, saying:
Pleasure is a freedom song,
But it is not freedom.
It is the blossoming of your desires,
But it is not their fruit.

It is a depth calling unto a height,
But it is not the deep nor the high.
It is the caged taking wing,
But it is not space encompassed.

Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song.

And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.

Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and rebuked.
I would not judge nor rebuke them. I would have them seek.
For they shall find pleasure, but not her alone:
Seven are her sisters, and the least of them is more beautiful than pleasure.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness.
But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.
They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
Yet if it comforts them to regret, let them be comforted.

And there are among you those who are neither young to seek nor old to remember;
And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all pleasures, lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it.
But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.
And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands.

But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit?

Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars?
And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind?
Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff?

Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.
Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?
Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.

And your body is the harp of your soul,
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
And now you ask in your heart, "How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.


Baby I Love You!!!

 

[GoddessOfSouls]

Re: sunday meditation...for the spirit

Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet
____________________________________________________

Pleasure


Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure."

And he answered, saying:
Pleasure is a freedom song,
But it is not freedom.
It is the blossoming of your desires,
But it is not their fruit.

It is a depth calling unto a height,
But it is not the deep nor the high.
It is the caged taking wing,
But it is not space encompassed.

Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song.

And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.

Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and rebuked.
I would not judge nor rebuke them. I would have them seek.
For they shall find pleasure, but not her alone:
Seven are her sisters, and the least of them is more beautiful than pleasure.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness.
But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.
They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
Yet if it comforts them to regret, let them be comforted.

And there are among you those who are neither young to seek nor old to remember;
And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all pleasures, lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it.
But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.
And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands.

But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit?

Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars?
And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind?
Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff?

Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.
Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?
Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.

And your body is the harp of your soul,
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
And now you ask in your heart, "How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.


Baby I Love You!!!

Oh Baby that was beautiful! your going to make me cry this morning {{69}}

 

[69forever]

Re: Re: sunday meditation...for the spirit

Oh Baby that was beautiful! your going to make me cry this morning {{69}}

Kahlil was a treasure, a romantic of the ages. A Sage and wise spirit, a very old soul....*takes you in my arms and hugs you tight*

 

[TantaLiza]

Don't know how romantic this is but it spoke to me and I wanted to share!!

"Hold Fast Your Dreams"

Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And sheltered so,
May thrive and grow --
Where doubt and fear are not.
Oh, keep a place apart
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go.

Louise Driscoll



*** I'm headed to a family dinner at my grandparents (mom's side)... We never do holidays on time so we just get together when all can come!! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!! Hugs to all my friends!!! Later...

Blowin kisses to those who may want them!!

LizA

 

[GoddessOfSouls]

Don't know how romantic this is but it spoke to me and I wanted to share!!

"Hold Fast Your Dreams"

Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And sheltered so,
May thrive and grow --
Where doubt and fear are not.
Oh, keep a place apart
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go.

Louise Driscoll



*** I'm headed to a family dinner at my grandparents (mom's side)... We never do holidays on time so we just get together when all can come!! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!! Hugs to all my friends!!! Later...

Blowin kisses to those who may want them!!

LizA

{{{LizA}}} Thanks for sharing hun and may your day be a blessed one!

 

[69forever]

Don't know how romantic this is but it spoke to me and I wanted to share!!

"Hold Fast Your Dreams"

Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And sheltered so,
May thrive and grow --
Where doubt and fear are not.
Oh, keep a place apart
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go.

Louise Driscoll



*** I'm headed to a family dinner at my grandparents (mom's side)... We never do holidays on time so we just get together when all can come!! Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!! Hugs to all my friends!!! Later...

Blowin kisses to those who may want them!!

LizA

{{{{{{ LizA }}}}}} Thanks Hon, you have the best of days!!!! x 12

 

[69forever]

For the Longest Time

Billy Joel



Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time


Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest
I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time


Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for


Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time


I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for


I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Repeat Chorus to end..


Baby, for you

 

[tonitits]

For the Longest Time

Billy Joel



Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time


Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest
I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time


Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for


Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time


I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for


I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Repeat Chorus to end..


Baby, for you

great song 69! Good morning to all the Romantics hope you have a good Sunday!

 

[omahaman2]

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[GoddessOfSouls]

For the Longest Time

Billy Joel



Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time


Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest
I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time


Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for


Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time


I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for


I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Repeat Chorus to end..


Baby, for you

Awww Baby!! now you know iam already emotional today, BEHAVE!!

 

[Kurt_C]

RL has taken me away from my roamantic side for many days and this renaissance man needs to recharge his soul.


kurt

Good to see you again Godessofsoul.


I was content living in the seclusion of my mind.
There I was safe and hurt I would not find.
There were four walls surrounding my life.
That kept out the filth of human lice.
A distance between myself and love,
provided me with a safety glove.
Affection I could not provide.
Happiness to myself I denied.
One day in my dark secluded world,
A dim light seemed to swirl.
I reached out a trembling hand.
To see if it was a dream or man.
To my surprise it touched flesh, skin.
Shock registers as new emotions begin.
Love, fear, content, hunger and passion
my soul retreats and becomes ashen.
"War", my mind cries as I double the walls.
"Enemy", my heart screams," barricade the halls."
I was ready for a raging battle.
But inside, my heart and soul seemed to rattle.
I fought and kept up my shield
but my fate in this battle was sealed.
This battle I was to lose... yet win.
This is the original sin.
To love so greatly your willing to die.
To give so much yet never run dry.
Willingly I surrender to a fate not known.
Will I survive and be made one of his own.
Or will I be cast aside once roughly used.
Left beaten and hurt and badly bruised.
Frightened I look to you for my fate.
Your eyes I try to translate.
Still I know not what my future holds.
But I like what I see as I watch it unfold

 

[Satin Kitty 69]

RL has taken me away from my roamantic side for many days and this renaissance man needs to recharge his soul.


kurt

Thank you Kurt...

I was wondering if I should post a poem, it isn't romantic, and is actually quite sad. It is about not being believed when bad things are happening.

 

[GoddessOfSouls]

RL has taken me away from my roamantic side for many days and this renaissance man needs to recharge his soul.


kurt

Good to see you again Godessofsoul.


I was content living in the seclusion of my mind.
There I was safe and hurt I would not find.
There were four walls surrounding my life.
That kept out the filth of human lice.
A distance between myself and love,
provided me with a safety glove.
Affection I could not provide.
Happiness to myself I denied.
One day in my dark secluded world,
A dim light seemed to swirl.
I reached out a trembling hand.
To see if it was a dream or man.
To my surprise it touched flesh, skin.
Shock registers as new emotions begin.
Love, fear, content, hunger and passion
my soul retreats and becomes ashen.
"War", my mind cries as I double the walls.
"Enemy", my heart screams," barricade the halls."
I was ready for a raging battle.
But inside, my heart and soul seemed to rattle.
I fought and kept up my shield
but my fate in this battle was sealed.
This battle I was to lose... yet win.
This is the original sin.
To love so greatly your willing to die.
To give so much yet never run dry.
Willingly I surrender to a fate not known.
Will I survive and be made one of his own.
Or will I be cast aside once roughly used.
Left beaten and hurt and badly bruised.
Frightened I look to you for my fate.
Your eyes I try to translate.
Still I know not what my future holds.
But I like what I see as I watch it unfold

Kurt! that was most beautiful! the war we all face afraid to trust our own heart and soul to anothers love so great *hugs* Nice to see you again as well

 

[Kurt_C]

GodessofSouls

Yes it is that battle I curently walk, but it is not only my soul that I fear, but the hurt that I may wield unto others as I fight in the battle of love.

I thought you might enjoy that one Satin Kitty 69

Kurt

 

[Satin Kitty 69]

GodessofSouls

Yes it is that battle I curently walk, but it is not only my soul that I fear, but the hurt that I may wield unto others as I fight in the battle of love.

I thought you might enjoy that one Satin Kitty 69

Kurt

I can be hard to let someone in, harder still to not be able to say "I love you" back when you care and wish them no harm. Part of you wishes for a different life, to be able to lead two paths.

I have had the unfortunate experience of realizing that a friends emotions run so deep, wishing that in another life we might find each other again, for in this one I am already joiined with another. So very hard. I wish take I could lead a life which each soul I love, rather than pushing them back into the role of "friend".

 

[GoddessOfSouls]

GodessofSouls

Yes it is that battle I curently walk, but it is not only my soul that I fear, but the hurt that I may wield unto others as I fight in the battle of love.

I thought you might enjoy that one Satin Kitty 69

Kurt

Hun we can't take on that pain! Be true to yourself and know that those who love you and care for you will stand beside you! Be True to yourself!

 

[Satin Kitty 69]

Bellow is a poem that I wrote last night at about 1am, after laying in bed not sleeping. It is in reference to how I felt during some of the darkest years of my life. There are many reasons we might feel alone, without hope and without love. We all have experienced it.

When you are not believed....
You are alone in a world
Surrounded by people you fear
Holding a secret that hurts.
Both to keep and to tell.

No where is safe
Fear is all you feel,
Doubt robs you of yourself,
You survive but never live.

Everyday a new dawn,
More silent pain, more despair.
Life is about surviving till the next day,
Hope fades, but it is all you have.

You seek the absence of pain,
There is no true happiness,
Only glimpses of freedom,
Only short moments of joy.

Life becomes a lie,
There is no real you.
Only what people imagine,
Only what people demand.

What is reality?
What they see and say?
What you feel?
You no longer know.

Death is no longer feared.
It becomes an escape,
A chance for freedom form pain,
Something to hope for.

Suicide is not an option,
Then even your own death,
Would become a lie.
No escape, no truth.

The blessing and the curse
Of seeing and living
What others ignore,
And are afraid to see.

Hope beyond reason,
A search for meaning
In the senseless pain
That others condone and ignore.

Trapped, suffering now,
Waiting for the day to end
Tomorrow more pain
Just like in the past.

No shoulder to cry on.
No reassurance of what’s reality.
No faith in who you are.
No one to depend on, not even yourself.

 

[Kurt_C]

Hun we can't take on that pain! Be true to yourself and know that those who love you and care for you will stand beside you! Be True to yourself!

WOW GoddessOfSoul, you read right through that one. It torments me so. I hurts me to hurt another although I know I must if I am to be true to myself. It's is still hard to hurt another soul.

Satin Kitty 69,

I know how feel.


Kurt

 

[Satin Kitty 69]

WOW GoddessOfSoul, you read right through that one. It torments me so. I hurts me to hurt another although I know I must if I am to be true to myself. It's is still hard to hurt another soul.

Satin Kitty 69,

I know how feel.


Kurt

Thank you Kurt for your support (in so many ways)

 

[Kurt_C]

Satin Kitty 69

My heart goes out to you to have to have felt such pain, such loneliness, a lonliness without hope. I have too felt this pain, a pain so unbearable, so unimaginable, so cruel. No human should ever feel such pain. I still can't believe humans can be so cruel.. You must be truely a magnificent person to have endured such pain. I am sorry that you have had to visit that dark place.


{{{{{{{{{Satin Kitty 69}}}}}}}}}}}


Kurt

 

[Satin Kitty 69]

Satin Kitty 69

My heart goes out to you to have to have felt such pain, such loneliness, a lonliness without hope. I have too felt this pain, a pain so unbearable, so unimaginable, so cruel. No human should ever feel such pain. I still can't believe humans can be so cruel.. You must be truely a magnificent person to have endured such pain. I am sorry that you have had to visit that dark place.


{{{{{{{{{Satin Kitty 69}}}}}}}}}}}


Kurt

Hugs and kiss Kurt. I wish you had never felt the touch of such pain. Humans are capable of great and horrible things. Magnificent, not really, just unwilling to believe that life is limited to the narrow views of others. It was a horrible place to visit, I wish never to returned, but because of it my values and my spirit was fire-hardened in the pits of hell. No matter what comes know I know that at the very least I will survive, hopefully to truly live at a later time.

 

[Kurt_C]

Satin Kitty 69,
yes after rising from the ashes, I am stronger than ever before, I have seen the darkest side of man kind and now I am better and stronger than before and never again shall such despare touch my soul, and I will cast down anyone to tries to bring such pain to another soul.

Satin Kitty 69, you are wrong, you are magnifcent to have risen,
most do not survive such pain, they parish in the ashes of hell or become so bitter they live a life of misery.


Kurt

 

[Satin Kitty 69]

Satin Kitty 69,
yes after rising from the ashes, I am stronger than ever before, I have seen the darkest side of man kind and now I am better and stronger than before and never again shall such despare touch my soul, and I will cast down anyone to tries to bring such pain to another soul.

Satin Kitty 69, you are wrong, you are magnifcent to have risen,
most do not survive such pain, they parish in the ashes of hell or become so bitter they live a life of misery.


Kurt

I am determine, like you, to save others from the pain. No one whould every suffer such a fate. Every night I would pray that hatred would not consume my soul, that I would not be turned into someone who causes others pain.

 

[Soron]

For my Arden...

I love the way you melt into my arms when we embrace,
I love the silky softness of your hair when I caress it,
I love softness and reaction of your lips as we kiss,
But most of all I love the way you hold me so tight and smile at me with your beautiful eyes...

Give me a kiss to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss.

~Louis Armstrong