LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

The ones we’ve loved are never really gone not really they come back to us forever after in songs in sunsets and Sundays in the rain.

Never neglect a kiss or a sunset.

Never go in search of love go in search or life and life will find you the love you seek.

Everything that was and is and ever will be is within you.

Sometimes friends are the only escape we have from ourselves

Don’t dream to live forever dream to forever live while you’re alive

Time is all we have and don’t.

Mant don’t realize that some of us wage a great battle every day just to feel normal.

So many of us spend our lives in our minds wandering from past to future like weary time travelers completely ignoring the beautiful now unraveling all around us.

Love is not something to be found it is something to be built brick by careful brick and the more carefully it is built the stronger it will be for when life‘s winds blow and storms shake the walls.

Love is a wondrous and wild storm we must – while we can – dance in the rain

Love someone like it’s your very first night together or your very last

Many of us are extremely uncomfortable being happy like wearing someone else’s clothes so much so that we quickly destruct any happiness that finds us to return to the comfortable agony we know so well.

Here in your arms is where I shall grow old

Embark today on the grand adventure that is the rest of your life

We are all worth loving sometimes we just need someone to take a chance on us.

I will never be perfect for you but I will always imperfectly try to

No matter what happens to us from now until the end I want you to know that I am certain of you and you can be certain of that.

She had given up on love or so she told herself but deep down inside she was holding her breath and clenching her fists with the undying hope that there was still a little love left to go.

Vellichor means “the strange wistfulness of used bookshops”— and it makes me smile to think that such a word was thought important enough to exist.

There will always be magic in the world as long as there are fireflies shooting stars and love in a little girl’s heart.

NOSTALGIA IS THAT HAPPY-SAD WAY OF LOOKING BACKWARD IN SEPIA.

We must all find the courage to follow the path that’s lit up in our hearts.

IF ONLY WE COULD FALL IN LOVE WITH OURSELVES AS EASILY AS WE FALL IN LOVE WITH EVERYONE ELSE.

She kept going for in her heart she wanted to find out what would happen if she didn’t give up this time.

You and I are stars met once in the blink of a universe crossed only for a moment as the ebb and flow of dust and atoms.

Poetry is the place where two imaginations touch.

Love is not something to be found it is something to be built brick by careful brick and the more carefully it is built the stronger it will be for when life’s winds blow and storms shake the walls.