Saturday February 21 A Month Of Love from BJ Neblett & A Poem from CA Griffin

Hope you are enjoying this month's postings on love and romance. Tomorrow I will have a new romance story posted to my writer's blog... you can click the link to the right. But for now please enjoy another offering from my friend, writer Carol Griffin. You can follow Carol's writings by clicking the links below.

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Love is multifaceted...

Girl you are to me/

All that a woman should be/

And I dedicate my life to you always/

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"Always" Atlantic Starr

(Click the title for the YouTube link)

By CA Griffin

We are lovely in our pain

Individually sparkling like diamonds hewn by pressure

Capturing light and glowing

Glistening with the dew of our tears

Beautiful in our despair

Raw and open

Passionate and honest

Ah the purity of truth as revealed in conflict

How revealing it is

Sloughing the detritus

Removing the shell

Exposing what we feel

And growing

There is no value in only joy

Endless sun scorches the flesh

And evolving

There is no value in only pain

Swirling waters drown the body

But in balance

We welcome who we are meant to be

CAG 2/5/15

Sunday February 1 A Month Of Love from BJ Neblett

Hello and welcome to February, the month of love. Regular readers of this blog and of my short stories know that I am a hopeless romantic. I write regularly for Romance Magazine (Click the image at the right) and each Valentine's Day I try and do something special for my readers. This year my good pal and fellow writer Carol Griffin and I have teamed up to bring you a month full of romantic music, poetry, scenery, stories and more. Check back here each and every day this month for a new posting on everyone's favorite subject: romance! You can even make a list of the music we post, a sort of personal mix tape for you and your better half! Just click the links for each song. And when you have enjoyed the postings here, click the link to the right, BJ's Writer's Blog. Each Sunday in February I will be posting a new love story for your enjoyment. We hope you enjoy these postings as much as we have enjoyed putting them together for you. Who knows, maybe this will be the year that I find that certain someone! And as always, be sure to like, link, comment and share the love!

BJ

Tonight you're mine completely

You give your love so sweetly

Tonight the light of love is in your eyes

But will you love me tomorrow?

"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" The Shirelles 1959

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I’m Just A Guy

BJ Neblett

© 2014

I am just a guy

I laugh I hurt

I smile and I cry

I won’t apologize

Hopeless romantic

Foolish some say

You can take your pick

I won’t apologize

No one at my side

Dancing through life

With my stubborn pride

I won’t apologize

Just like everyone

Here all alone

Looking for someone

I won’t apologize

Accept what you can

Who I may be

Whatever I am

I won’t apologize

Look deeper to see

What beats inside

Notice the real me

I won’t apologize

My heart on my sleeve

Prayer on my lips

Just trust and believe

I won’t apologize

I am just a guy

I laugh I hurt

I smile and I cry

I won’t apologize

Peripheral Vision by BJ Neblett

New day; new beginning; new poem. Starting over is never easy no matter where or from what you are starting again. (Didn't I write a poem about that?) Anyway, enjoy this new poem as you enjoy your own fresh start, even if it is just a fresh new day. And please be sure to check out my latest blog, the link is to the right, and my new story Ponytail - Never Say Uncle in the new issue of Romance Magazine. Just click the image on the right. Please like, link, comment and share the love.
BJ

Peripheral Vision

BJ Neblett

© 2014

Gone from my sight

Not from my mind

Memories remain

I hear your voice

I feel your heat

I taste your tears

A blind man stumbling

Amorphous visions

Whisper to my ear

Tell me you’re near

Tease and torment

Bitter and sweet

Memories remain

Gone from my sight

Not from my heart

                        Seattle, WA

                        July, 2014

Sorry from BJ Neblett

As my new romance story Tulips is released today in July's issue of Romance Magazine (Vol 2 No 6, click the image to the right), here is something to ponder, a bit different, but oh, so powerful, by way of my friend Clancy Tucker. For more of Clancy's wisdoms click here: Clancy Tucker's Blog

If you still don't understand contact me. In the mean time be sure to link, like and comment.

Peace,

BJ

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Easter Sunday 2014 by BJ Neblett

A beautiful sunny Sunday can do wonders for the spirit and the muse and the memory. As you enjoy this Easter Sunday, please enjoy this special new poem.
Peace,
BJ

Easter Sunday, 2014

BJ Neblett

© 2014

I bought a bouquet

of tulips yesterday.

They reminded me of you.

The farmer’s market

where I bought them

was busy with people.

But the man selling the

tiny donuts you loved

wasn’t there.

So I had a bagel

with my Sunday paper

at Starbucks.

I placed the flowers in a vase

next to the picture

of you at the tulip

festival last year.

It made me smile.

When I returned home

from shopping

I thought you were here.

But it was just the scent

of the flowers.

It made me dream

of you again.

The pillow where

you lay your head

remained cold and barren.

I bought a bouquet

of tulips yesterday.

They reminded me of you.

Today I threw them

in the trash.

                 Seattle, WA

                 April, 2014