Monday February 2 A Month Of Love from BJ Neblett

Enjoy. Then click the link on the right to my writer's blog for this week's love story!

Sometimes, dreams come true...

Maybe it's intuition/

But some things you just don't question/

Like in your eyes I see my future in an instant/

And there it goes I think I found my best friend

"I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You"

Savage Garden 1999

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The Gift

BJ Neblett

©  2013/2014

Once I was a lover

Through youthful eyes I saw

The world a brightly wrapped package

Each dawn Christmas day

My heart I sent before me

Its glow lit my path

The girls who did abide me

I loved them everyone

With poems wise and tender

With songs both sweet and sad

My love boxed gay and brightly

A gift of the pilgrim soul

Many a heart would tarry

Many a breast would sing

Each gentle touch a promise

And every kiss a lie

Each moon would enrapture

Each sun revealed the truth

The package prized and desired

The gift inside ignored

And so my soul did wander

Cold years marked my path

Unopened and unwanted

My gift inside to die

Love’s song but a memory

Heart’s glow a flickering light

Through dimming eyes I saw you

A rose against the snow

My gift all but forgotten

The wrappings torn and brown

You took the love within me

Unquestioned for your own

Thanks. Please be sure to like, link, comment and share the love. You'll find this week's love story by clicking the link to my writer's blog on the right.

BJ

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

Winter Scene by BJ Neblett

Hard to believe 2014 is about over, winter is here. I will be celebrating my Christmas Eve birthday with friends and fellow softballers at an annual get together to benefit orphans at Conor Byrne Pub in Ballard. Everyone is invited for a fun pot luck starting at 5 PM. And here's wishing everyone a blessed and happy holiday season.
Keep watch for more stories on my author's blog, and a very special month long continuing blog on love and romance, right here the month of February. In the mean time, here's a new poem to celebrate the new season.
Peace and love.
BJ

Winter Scene

by BJ Neblett

© 2014

Crystalline flakes dance in the wind outside

Frozen avenues mock the lamenting sun

Fleet footed snowmen assemble to play

Bundled warriors in the snow and sun

Apple cheeked invaders that laugh and play

Through my window the war rages outside

For children snow is to dream and to play

Matterhorn’s for conquering in the sun

Laughter is the sugar of life outside

To play in the sun and snow outside is

To be a child and laugh again