February Poetry 2021 by BJ Neblett

 February Poetry 2021 by BJ Neblett

Inside You

BJ Neblett

© 2015

 

I want to be inside you

 

Inside your mind

To know how you feel

Inside your thoughts

Your hopes your dreams and fears

Inside your arms

Protected and warm

Inside your eyes

To see and touch your world

Inside your laugh

Know you as a child

Inside your heart

And know the things you hide

 

I want to be inside you

And fill your life with love

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

(Click for the YouTube link)

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

Charlie Brown On Love

"Love is being happy just knowing she's happy... but that isn't so easy."

Growing up I suffered from un-diagnosed dyslexia. A Peanuts coloring book helped me learn to read. Later I discovered good ole Charlie Brown had a lot more to teach me about life and about love. So for Valentine's Day here are some of the lessons I learned, and a few I probably should have learned from Charlie about love.

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

"Love is not giving up on someone when they don't love you back."
"Love is a baseball."
"Love is standing in a doorway just to see her if she comes walking by."
"Love is visiting a sick friend."
"Love is being able to spot her clear across the playground among four hundred other kids."
"Love is wishing you had enough nerve to go over and talk with that little red haired girl."
"Love is getting someone a glass of water in the middle of the night."

Thanks Charlie.
For more on love from the Peanuts gang.

Ernest Hemingway On Love

As Valentine's Day approaches, I have come across this quote from one of my favorite authors. Known more for his realistic and gritty depictions of the human condition and spirit, Hemingway was also quite the philosopher when it came to love. Many of his private writings and letters reflect a softer and more contemplative side, as evidenced by this quote taken from a personal letter. It touches my heart every time I read it over, and I hope it does the same for you.
To someone who has touched my heart: Happy Valentine's Day!
Love to all,
BJ

"I guess the true extent of one's problems is measured by the capacity of your heart to love anything when your head knows there is no good end to it."
                                                     Ernest Hemingway

The Gift by BJ Neblett

The Gift

BJ Neblett

© 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

Valentines Day by BJ Neblett

          Valentines Day

Candy coated memories

Sugar sprinkled fears

Chocolate drops of sorrow

Bitter and sweet tears

Greeting cards of perfumed verse

Hearts with painted lies

Words that melt in your mouth

Rose that wilts and dies

Lover’s kisses passion’s touch

All grow cold in time

Promise to forget-me-not

Be my Valentine

                                                            Raybrook, NY

                                                            November, 2006