WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE

 

When you love someone

And you know that they love you,

When they speak your name

It no longer sounds the same

WILL MY PLEA ABOVE

 

Will my plea above

To gladden and cheer

My ardent call for love

Fall on deafened ear

 

Is there not but one

Who will hear my plea

And fill me with joy

Please, please hear me

 

Don’t leave me all alone

Let me share my love

Please have mercy

Oh hear my plea above

 

Take heed of my plea

Just another soul to love

Gentle and replete

And as precious as a dove

TOO OBVIOUS FOR ME

 

Every morning, I watched you

As you got on the bus with graceful ease

You skirt just the wrong side of modest

Your blouse low cut to tease

I never knew your name

You were just the flirt in a skirt

My friend was obsessed by you

But although I could look at you with lust

You were not for me, not quite my cup of tea

I liked the quiet girl, two seats in front

Who got on and off the bus unnoticed

Except of course for me, I saw her

And I knew her name, and I married her

WHEN WILL I REACH THE MAIN EVENT?

 

When will I reach the main event?

I’m tired of dainty canapés

I’ve had too many hors d'oeuvres

They are getting on my nerves

When will I reach the Entrée?

When will I meet the one I seek?

My life long dining companion

THE LOSS OF LOVE

 

The loss of love you see

Isn’t due to infidelity

It’s caused by over familiarity

And excessive intimacy

For how can love survive?

When before your eyes

Is the object of your affection

Rubbing cream on some infection

Or the person you are dating

Is on the toilet evacuating

THAT’S LOVE THAT IS

 

My big sister really loves me

I know this because, you see

All her old clothes she gives to me

But that’s not all, I’ve just begun

Because when she is all done

She has to go and buy new ones

That’s love that is

I REMEMBER LINDA

 

I remember way back when,

And my first schoolboys crush

When just to look at Linda

Was like being hit with a sugar rush

 

I remember when she said

“I really like your shirt by the way”

Well I was so in love with her

That I wore that shirt every day

MY MAN IS MY BEST FRIEND

 

My man is my best friend

He listens to me,

Enables me,

Reassures me,

Inspires me,

He makes me feel special

He makes me feel sexy

He understands me

He is in touch with my feelings

My man is my best friend?

Is he bollocks

Gordon’s is my best friend

Give me another gin and tonic

ONLY SKIN DEEP

 

You are truly beautiful

But beauty is only skin deep

Isn’t that what they say?

Only skin deep?

 

But looking through my eyes

Who ever said those words

Would think that they

Now sound quite absurd

 

For to say of you

That beauty is just skin deep

Must stir the angels hearts

And make them weep

 

You are truly beautiful

To the core of your being

It’s not just your skin

That I am seeing

 

Your beauty emanates

From your soul,

Gracing every atom, 

That makes the beautiful whole

 

From the marrow of your bones

It outwardly flows

So on your lustrous skin

Your beauty glows

BUT DON’T TELL ME

 

I know you want to end it

But don’t tell me at the hotel

Don’t tell me at the café

I know I won’t take it well

Don’t tell me at the restaurant

Don’t tell me by the pool

Don’t tell me on the beach

Don’t make me look a fool

You can tell me in the ocean

And realise all my fears

Tell me as we swim in the sea

Then you won’t see my tears

WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?

 

When did it happen?

How did I not notice?

What distracted me?

Or have I been blind

Where did she go?

The awkward girl of yesterday

Where is that ungainly creature?

When did you become a woman?

Have I been blind all this time?

When did you bloom into woman hood?

When I looked away

You were an ugly duckling

When I looked back

A bird of paradise

When did you become so beautiful?

I KISSED A GIRL # 2

 

I kissed the girl

On an aeroplane

And on the airport bus

I kissed her once again

 

I kissed a girl

That I met in Spain

We met later that day

And we kissed again

 

I kissed the girl

With the long white train

And at the alter

I kissed her once again

I KISSED A GIRL # 1

 

I kissed a girl,

A very friendly sort

While I was staying

At a seaside resort

 

One kiss led to another

One kiss led to the other

And one kiss led to her

Becoming a mother

METICULOUSLY REHEARSED

 

I was prepared

I had it all planned out

Every word

Every gesture

Meticulously rehearsed

Till word perfect

 

I was prepared

For excitement

Unconfined joy

Tears of happiness

Words of love

And utter delight

 

I wasn’t prepared

For your reaction

Your unkind words

Your gestures

Tears of laughter

And utter rejection

IN THE CLOUDLESS NIGHT SKY

In the cloudless night sky

Each star clear

In the heavens

Sparkling like sequins

On a ball gown

Are you there?

In heavens firmament

Are you the bright star?

The one more beautiful

Than its neighbour

A thing of beauty

As you once were

At my side 

SWEET LOVE SONG

 

Each word leaving

Your sweet lips

Is like a velvet caress

Your words are like poetry

Each syllable, honey coated

Every sentence

Dripping with nuance

The formed verses

Of loves refrain

All at once

Lightening my heart

And touching my soul

 

LONELY GIRL BY THE WINDOW

 

Lonely girl by the window

Looking out on the world

As ever alone in her room

By the window sits the girl

 

She watches from the window

As the world passes her by

As always alone in her room

She sits by the window and cries

 

Lonely girl by the window

Sits at the window and dreams

And hopes that life for her

Isn’t as despairing as it seems

 

She watches from the window

Wishing in her lonely solitude

With all the hope in her heart

That one day she will be rescued

FOURSOME

 

I’m in love with A

Alas she likes B

B fancies C

But C wants me

JUNE IN THE DUNES

 

On the longest day in June

The songsters croon

Beneath the summer moon

But lovers play a different tune

In the quiet of the dune

Finds loves passions strewn

Where lovers fondly spoon

And Terry makes love to June

He begs the morn not to come to soon

She similarly begs him to attune

THE BLUE JEAN BOY

 

The blue jean boy

His black Perfecto

Over his white T

Just watched Brando

In The Wild Ones

Wanted to hit the road and go

 

The blue jean boy

Told his brother Michael

That he was a wild one

And he bought a motorcycle

 

The blue jean boy

Took to the road he chose

What happened that day

Nobody really knows

But when he hit the road

Blue jean boy never arose

MY SWEATER GIRL

 

Nobody filled a sweater

Quite like my sweater girl

And no one in a poodle skirt

Could match her swing and swirl

 

Nobody could cut a rug

Like my sweater girl could do

And when it came to necking

She’d be the one for you

 

It didn’t matter what she wore

She was the cutest by a mile

In PF Fliers and pedal pushers

Or at the hop putting on the style

 

Nobody filled a sweater

Like my sweater girl could

And if I could go back fifty years

Then I promise you I would

BOBBY SOXER

 

I’m in love with a 50’s teen

I’m in love with my Bobby Soxer.

Pony tail bobbing

Wearing my Letterman

Over her white blouse

Then the free-swinging

Poodle skirt

Defining her waist

And accentuating those hips.

A flattering swirl of skirt

Covers her skinny legs

She looks so cute

In her bobby socks

And saddle shoes

How I love it

When she kicks up

Her Mary Jane’s

As we bop at the sock hop

IN AN INTENSE GAZE

 

I’m holding you in my arms,

Staring into your green eyes,

And a feeling washes over me

A feeling of intense love

And it makes me smile

Then your eyes meet mine

In an intense gaze

And I see in the depths of your eyes

Recognition and I know

You love me the same

GIVE UP BABE

 

Give up babe

Forget about me

Marry him

I know you want me baby

But it’s over

Don’t call me

Don't tell me you love me

Don’t be a bunny boiler

Don't speak

Don't ask me why

I don’t want to be cruel

The sun has gone down on us

It doesn’t make me feel good

That we’ve thrown it all away

So walk away

Don’t stop

Don’t look back

REMINISCING KISSING

 

I like to sit and reminisce

About that first, of many, kiss

We weren’t even a couple yet

We hadn’t really properly met

Two complete novices in the art

Yet we kissed from the start

Like masters of the kissing craft

With a passionate abiding graft

I like to sit and reminisce

About our special first kiss

WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING

 

We are at the beginning

We are barely on our way

Love is still new and fresh

But I would just like to say

I want to grow old with you

Till we are both old and grey

I want us both to be together

Until our far-off dying day

AWOKEN

You have awoken the sleeping beast

That was my heart of black

You have awakened the feelings

That died in me a long time back

 

You have made my senses tingle

You have made my pulses race

You have filled me with a glow

And brought a smile back to my face

 

Now the sleeping beast has awoken

I just thought you should know

You have given me new life

And I will always love you so

THE SEEDS OF LOVE ARE SOWN

 

The seeds of love are sown

When cupid’s arrow flies

A love that grows ever stronger

Begins at first in the eyes

 

Then the seeds are nurtured

And with patient cultivation

Then love, strong and sturdy 

Will be the fruitful culmination

ON THAT BEAUTIFUL SUNLIT DAY IN JUNE

 

On that beautiful sunlit day in June
When they played that familiar tune
My heart was filled with happiness
When I saw you in the big white dress

 

I stole a sideways glance at you
And found you looking at me too
It was quite goofy we smiled so much
I took your hand and felt your tender touch

 

Proudly we stood together side by side
As before God the knot was tied
My heart filled again with happiness
As I wed the girl in the big white dress

 

If pride is a sin then I’ve sinned too much
I’ve felt it when I’ve felt your loving touch
I’ve felt it at our happiest and our saddest
And when I saw you in a maternity dress

 

Oh how I remember that day in June
When they played that familiar tune
And my heart was filled with happiness
When I saw you in the big white dress

 

And now as I look back across the years
To the times of laughter and of tears
I wish to tell it to the world and shout it loud

I’ve never said “I love you” and not felt proud

SHE HAS GONE NOW

 

She has gone now

And has left a hole

Where my heart

Once resided

But her spirit

Is always with me

And hangs in the air

Like a breath of spring

BEFORE THE MOMENT PASSES

 

Before the moment passes

I would just like to say

Don’t you ever forget

Not even for a day

How very special you are

In each and everyway