This Kiss

"Take this kiss upon the brow"
sweet tenderness to me allow
for you are all of life to me
I pray unending love can be

your gentleness and kindness show
you might accept me as your beau
if I stay honest, clear and true
in all my promises to you

if you to "thine own self be true"
never giving up your point of view
for these, your ways, I hold divine
wishing only to blend with mine

that we can share a life worth living
with mutual respect and all that's giving
what more could we then ask for us
that what we share be ever thus

"take this kiss upon the brow"
 accept my true and fervent vow
that I will hold you dear to me
for all of our eternity


Ellecee




Inspired by the first line of

Edgar Allen Poe's poem
A Dream within a Dream

and today's challenge from

imaginary garden with real toads

for

Aging

Oh, the play and all the staging

set for aging, aging, aging

Director to the actors paging

come forth on stage and do your part

enable life to create art

Oh, the play and all the staging

set for aging, aging, aging

thin of hair and memory fading

frail of limb, body degrading

Oh, the play and all the staging

set for aging, aging, aging

Thoughts of life with some dejection

not ready soon for more reflection

Oh, the play and all the staging

set for aging, aging, aging

Not to be spared the day of reckoning

I fear the reapers call comes

beckoning, beckoning,

Oh, life's play and all its staging

set for aging

aging

aging

Ellecee

In response to

On Popular Demand – Glimpse into the world of Edgar Allan Poe – [11]

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Bells

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