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Category Archives: About Love
Life, Love, People and God
My book: Life, Love, People and God is available on Amazon.com. Click here to order a copy It is comprised of poetry and essays written over the past fifty years by myself, a lifelong student of parliamentary procedure and political … Continue reading
Posted in About God, About Life, About Love, About People, Christianity, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Liberty, Literature, Philosophy of Religion, Poetry, Political Theory, Politics, Right to Bear Arms, Social Philosophy
Tagged Bill of Rights, God, Liberty, Life, Louis William Rose, love, People, Poetry, Politics, United States Constitution
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Poem: Remembering Copake at Iguaçu
When I was young I saw a waterfall A single stream into a crystal pool For twenty feet or more There in the water childlike lovers play The scent of pine is heavy in the air Its pungent sweetness carried … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged Argentina, Bish Bash Falls, Brazil, Copake, Iguaçu, Iguaçu Falls, Louis William Rose, New York, Poem, waterfalls, young love
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Song: Once I’d Had Love
Once I’d had love, I had to have it all the time, The years when I was in my prime, To do without it was a crime. Life with-out love, You know it isn’t worth a dime, Or even just … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged awakened love, Louis William Rose, new love, old love, Poetry
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Poem: To Turn and Look at You
When I think about the way that it’s turned out disappointments, failings, and missteps review, If the worth of it I should begin to doubt I’d need only but to turn and look at you I still stand by everything … Continue reading
Sonnet: Amidst the Roar and Tumult of This Age
Amidst the roar and tumult of this age I now and then find time to take my ease beneath a vine calmed by some gentle breeze allowing my sweet dreams to take the stage. I see you there, sweet shining, … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged Dream, Dream Journals, Dream Sharing, Fantasty, Interpretation, Louis William Rose, Poem, Poet, Psychology, Romantic Dreams, Social Sciences, Sonnet
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Poem: A Thousand Different Lights
To see you in a thousand different lights, And watch the shadows play upon your face. To revel in the myriad delights, That sun and stars would delicately trace. To sense your every mood and temperant, Observe you comprehend and … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged art, husband and wife, Louis William Rose, love, marriage, Philosophy, Poem, Poetry
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Poem: I Want to be Good to the Ladies
I want to be good to the ladies, For the ladies have been good to me. The gifts that they gave me were precious, And most of the time they were free. When I was a lad and much bolder, … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged Louis William Rose, Poem, St. Valentines Day, Valentines
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Villanelle: To Say it Using Just a Villanelle
It was a story much too long to tell. So carefully, he chose the words to say. To say it using just a villanelle. He’d met her, but he didn’t know her well. A married woman, she was known to … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged adultery, illicit love, Louis William Rose, lovers, Poem, Villaanelle
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Song: A Song for Jamy
Jamy, when I first met you, I knew that you were special. The passions of the flesh will pass away, But not my love for you, it’s here to stay. Jamy, I can’t forget you, You’ve got me in your … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged Arts, courting rituals, Jamy Sue Rose, Literature, Louis William Rose, love, Lyrics, marriage, Music, Poem, Poetry, relationships, Romance, Romantic comedy film, serenade
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Poem: Patter upon an Umbrella
Whilst I strolled one summer Sunday, came a tree within my reach. Overarched like an umbrella, I there picked myself a peach. From the path a gentle lady did observe my moral breach. I approached her hoping she would not … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Humor, Poetry
Tagged flirting, Louis William Rose, Love at first sight, love spurned, patter, Poem, strolling through the park one day, umbrella
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Sonnet: My Love For You
My love for you is like the wildwood rose. That flourishes secluded in the fields. In seasons lush or deprivate it grows. Each passing year a greater harvest yields. My love for you is like the brook that flows. The … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged Arts, Cupid, Jamy Sue Rose, Louis William Rose, love in nature, My Love For You, Nature, Poem, Poetry, relationships, Romance, Sonnet
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Poem: If I Could but Decide
If I could but decide for both of us, How simple life would be, how free from care. Knowing that in me you’d placed your trust. I’d carefully resolve, strive to be fair Life’s not like that though I guess … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged decision, Louis William Rose, love, mutual commitment, Poem, Poetry, uncertainty
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Sonnet: I Have Sought Thee
I have sought thee for so long, every day and every hour, every poem and every song, wrought to bring our love to flower. Is there naught for me to say, what persuasion, what endearment, could I now at your … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged art, committment, Louis William Rose, Poem: Sonnet, Poetry, Sonnet, unrequited love
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Poem: Remembering you is easy
When I awoke I visualized your face, your smile so vibrant, and your eyes so bright, the way you looked when held in my embrace, in tender dreams I had of you last night. I often think of you throughout … Continue reading
Posted in About Love, Poetry
Tagged Jamy Sue Rose, Louis William Rose, love, Poem, Poetry, Romance
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