Michael's Wingman and the Beloved

Michael's Wingman and the Beloved

Monday, December 30, 2013

When You’re in Love

“When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the mysteries.”― Paulo Coelho, Brida

Monday, November 18, 2013

The Moment I Saw You

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Wind

"At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath.” ― Sean Holloway. (J.A. Belfield), Instinct

Monday, October 21, 2013

What a Miracle

“What a miracle,
You and I,
Entwined in the same nest;
What a miracle,
You and I: one Love,
One Lover, one Fire,
In this world and the next,
In an ecstasy without end.” ―Rumi

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Perfect Awareness

“True love is a developed and intense appreciation for someone. It’s that perfect awareness that you are finally whole when she’s with you, and that hollow incompleteness you suffer when she’s gone.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Return of a Queen

Monday, October 7, 2013

I Believe

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Our Soulmate

“Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” ―Richard Bach

When You're In Love

“When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.”― Paulo Coelho, Brida

Sunday, October 6, 2013

This is Love

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” ―Rumi

Thursday, September 26, 2013

I Love You Until It Hurts

Lena, I will love you until it hurts...

...and it hurts beyond measure.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

O My Love, My Wife

“O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Praying At The Temple Of Her

“Whatever resistance I had known to focusing on a woman’s pleasure fell away. The smell of her body comforted and ignited me, heaven scent. My usually selfish hands became tools of devotion, praying at the temple of her.”
—Jeff Brown, Soulshaping

Sunday, September 22, 2013

I Knew I Loved You

“I knew I loved you before I met you 
I think I dreamed you into life 
I knew I loved you before I met you 
I have been waiting all my life” 
― Savage Garden

Monday, September 16, 2013

O That I Were A Glove Upon That Hand

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

My Heart's Desire

“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”― Jack Llawayllynn, Indulgence

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

A Promised Sunrise

“You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.” ―Maya Angelou

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

O My Love, My Wife

“O my love, my wife!

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath

Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Sunday, August 18, 2013

She Wore Her Sexuality With An Older Woman's Ease

“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”― Zadie Smith

I Saw A Woman

“I saw a woman who physically and spiritually blocked out the definition of being celestial, and replaced it with her own divine beauty. She was transcendent. She was beyond astonishing in her presence. But what she truly did, which was beyond the scope of an average woman's power, was step above the barriers of reality and illusion with her pure, majestic, and omnipotent beauty.” ― Lionel Suggs

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Take Away Love

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”― Robert Browning

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

There Are Not Enough Days In Forever

“There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.”― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Madly, Profoundly, Passionately

I am madly, profoundly and passionately in love with my wife. And if that means I will spend the rest of my days as a single man in this life until I am rejoined with her in the next so be it.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Believe in a Love

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Monday, July 22, 2013

You Are Mine Forever


“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.  Death cannot kill what never dies.”—William Penn 

Sunday, July 21, 2013

I’ll Love You With All My Heart

“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”― Lauren Kate, Passion

You Breathed Life Into Me

“Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.”—Eve Glicksman

You Were Mine From the Beginning


“He never knew a single second could be expanded into something timeless and so archaic. It shook him to his core – there were no words for it.”― Dianna Hardy, The Sands Of Time 

She Taught Me

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Monday, July 15, 2013

Love Knew it was Called Love

“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”
― Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor 

Saturday, July 13, 2013

And When Her Lips Met Mine

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

I'll Love You

“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”― Lauren Kate, Passion

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Soulmates, By Chance

“I have been…
 To every depth of my heart
 To every height of my mind
 To every extent of my world
 I see only one name
It’s yours…”
 ― Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance

You Are Here

I remember you smoking your cigarette and smiling.  I remember you biting your lip trying not to laugh.  I remember your hair pulled back.  And I remember your quietness. I miss touching you, Lena, but I feel you with me.  By some strange miracle, you are here.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

I Miss You


Thinking of You

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.   I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”― Jonathan Safran Foer

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Seize the Night

“Her beauty is not just—or even primarily—physical. In her face, I see her wisdom, her compassion, her courage, her eternal glory. This other beauty, this spiritual beauty—which is the deepest truth of her—sustains me in times of fear and despair, as other truths might sustain a priest enduring martyrdom at the hands of a tyrant. I see nothing blasphemous in equating her grace with the mercy of God, for the one is a reflection of the other. The selfless love that we give to others to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest; we carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope. In her it is spark is bright, a light that heals rather than wounds me.”—Dean Koontz, Seize the Night

Under the Sunlit Sky

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Love is a Wild Fire

“Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.”― Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story

I Ache for Her

"I physically ache to be released in her."—Marek Gitto

Be Not Ashamed

“Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.”― Walt Whitman

Friday, July 5, 2013

Thursday, July 4, 2013

A Woman's Heart

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”― Maya Angelou

Monday, July 1, 2013

If You Remember Me

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

She Walks in Beauty Like the Night

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
― George Gordon Byron

Ligeia

“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

There is Nothing More Rare

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Absolute Beginners




“Nothing much can happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
That's all I really need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
And if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed”
—David Bowie, Absolute Beginners

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Three Summer Days

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

You Know You're in Love

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”― Dr. Seuss

I Will Not Say Goodbye

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”—Rumi 

I'd Sleep Forever

“If the only place where I could see you was in my dreams, I’d sleep forever.”—Unknown 

Maybe I'm Amazed



“Baby I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Babe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won't you help to me understand”
—Paul McCartney, Maybe I’m Amazed

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Passion

“Passion is when a person all of a sudden becomes terribly important. It is even more unfair when they become memorable.”― Bauvard, Evergreens Are Prudish

The Lover Knows

“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”—George Santayana

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

My Love Rises


“She rises from the cool waters of the unconscious into consciousness.  In this surreal world of magic and madness, she is the only thing real to me.  Her love tangible, her beauty unblemished, her soul unceasing.”—Marek Gitto

Mad Girl's Love Song

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

Love to the Point of Madness

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”―Francois Sagon

Monday, June 24, 2013

You Are My Garden

“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”—Claudia Ghandi

All Days are Nights

“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
          And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.”
—William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XLIII"

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Within You

“Within you I lose myself...
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.”—Author Unknown

Parting

“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.” —Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

I Have Found My Soul

“Meeting you was like discovering a lost treasure.  I now know what the shaman mean when they say, ‘I have found my soul.’”—Marek Gitto

We are One

“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

Saturday, June 22, 2013

I Love You

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”—Roy Croft

Close to Her

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”—Leo Tolstoy

Only the Beginning

“Real love stories never have endings.”—Richard Bach

In All the World

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”—Maya Angelou

A Soulmate Won't Leave You


"A soulmate won't leave you when you are broken and lost.  It is then they will find you."
―Marek Gitto

Image:  Together Holding Hands by juganue on deviantART

Thursday, June 20, 2013

There Is

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”― Homer, The Iliad

I Want Morning and Noon and Nightfall With You...

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Gazing at a Distant Star

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.  It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.  Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

You Are My Sister


“Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’ and call understanding your kinsman”
 —Proverbs  7:4

Image:  Woman Pouring Water During Morning Puja on Ganges, Varanasi, India by Anthony Plummer



Annabel Lee

“For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
—Edgar Allan Poe

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Longing

“And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”—Kahlil Gibran

She Waits For Me

“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’”—Viktor Frankl

Of Sophia

“Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.”—Proverbs 4:6

Make Not a Bond of Love

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”—Khalil Gibran

Love is a Free Gift

“Man depends on God for all things; God depends on man for one. Without Man’s love, God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God Himself, can command. It is a free gift, or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death.”—Dimensions of Job, Archibald MacLeish

I Was Not Afraid Anymore

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid anymore.”― John Steinbeck

What is Done in Love is Done Well

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”—Vincent Van Gogh 

I Started Looking for You

“The minute I heard my first love story, 
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi

The Charms of a Woman

“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”—Akhenaten 

Monday, June 17, 2013

What is Logic

“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.”-From the Film A Beautiful Mind

On the Beloved

"...man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment."—Viktor Frankl