OEMS OF THE HEART
VOL. III
WYATT STUMBO
Copyright 2016 Wyatt Stumbo
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Ebook formatting by Maureen Cutajar
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Dec. 2015
I dedicate this book to the object of my secret admiration.
CONTENTS
I SAW YOU
SUGAR
LOVE?
FIRE
LITTLE TORNADO
BONNIE
SAIL
SHE SAID, “I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER ME.”
RAQUEL
GET UP
SUZY
THE DAY
NO ROAD THERE
SANDRA
THOUGHTS
WHO CAN?
HUSH
SWEET MEMORIES
A SURPRISE DROPS FROM THE SKIES
TO FEEL LOVE
BELLE
MOVE UP
THINK
SET THE FIRE
BLUE EYES
UNSHACKLED
THOUGHTS
FLAMES OF LOVE
LEFT
SELF PORTRAIT
DEPTH
A BLOSSOM (SANDRA)
COLD HEART
HE (1)
MY! MY!
HE (2)
WIND
UNINTRUSIVE
CHATTER
TARNISHED ARMOR
POOR LITTLE BEAUTY
RUN
LIFE’S GARDEN
DO IT
IF FOREVER KNOCKED?
STREAMS
TASTES
COULD HAVE BEEN MINE
SCREAMING HEART
NIGHT
STRETCHING
SAY YOU LOVED ME
KRISTY
FRAGRANTLY FEMININE
ROSES GREW
THE MASTER
ARE THERE?
SEARCH
WHISPERS
MORNING
CAPTURED
LOVE COMES CRASHING DOWN
AMAZED!
FRESH, PURE LIGHT
LAUGHTER
JOURNEY LIFE
BROKEN
FILM ROLLS
PLAYING WITH FIRE
SIX FEET TALL
TO REALLY LIVE
LISTEN
ANOTHER PLAN
ON THAT DAY!
DEEP DESIRE
TO HOLD YOU
HOW MUCH
PARALLEL DIMENSION
COLORS
NATURE STRAINS
THINKIN’ ‘BOUT YOU
GRANDDAD (2)
‘OLE KENTUCKY
MEMORIES
RATTLE TATTLE AT MY DOOR
LITTLE EYES SO BIG
I WANT YOU
A PIECE OF TRUTH FORGOTTEN
TRUTH NEVER LIES
BACK AGAIN
APPEARANCE
A LONG WAYS
SOME LIKE
TOMORROW
NO FROST
WANTING MORE
HOME
GRANDMA
GRANDDAD
I SAW YOU
I saw you in the sunset
on the first day of May
I wondered where you’d been
on such a sunny day
I saw you in the park
on a winter day so cold
playing with your friends
in the fresh fallen snow
I saw you in the woods
walking down the trail
playing with your dog
as the light rain fell
I saw you in the ocean mist
the waves came rolling in
They washed your feet so gently
and rolled back out again
I saw you at the station
you caught a westbound train
The engine was too loud
when I called your name
I think of you so often
so much fun we had
You, a charming damsel
and I, a handsome lad.
SUGAR
Speak to me softly
Speak to me oftly
Speak to me slowly
Speak to me only
with those sugar lips!
Let the honey drip!
May the finest wine
from the sweetest vine
roll from those cherry lips!
Let me have another sip!
LOVE?
If you love things
more than yourself
how will you ever
love someone else?
FIRE
Play me a song
Tell me a story
Whisper in my ear,
Hold me in your arms
Brush my lips with yours
Love me like you never
loved before,
May the day move slowly
as we lay so closely...
Flames of ecstasy igniting...
LITTLE TORNADO
A little tornado
a stormy twister
touched down on me...
Her fiery passion
swirling round and round
kindles burning flames
deep inside my heart...
BONNIE
Sparks of romance
fell into my hands
Flames of fire in the night
Days are lighter, sun is brighter
Carry me home in your sweet arms
Your beauty is shining,
I feel your charm
Carry me home in your sweet arms
Flames of fire
in the night...
SAIL
Sail with the speed of light
across a moonlit night
and settle down
upon a blue green sea...
SHE SAID, “I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER ME.”
Arms around her
bodies close
Words are lost
in a moment savored
To love and be loved
Deep desire in our soul
Incomplete alone
Satisfaction flees
We run, we walk
Sometimes we crawl
Searching in the daylight
and the dark of night
Love hides
just beyond our grasp
We struggle on
Looking, hoping, dreaming
Thrust into a tailspin
A puzzle incomplete
A maze that never ends
A rich dense forest
Another day, another time
Wanting the one
that overwhelms our thirst
and sets our heart on fire
Love softly calls
in the middle of the night
Her echoes ring out
across the empty walls...
RAQUEL
Raquel, one hundred percent female
A pleasant, pleasing personality
flowing like a soft, warm,
summer breeze
An exotic sunrise
She shines bright
lighting the darkness of night!
Natural beauty, nicely maintained
A modest manner
not pushy or flaunting
A sweetness welcomed
by an often impersonal world
begging for more
Truly one of a kind
Those Michigan girls
sure
are fine!!
GET UP
Shake off the dust,
Stand on your own
two feet once more,
Love like you ain’t
never loved before!
• To squeeze life ‘til it bleeds
a beautiful melody.
SUZY
She must be a thinker
Her dreams pour down like rain
Her naked eyes can see the stars
and venture on to Mars
Her heart beats pure passion
Life lived not denied
Yet ever with discretion
Mindful of each step
Limits of the mind undefined
Reaching past the distance...
The faraway horizon
but a landmark along the playground
of the vastness laying before her...
without
end...
THE DAY
To call upon the day
and hear it say,
“Enter without peril,
play without price,
walk and never stumble.”
• If nothing held you back, how far
would you go?
NO ROAD THERE
To step outside of space and time
untouched, unmolested by the movements
of the world around you...
Not pulled up or dragged down,
reality suspended...
A world within the world
unfazed by the daily grind
of negative energy that surrounds you
From the cradle to the grave
you escape to a place
that cannot be worked up
but can be fed...
There you are
without effort or dread...
unexplainably pleasant...
SANDRA
The halls grew dim,
The sun refused to shine,
and the moon no longer
lights the night
since you’ve been gone...
• You cannot see with the eye alone...
You must look with the heart and soul.*
THOUGHTS
Thoughts are sown
in a garden by the grove
where the campfire glows
Stories are told
concerning those
who fit no mold
Flames move and flow
soft guitar sounds roll
as a blues harp blows
A gentle soul
who no one knows
sits in quiet repose
People come and go
every hour or so
in a place where
moss never grows...
WHO CAN?
Who can say
what’s never been said?
Who can draw
what’s never been drawn?
Who can sing
what’s never been sung?
Who can do
what’s never been done?
• Enjoy the ride...
HUSH
Let the quiet find
a place in your mind
Pay no attention to time...
let it pass on by
Silence moves in slow
rocking the stillness
of your soul
let it flow...
Let space and time
roll on by
like clouds waltzing
through the sky
Hear the birds chirp in the trees
a lush meadow by a spring
softly flowing, hear it sing...
Laying in the grass
by the trickling stream
dreaming the sweetest dream...
Once you begin
to let it soak in
the calmness soothes your soul
with a soft caressing hold...
• When we laugh we should laugh twice
as hard for those who never laugh.
SWEET MEMORIES
My pickup truck squeaked and groaned
down that bumpy road
riding through the country
looking for my home
Clouds of dust behind me,
narrow roads ahead
sweet, sweet memories
flowing through my head
I sing about the old days
as if they were brand new
my mind never wanders
very far from you
As you made my breakfast
in that blue, cotton gown
I knew you were the best thing
I had ever found
As you spoke to me
from the bottom of your heart
I prayed a little prayer
that we would never part
Now I think