There is something in the music that acts like a conduit – carrying  memory to feeling to desire on every note. A powerful thing, that in a strange way the listening makes me feel like I am a part of you, our hearts beating in unison to the blues.

You should be here with me, feeling every breath like it’s sliding up the neck of the guitar, and the pulse´d beating crash of the symbol and slap on the bass in unison with the rhythm of my body.  When the bluesman puts his lips to the mic and sings his words in a slow low groan, I’m convinced they will uncover the telling of our story. One way or another – a phrase, a word, a riff, a run, or maybe the whole song, making an indelible mark of blues that dances over the  soul of two lovers.

© Sandy Hibbard

I found this on Instagram at @Avastave and had to share, so beautiful the language of true lovers….

“We didn’t need to say anything. No mundane words or philosophical theories to express in order to garner some form of renewed affection or attraction. In silence still, we connected more than most. If we never spoke again, if your looks fade and your money runs dry, I will still feel you as I always have. As my equal, my partner…. my love.”

#Avastave – 1940 couple, photographer unknown.

Click the audio link to hear the spoken word:

TO NO END 

Oh don’t get me wrong

I do love you

I want to share life

The little time that I have

I want that to belong to you

There is no hiding my desire

I want your starlight

To explore together

All the things

We’ve dreamed of

These emotions are too raw to let me lie

This is what I want

You to hold me all night long

And love me

Like the morning will never come

© Sandy Hibbard 3/4/17

Today was a thoughtful day as I sat to write, so I think depending on where you are in your life and pursuits of the soul and love, this poem can take on several meanings. As I have often been accused of being in love with the world, I thought I would write about the ‘world’ as a lover juxtaposed against our lover who is our world.  I would love to hear from you and what you think about it.

Thanks, and as always, love and peace!

Click play for the recorded version of Dear World.

Dear World

Everyday

I think of you

In the morning when I wake

In the evening when i go to sleep

I ponder what it would be like to have you in my arms

Like a lover

To share laughter with you

To be wrapped up in you

To break bread

Share wine

Tell stories

Just to be

I imagine how you would make me feel

Cozy and at home no doubt

I would lie safe and at rest

Drawing breath from your life

And sweet sleep in your dreams 

Yes

I am in love with you

When I open my eyes to a new day

I imagine you there to greet me

And without shyness I resound an encouragement for the day

A love note for living

I would cook up something great to eat

And we would sit by the fire and speak together

Of love and art

Life and pain

There we would giggle and weep

Because we are alive together

Throughout the day I am aware of you

From moment to hour

I am aware of the many things that nudge me toward you

I want to share my excitement

Hey did you see this? Did you know that?

I want to connect to you and share the emotions and joy that fill my thoughts

And just to know that you are ok

Is that too forward? Would that annoy you?

I wish I could bring you to my doorstep and into my room

Pour you a drink and touch your warm skin

There you would hold me

Touch my face and stroke my hair

Would that say I was too needy?

But in truth i am

I need your pulse in my heart

I need to know we are together on this journey

Dear World

Thank you for loving me

Thank you for letting me love you

You’re not alone you know

As far apart as we may be at times

I will always be here

Right by your side and in the stream

Where we have lived together for a million years

You are connected to the universe in me

You are my world

You are my love

© Sandy Hibbard February 14, 2017

Photography by Sandy Hibbard www.Lensqueen.com.

Beautiful and tender, a lovely poem from House of Heart, I had to share.
XOXO
Sandy

Esperanza

Feel the sun on your skin and smell nature in the air.  Don’t miss this moment because of something stupid you or someone did in the past, let it go, living is now. . . XOXO

Love’s Anatomy 

~ your sculpted chest

holds the breath

that brings me your heart

~ your longish fingers

caress the face

that offer you my kisses

~ basquiat arms

embrace the woman

who offers you her love

~ your honey dipped lips

conceal the voice

that speak my name

~ without knowing

you reached for the heart

that brought you love

~ in your midnight eyes

I saw the soul

that only I could understand

~ let us mingle our kisses

in sweet wet whispers

holding in the moment

. . .one glance

. . .this chance

for love

© Sandy Hibbard

My Secret Conversation

In between the night and mornings first light
There is a quiet moment when thoughts of you fill my heart
Never to share out loud, these vision are held soul-captive
My own secret conversation
No one else
In that secret place where I reveal my tender self
Passionate longings give way to visceral imaginations
Life with you,
Love with you,
Death with you
Every detail colored in the magic of our deep sharing
Even the ground beneath our journey reaches up to kiss you
As I reach out to know you
In between the night and mornings first light
I share openly without fear
And in this twilight conversation you are always here
What I see sustains me in that moment
Lulling me to sleep
To embrace this dream of the night
Maybe someday we will have this conversation
In broad open daylight
 
© Sandy Hibbard
Opening photo “Lovers” by Spokojnysen