Sad Love Poem due to separation

Back in 1977 I spent a long and lonely year away from my wife.   There was no possibility of getting home.   At that time we we’re into the seventeenth year of our marriage – we celebrated our Golden Anniversary this year  (2010) -  and I missed her.   These poems, each of which might be alternately called a sad love poem, or a long distance love poem or simply short romantic love poems, were the result of this temporary parting.  Firstly a Sad Love Poem

Love

Love, the pleasure, pain, life:

Closeness, distance – of husband and wife;

Love, you, me, as we were

Before this parting did occur;

Close as thought: distant as a star

Love is as we shall be, as we are.

And one I’m sure came from Astral Travel during sleep. Short romantic love poems seemed the order of the day, for I wrote more than are shown here. It could also be called a:

Long Distant Love Poem

In dreams of intimacy that are really than real,

I ask you how you come to me.

Your reply: I came not to you,

My darling, you came to me

And when I awaken the dream still seems real,

Realer than reality – that’s how I feel...

And one I’m sure came from Astral Travel during sleep. Short romantic love poems seemed the order of the day, for I wrote more than are shown here. It could also be called a:

Long Distant Love Poem

In dreams of intimacy that are really than real,

I ask you how you come to me.

Your reply: I came not to you,

My darling, you came to me

And when I awaken the dream still seems real,

Realer than reality – that’s how I feel...