C.P. Klapper's Blog - Posts tagged "love"

Prayer


My dream, my hope, my life, my everything

I look into the sky to gaze at You

The ballads, lays and bluesy songs I sing

Are hymns I raise to the divine and true

Which lives within Your smile, breathes Your laugh

Your soft and gentle words into the air

But I am broken, not a man but half

Who worships, yearns and pleads that in Your care

You would come down and fill me with Your love

Redeem what twice descended into hell

To take me up to Your abode above

Baptize my heart with waters from Your well

To join with You and no more live in sin

That separation from Our Self within



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In Night


Am I to live in mere recollection
And never see the sun again?
Am I to take my distant, dark orbit
And only be near with thought or pen?

The warmth of your laughter burns within
Which once ran the circuit of your smile
Returning for a time in your sparks of wit
The flame a memory of my cold sundial

Copyright © 2009 by C. P. Klapper

Keep the Faith


The promise of that warm white gleam
Which I saw in our first meeting
Was shining through the clouds that seem
To hang over every greeting

As I hang back and stop each dating
Since our time has not yet come
Elaborate rituals of mating
Delay the day of consum-

Then while encouraging news is spoken
Which brought me what I hoped
I read the words where my heart is broken
Her name with another roped

Yet what can I do but keep the faith
That when my efforts earn
The laurels of the public wreath
I then my bridges burn

Except the destined one to her
That she will let it stand
Where promised hope and we become sure
In greeting hand-in-hand



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Love of Fountain



The thin string of water

Connecting the fountain to the pool

Which ever binds in weakness

To the spouting statue this basin fool



Her casual sprinkling of wetness

Is enough to tempt, enslave, seduce

The sturdy base who sought her

In each drop of her rain which flows through his sluice






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