Search with the Heart: Poems for the Love of Your Life

By Leda A. McIntyre

What is love?
small deliberate steps,
standing side by side, hand in hand,
eyes open, hearts connected,
starting over sometimes.
You and me. Check mark today.

It all begins with chemistrya magnetic attraction between two people that, if they are lucky enough, eventually transforms into love. In Search with the Heart, poet Leda McIntyre celebrates the many faces of this spectacular phenomenon, filled with moments of hope and longing, joy and anxiety, and the everyday blessings of trust and forgiveness.

Anyone who has ever been in love has certainly felt some or all of the accompanying, sweeping emotionsdesire, wistfulness, happiness, sorrow, and compassion. In her first compilation of poetry, McIntyre offers the inspirational, touching poems she has previously given as gifts tucked into luggage, mailed with cards, and folded in lunch bags. With an invitation to share the poems with the loves of their lives, McIntyre lyrically encourages others to reflect on deep feelings that make us all choose and believe in love despite its risks and uncertainties.

Search with the Heart is a poignant collection of verse that honestly explores a passionate, often complex feeling, ultimately reminding all of us how important it is to experience love in our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781462083992

Leda A. McIntyre

Leda A. McIntyre currently resides in Washington, DC. She has been writing poetry for several years. This is her first book.

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ISBN: 978-1-4620-8398-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4620-8399-2 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 8/1/2012

For Nathan and Matthew, who put this book on their

Topsail lists of things I’d do—and believed I’d get it written.

Contents

Moving Through Love

My Heart Keeps Moving

Can the Spirit Intercede?

Nearby

Wisp

Wish You Were Here

Heartache

Words Expire

Life Is Like a String of Pearls

Angel Tears

On Flying Away

Elevators Have Voice

Whisper

Waiting

A Simple Request Denied

Come Home

I Miss You

Satin Fairy Tales

Life’s Little Pleasures

Night Noises

My Hands Full of Love

Rebuilding

Terminal Sunlight

Hand Against the Glass

Again

Love Bubbles Up

To Savor and To Save

Silhouettes

Between Your Hands and Your Heart

A Promise

On Our Anniversary

On the Occasion of One Year

a model marriage

A Bouquet of Years

Painting 101

On the occasion of June 29

Love GPS

Things I Want for You

Making Music

Magic Wings, Audacious Dreams

Vertigo

Shifting into Place

Table for Two

In the Kitchen of My Heart

For the Father in You

The Measure of a Father

Notes to a New Dad

Up to the Task

At the End of the Day

Moving On

Counting Time

Figuring You

Gentle Into Love

No End

One Thing Leads to Another

Forward

These Three

Steadfast

Eyes That See

Explication

Convergence

Check Marks

Moving Through Love

My Heart Keeps Moving

Rather like the big bang theory when we began anew.

There was something there, two planetary personalities

Launched into new paths, parallel and closer.

Two people carefully choosing:

together, shared lives, adventure.

Still unique but not alone, deliberately connected.

Better than the big bang theory when we began anew.

Magnetic attraction created, energy generated,

light emerged to illumine a new us.

My heart keeps moving—as does yours.

My heart keeps moving toward you, and

yours toward me.

It’s a new universe, all ours to invent.

Can the Spirit Intercede?

My soul aches—can that be?

Something with neither form nor substance, yet pain so deep it takes my breath away. I am as a leaf caught in a whirlwind,

Spinning