A Night on the Moon: I Am Looking for the Questions ...To All the Answers I Have

By Larry Gaddy

Life and self worth is a blessing that cannot be bought at any price. To see through those eyes is to see eternal youth, to grow wise with grace, and to still die young at any age.

Watching a colored leaf fall from a tree... Seeing its dance upon the wind... Hearing the lyrics of a song unsung... Humming the melody yet written... Writing words that bring teardrops... And humbled by the grace of it all...

Some would say he's a visionary; seeing truth beyond the lies, twisting a simple word into emotion.

Question everything He heard so often as a child.

Looking through the stained glass in his minds eye, somewhere within his fantasy a simple child became a poet.

He is a story teller. In his words, you will find a simple truth. Hanging on a single word as a lifeline; letting go to find another. In his world, you feel the little things and the miracles they bring.

Through his eyes, the fairies have been seen, painting sunsets and rainbows.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 10, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467869706

Larry Gaddy

Larry Gaddy was born in Calhoun County Alabama on August 12th, 1968. Growing up in the south, nature was abundant. The leaves change color in the fall, and the snow drapes the ground in December from time to time. With the changing seasons he would find his path into the quietness of truth. He learned to appreciate the simple things; for simple things were all he had. He found solace, deep within the human condition. Reserved and withdrawn, he found truth. Growing up poor taught him that material things are useless, without the purpose of thought.

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First published by AuthorHouse 10/30/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4678-6971-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-6970-6 (ebk)

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Contents

All in Love

Labyrinth of Love

Reminisce

A Million Dreams

As the Sun Goes

Down on Us

Little Things

All Our Years

If I Wait

Battles End

Night Winds

Summer Days and Rainbows

Goodbye

Her Name

Within a Breeze

Seconds Hand

For Us

I Love You

Going Home (Final year)

Lonely Girl

I Tried

The Ones You Love

The Stranger

Message in a Bottle

Understanding Time

Tonight, I Lose Me (Angels fall)

When You Love Me…

Do You Know Love

Twenty Again

Today

Silver and Gold

Temptation

Tender Side of Night

Today Tomorrow Yesterday

Eternal Sleep

The Color of Heather

Faded Roses

Mistress and the Darkness

Already Gone

A million Light years away

Our Time

Almost Home–

The Last Ride

The Two Faces of Love (The epitaph of Death)

Through A Keyhole

Lovers in the Clouds

The Galaxy Called Home (Abell 1835IR1916)

My Ivory Laced

Velvet Love

Bound for Brewster

Who We Truly Are

Me

I surrender

A Love Twisted

One Day With You

A Time to Die

ALIVE

Alone

Remember

Can It Be

Goodnight My Love

Darkest Hour (A Song)

Indecisive

Dark Side of the Moon

I am

Battle for Love (Extended)

Beautiful Yesterday

Constant Ticking

Hopelessly Tender

Diary of Defeat

Finally Found

Dinner Companion

Forever Winter

Falling Hard

Coldest December

A Little Girl

Named Whitney

Leaves of Autumn

Love is a River

Has It All Come

Down to This

Whatever Happened

Room for Me

Sleepless Nights

Endless Love

Underneath a Rainbow

Dearest Mystery

Tonight

Never

The Perfect Words

Dead Man’s Hand

In Every Night Time

(A Carolina Memory)

Far Away Afternoon

If I Could Trade Places

Content

Fabric of Love

Ocean’s Edge

17 Kisses

In December

(You made me cry)

The Tall Grass

Poet’s advice

The Last Kiss

Sunday Drive

Within A Moment

Counting Stars

A Boy’s Dream

Enemies of Cupid

Mazes of My Mind

The Longest Night

Together We Fall 9/11/01

Inspirations

I Know

Autographs

Wishes on Wishless Things

Once we were (Yesterday)

Last Breath

Within breaths and Heartbeats

Naked in the Rain

The Sound of Goodbye

Linen Shirt

Displaced Memory

No More Sunsets or Dreams Dreamt

When I was

Fields of Gold

Down by the sea

Cobblestone Memories

Clouds of Tomorrow

Simplicity

Daisies in Bloom

Even Still

The essence of us

Handwriting on the wall

The Question Why

My Most Beautiful

Wherever You May Be

As a Tear Swells

Nearest Heaven

Daughter-Less

You and I

Once

Lost in transit

A Bottle of Time

Screw her

Bar Side prophecy

So it Goes

A Prayer for the Hopeless

Daddy’s Little Girl

Lilacs & Honey

Empty Finger

It’s Darkest Just

Before Morning

While You Were Sleeping

My Ballerina

A Beautiful Dream

Changing Yesterday

Forever’s End

Sought After

The World Through

My Eyes

My Imaginary Girlfriend… . Is Crazy

Our Time

Whatever Happened

So You Say

On The Horizon

Fate

The Haunting of me

Torment & Time

Can You See

The Picture

Autumn’s Love Song

Sweetest lover

Chapters of Us

Watching You Sleeping

Can’t Get There From Here

Fallen Soldier

What is love

The Last Fairy Tale of Love

No Reply

Yesterday’s Memories

Chasing Rainbows

Close Your Eyes

(that you might see me)

The Book of Love

When Hearts Collide

Tattered Memories of You

I Remember a Time

Between my sheets

Closing Time Liaisons

In the Middle

Wind Blown

(A Connecticut memory)

You in the Rain

A Falling Star This

Side of Heaven

The Valley

On Tuesday

Sweetest Memories

A Lonely Mans Letter

Love and Realism

The Value of Love

A Loan on Yesterday

To Wish Upon a Star

Again

Death of Sir Drummond

A Night in a Dream

The Sweetest Kiss

Waves and Desires

Won Again

Return To Sender

My place in time

Come Back To Me

The Rose

(Seventh of November)

Traces of Us

Suicide of the Mind

You and I

Liars

What poets do best… write sad songs

Wayward Thoughts

Traitors Gate

(A Lovers Time to Die)

Once She Was a

Friend of Mine

The Moon hangs

in the Distance

For Sara

(Because I found your note today from yesterday)

A Thing Called Love

(The endless pursuit of)

SUPERMAN

A Cold December

(Illusions of Love)

Picture in My Mind

English Roses

Labyrinth of Time

Older Now

Love is Elemental

A letter to someone

I love

My Dearest Maria

Water’s Edge

Wonderful Yesterday

The Reason Why

My fantasy

Shadow of Love

Here With Me

Time and Roses

For every lover a season

Alone at Low Tide

Poets Do Cry

(A Poem for Mona Lisa)

The Crown of Discontent (It’s going to be alright)

Sifting Sands

The Truth of the

Poet of Lies

The God of Lies

My Beautiful view

Chivalry is Dead

Edge of Life

Renaissance Memory

Another World

Circumstance

Washed Away

Wicked Wind

The Return

Wet Dream

Midnight’s Drive

Darkest Desire

A Knight’s Wish

New York Memory

The Storm of Discontent

The Storm of life

I am the Knight

Self Absorbed

Promises

What is Left to Say

For Everything

(A Purpose)

Amber Instead

Friendship

Asian Flower

Found in a Kiss

A Farewell

Letter to Jeanette

Rhythm of love

While You Lay Sleeping (For my Mother)

A Letter to Debbie

(never sent)

Sands of the Hourglass

Whatever Happened to Love

Born Dying

Goodbye

Another Day in Paradise

A thought I had

in the Rain

An Act of Falling

Vows of Night

Shadows of My Mind

Gone For Good

Tariff to Time

When the Rains Come

Dreamt Alone

A Memory to Trade

My Sunset

A Heart So Cold

The space between

(truth and lies)

The Picture Kept

What if

Nameless

Tender kisses

(This side of suicide)

This

(The meadow of my mind)

I watched a sunset today. for the first time since yesterday… .

This ones for you

The listless

About The Author

I would like to dedicate this book to some of my dearest friends

Lovers and inspirations

Those that were there in the moments that I needed human touch

A shoulder to cry on or just someone to listen to my twisted point of view on life

Jayne, you were a treasured find and I shall always thank time and fate for lending me you. Without you I literally wouldn’t be here today

I owe you my life, my soul. I will never repay you in this time.

Olga, for always being there through the good and bad times you are my closest friend. You have always been there for me when I needed you.

We never shared a sunset nor wrote our names in the sands of time

but I suspect somewhere in an alternate universe I am yours and you are mine…

Jamie, my little Brother

You didn’t make it this far with me. Time took you for reasons unknown

But you will always linger on in my mind

Once when our time found us together, you were my truest inspiration

and the first face I want to see at the end of me.

For my Dearest Mother

You told me once you couldn’t finish Falling in a dream

because it made you cry. And as you didn’t live long enough to turn

the first page of this book, A Night on the Moon

I am sending you a copy to Heaven

I Love and miss you so

Cheri, you were my first and only true love. Although we were lost,

something lasting in my fantasy world was found.

Thank you

Kaley, my Beautiful Daughter. The years have passed and left us

but you will always be Daddy’s little girl in your cotton

nightgown that smelled of baby powder and you.

You are my most memorable!

Hug and Kiss goodnight

I love you… Sweetest of dreams

Sara, you will probably never read this

but you will always have a special place in my heart

You gave me a light in my darkest hour

and it still burns today

Deb, you and I will always have Connecticut memories

Manhattan and the midnight Metro out of the city

that we almost missed. Our time is etched in my soul

Jeanette, my Mocha love

What can I say that you haven’t heard

I am almost over you

Ruth, thanks to you I got a chance to leave my past behind me

You found me the link to my past. I owe you a debt I could

never repay. So this is my I.O.U.

Lydia, you are my renaissance fair, the hippie I see running through remnants of Woodstock with flowers in your long flowing hair. You were my

Blessing in disguise. Glad I found you, my wayward

mermaid in a dream

Heather, for the time you spent in the pages of me

The voice of reason

would try to wake me

But I am somewhere

in a dream

All in Love

When life seems like a dream

and time is after you

When the sun is going down

and your stars are out of view

Close your eyes with me

and for this moment

hold me there

Where the ocean

meets the sea

And all in love

is fair

Labyrinth of Love

My mind it goes so fast

There are so many things

I want to say to you

My true friends

they don’t last

But my virtual ones do

I am good at goodbyes

I have said them for so long

It’s almost cruel

But the lover in me died

so long ago

But when I write I can find

my starry eyes on a page again

I can remember what it was like

to be nineteen with my girlfriend

worried only about gas money

to get to the beach

With a blanket

The night

The moon

and her

waiting for a sunrise

that I hoped

would never come

And when you read me

my poetry

I pray you find solace

Because we all know

true love eludes

So I wanted to say to you

I am a dreamer

I am a poet

and that’s what poets do

We have our seasons

The colors change

as leaves do in Autumn

I want to fall in love

and sail away on the sea

drop anchor way out there

under the moon and stars

and dive into the waves naked

just you and me

Making love on the deck

under the oceans mist

I am alive again

with you

for the first time

in such a long time

What of you

Do you feel me knocking

Will you let me in

to this labyrinth

of love

Reminisce

Have I told you lately

time after time

Does the memory waiver in your mind’s eye

Savoring kisses lost

days spent at a sinners cost

hanging on the cross of love

Forbidden fruit is the touch of you.

Silken skin and tasteless thoughts of us

Waves washing in on forgotten shores.

I don’t know how to love anymore

It seems in time the forget me not’s

Become forget me often’s

And the days turn to nights too soon

for dreamers to sleep and pretenders

pretend to understand

The molecules in the dust of us

in their words are lies

in their eyes are distrust

And the fakeness in their eyes

are noticed by the few who hear the chimes

and tick tocks tocking become dear friends of mine

Recognized by their constant sound

and my teardrops taste of you

and my memories of us are better now

That I’ve added my truth

So listen with your ears to what I am saying

but not with my tongue

Then maybe somehow

without language we can finally

communicate

Our I love you’s

A Million Dreams

I just want you to know

I miss your smile

I miss the way you kiss

the way your hair smells

the way it feels

to put my arms around you

Your eyes as black as night

a million dreams

mine have found there

Your voice always calmed me

when I was roused

Your body the one desire

following me all the while

These years have passed with remorse

for I did not have you

to love me

anymore

Now it all makes sense

those lonely days and nights

seemed never ending

the tears that fell in vain

the prayers that went unheard

when I asked God

to bring you

back to me

Yet somewhere in a lost whisper

someone heard

a convincing word

of how much

I love you

Sending you back again

forever to me

I love you

As the Sun Goes

Down on Us

What was the reason, for our tender season

the way you look at me, makes me smile

surrounded by reminders of you

I am falling Into what was once something

I regret the bad times, the arguments over nothing

The cobblestone beneath our feet

walking hastily as to rid ourselves of each other

Looking back It makes me laugh a little

but then I wanted to cry

I just wanted the perfect end

to a perfect day, the perfect us

but some little thing always came in for the kill

Leaving the night in shambles

arguing over women that I did not see

or men you did not know

We were a perfect couple

we were shadows in a sunset

when we began we were special

before the accusations flew

I was with you at the time

shared moments we had a few

That was all I could give of me

yet you chastised me for the lending

nothing was never enough

even under a purple sky on a lovely day

we somehow gave it away

You love me, you have told me so

and I do love you, you know that’s truest in my touch

Still love means little If not much

and allotted days are all I have for you

you took them for a time in cherish

I gave them in want of more

yet this is me, this is how I allot my time

You assume it was biding time with friends of mine

but I cannot give all my days away to one or the other

I am torn that way, I am lost that way

I am unique