Love, Lust, Loved Laughter, Lessons: What The "L" Do You Know?

By Richard McPherson

Welcome to this book of Poetry: Love, Lust, Loved, Laughter and Lessons. It is my fervent hope and prayer that you will find some interesting in these poems and perhaps learn some life lessons in reading the rhyming poetry that has been more than a two decade adventure for me. Most all poems have been experienced by me in actual relationships or in deep emotional thoughts on events and experiences in life.
I would suggest the way to read this book is to identify your feelings and find a corresponding poem that exhibits similar thoughts to assist you in going through your own feelings of Love, Lust or Loved relationships continuing also with the Laughter and Lessons chapters. Prayerfully, I hope you will learn the lessons on a deep and existing level. Perhaps you will not reserve the need or desire to experience the lesson if you read and understand the reasoning that led me to the written conclusions illustrated in these chapters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543960761

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WELCOME to this book of Poetry: Love, Lust, Loved, Laughter and Lessons. It is my fervent hope and prayer that you will find some interesting ideas in these poems and perhaps learn some life lessons in reading the rhyming poetry that has been more than a two decade adventure for me. Most all poems have been experienced by me in actual relationships or in deep emotional thoughts on events and experiences in life.

I would suggest the way to read this book is to identify your feelings and find a corresponding poem that exhibits similar thoughts to assist you in going through your own feelings of Love, Lust or Loved relationships continuing also with the Laughter and Lessons chapters. Prayerfully, I hope you will learn the lessons on a deep and existing level. Perhaps you will not reserve the need or desire to experience the lesson if you read and understand the reasoning that led me to the written conclusions illustrated in these chapters.

I started with the inclination of naming this book: "What the L do you know? Of course referring to the beginning letter of each chapter and recalls an old crude statement known as [What the hell do you know?] On some level this appeals to the fun loving side of me as a fun loving story and joke teller.

You may ask what are my qualifications to write these poems and to present them to you, the reader, as lessons and funny experiences from which you may learn life lessons. I believe age doesn’t qualify anyone for anything other than aching joints, unstable bowel movements, loss of friends, loves and probably unmet needs and dreams.

But on the other hand what such great memories, exciting experiences and valuable lessons that have been learned in costly, hard learned adventures and mistakes over my seven decades of life.

As a very spiritual and religious follower of Jesus Christ I have read many of the great spiritual leaders of the past two thousand years. I developed a personal philosophy concerning my earthly existence. I feel and think that as a heavenly tiny spiritual being having the ability to view the entire past as well as the future from heaven and knowing full well all the trials and task I would need to contend with in my earthly human existence. I chose my own parents, I fully knew what I would be asked to endure, to face and what trials I’d contend with daily throughout my life. What makes me a success is that I’ve met all of those challenges with at least a fair attitude and appreciation for the experience and the lessons learned. Hopefully I have been able to do this with a tongue in cheek manner of happiness and joy. For a more complete understanding perhaps you’d better understand me and my journey if you take a brief look at my attached biography and the life experiences paper titled, I know this man:.

Again my hope is that you will learn and grow, as have I. Most importantly to use a quote from Dr. Wayne Dyer Don’t die with your music inside you.

Love

A Jilted Lovers Lament

A kiss of your lips

Anticipation

A special light

As we lay here side by side…

A vision of innocence

Big Dumb Yellow Dog Syndrome

Dread fills my heart

Elevated Spirit

Eyes Dilate to Engulf my Soul

Finally Surrendered

Five Minutes More

Fresh Snow and a New Love

Hopeful In Love

How do I love you let me show the ways

If

If I Gave You My Heart.

In My Eyes and In My Heart

In the early dark of dawn

Is she gone?

It’s Love If……

Knew you before…….

Loves Definite Persistence

Love to Discover

Loving Even More

Missing You

Missing you before you leave

No Lessons Learned

No sweet wondering words of wisdom

Not my mother

One present for Christmas

Only Love Matters

Ready to Love

Renaissance Hotel Dallas Texas.

Renewed Love

The Innocence of You

There You Are.

The Wedding

Three silver feathers

Three Times Denied

To Kill The Dark

Touch me.

We Know

Went to your house

You are the subject

Your Harbor of Tranquility

Lust

Anticipation of you

A shallow empty feeling or

Cuddling

Embrace the Dark Side

I kissed the lipstick

I long to taste your surprise

I Whispered

Just a simple kiss

Knew you before

Listening, Laughing, Loving Au’ Natural

Love Making Buddy Or

My Bed Is Cold and Lonely

Sensual Rendezvous

Succumb to the Desires of the Flesh

The meaning of this?

Two o’clock in the morning

Your faint aroma

Loved

A dozen red roses

A heart just broke and fell

An after life after a life of love

Damn Fine!

Destined for aloneness?

Forgive, Forgive

Here lays Richard McPherson 1:00 A.M.

I Envy the Rose

In the arms of another man

It only takes three states to get over you.

Love and lost by two

Memories

Picked you up

Memories of you

Playful little girl

Pure joy

Stale Heart

Tears for the living

Them

Understand

Wanting to Settle

Where are you now

Would you want to know?

You Creep!

You’ve gone away

Laughter

Accusing Fingers

Dr. Seuss’ Recipe

Fingers of the hand

Hanging On

Internet road kill

Love the laughter

Obituary, Here Lies…

The Ecstasy of Rejection

Lessons

A Christmas Spirit Wish

A Flower beyond Compare.

Am not a Social Group

As a man thinketh

A smile upon your face

Beauty in the lighted night

Because we knew we would and could.

Can’t ask you to change

Can’t bury the dead

Change in life

Christmas Prayer

Crooked Halo

Die and Be Here

Don’t know what we don’t know,

Drunken Evil Words

Finding life’s codes

Flight in the crimson night

Four little girls

Getting road ready

Give love up to fate

Hanging On

Herold Road, West Virginia, 26601-8878

If you knew who walked beside you……

Instinctive Survival Knowledge

It is up to us! A holiday prayer.

I wanna be your hero

I wish you knew me when….

Languages of Love

Lessons of love still burn brightly

Like missed ships

Lilies of the Valley

Literary Excellence

Love has lost its way

Love the laughter

Master of his Destiny?

My friend Joe

Night consumes my shadow

Perceived Guilt

Put away childish things.

Retirement

Say the words now

Scorn of a jilted lover

Spirit, Goals swing like a pendulum

Spirit touched my soul

Temporary diversions

Temporary Sexual Magnetism versus Chemistry for Life

The exactness of coincidence

The joys I use to dream

The magic of Merlin

The Queen died today

These women these girls

Ultimate enlightenment

Waiting to go

Wants and Needs

Washed in the Blood of the Lamb

A Jilted Lovers Lament

Do you ever think of me?

How am I doing, where I may be?

Do you ever sit and ponder?

Of how we may have grown, ever wonder?

Remember our dreams and new aspirations?

Did I continue to conquer after our separation?

For a moment does your heart pang in grief?

Knowing we will never meet, not even brief?

In your sad times do you for a second ever wish of me?

To provide you a safe place to rest, to just be?

Do you long for my gentle sensuous touch

As I long and miss you so very much?

In the dark stormy and lonely nights

Do you fear you lost the one in fright?

Do you now smile and lust after another

After the fun and excitement with me as your lover?

And when with another not so proficient a lover

Do you crave to be with me under the covers?

I want you to know I am the jilted lover

For you I long as anyone could ever longs for another.

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A kiss of your lips

Since the first awkward stolen kiss

Rushed, missed and in mid-sentence.

I have longed for your deep passionate kiss

Lingering, intimate and way pass just friendship.

The kiss that ignites the flames of youthful lovers

Soft, sensuous, deep, engulfing almost smothering.

The kiss of passion, knowing where it leads, that takes our breath away.

As when we realize the unfolding, the surprised ending of a mystery play.

To visualize and to know the outcome of a single passionate kiss

That sensual, visual, energized engagement leading to love making bliss.

To experience, the essence, the wonderment of your love.

Touching, tasting, teasing, tantalizing, you trembling like a baby dove.

Savoring the moment of our rapture, we’re united, becoming one.

Experiencing the escalating expectancy of the passion to come.

Eventually to lay in a satisfied sleepy slumber

Content in the arms of each other, our lover.

Feeling alive, loved, linked together in ever positive emotion.

Our hearts swollen and raging in hopeful commotions.

Full of the connectedness of another loving human being.

Completing the circle of life like the yin and yang mandarin.

Have the stars of our birth led us to this final relationship?

Were the stars aligned eons ago in our cosmic consciousness?

What ever the reason, the stars, the spirits, the chances that be.

I praise them for bringing me to you and you to me.

I now accept the challenge to see where this will lead

Open, truthful, no baggage to claim, I plead.

Be gentle with my heart, it’s been bruised, battered, skinned, torn and more

Let me know as soon as you know if we are a go or no more.

I am but a simple man

But I will do all that I can.

To love, honor, support and cherish in every way.

Until death or you tell me to please go away.

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A special light

Did I know you in another world

A timeless point in space?

Perhaps as a previous friend, relative, a spirited other,

From such a very special place.

To arrive here, seeing you, my heart in a flutter

Wanting only to plead my case.

My case for having, wanting to love another

Excitement written all over my face.

Ageless connection, pheromones ignited, I shutter

Losing track, boyish in your presence, this place.

Try to speak whimsically, knowing, but yet I stammer and stutter

Confused, a lost but remembered connection to you, your face.

I see in you a special light, causing my soul to flutter

Reminding me of the heavenly light of an Angels face.

I’ve emerged into your light, shedding night’s cover

I stand heart exposed, with you, face to face.

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A vision of innocence

The vision lingers softly in my mind

Of a gentler perfect innocence that shines.

The vision of a young human spirit as it grows

Coming to life revealing and showing, truly God knows.

Namasta, celebrates the growing god-like within,

The beauty, freshness of a heavenly spirit as it becomes human.

The innocence that shines and sparkles in hair and eyes.

The trust and love that emanates, as simply as a sigh.

From the innocents of a youthful girl like stance.

To the lifting of a garment hem to hide from as adult’s glance

Baring all beneath that certainly makes an adult wince

In their stoic, over calloused, total self-embarrassment.

The beauty of the loving well adjusted innocence of this child

Ignites deep in us wishes and longings we’ve not had in a while.

To again, for an instant, be at one with this god-like spirit

Is to touch the face, to be in the grace of God’s own spirit.

Enjoying the unconditional trusting love of a precious child.

Is magnified glory to God as seen in a child’s smile.

Coming un-abandoned to sit precariously on my knee

This innocence, to share, touch and be, also heals me.

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Anticipation

Anticipation down deep in my anxious soul

Wanting someone to share my life, whole.

Excited to again think of feelings in terms of together

In a loving long lasting relationship forever.

I’m cautioning myself to go slow

Although I know I want to be bold.

Burst forth; overwhelm her, with all my potential

But again I say, slowly, keep it low key and simple.

All these years of trying to improve myself, become better.

Being the best I can be, going forward, hopefully better forever.

Read the self help books and all about interpersonal skills

In hopes and anticipation of being what you need and to fulfill your will.

Worried, as time speeds by in my aging process,

That time will also diminish my sexual prowess.

I want my friend, lover, wife to be totally satisfied

Not having to rely on me to tell her how it use to be, so fine.

So, I’m told time