Eros: Penultimate Love

By Paul Chrisstarlon Wesselhöft

Her love to me

Is higher than poetry,

Deeper than a memory.

It is, you see,

Imprinted for eternity.

So let it be.

Paul Chrisstarlon Wesselhft

Paul Chrisstarlon Wesselhft is just like all of us. On his spiritual journey through life, he has experienced frustrations and disappointments, joys and triumphs, and the heartache and sorrow of finding and then losing love.

In a volume of thematic poetry, Wesselhft shares verse written since age fifteen that candidly reflects on childhood, adolesence, adulthood, and into the final years of age. From his search for soda pop bottles alongside the road when he was a boy to innocent contemplations about holding a girls hand to the magnetism of a females mouth, Wesselhfts poems reflect on lifes greatest moments and biggest challenges while offering a gentle reminder that we are all here on Earth to love and learn.

Eros: Penultimate Love shares one mans lyrical expressions on a life well lived as he chronologically reflects on all he has embraced, experienced, and overcome to become the man he is today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Aug 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781480850002

Paul Chrisstarlon Wesselhöft

Paul Chrisstarlon Wesselhöft is a Vietnam era veteran and retired army chaplain who served in the Airborne, 1st Ranger Battalion, 75th Infantry, and in combat in the first Persian Gulf War, Desert Shield, and Desert Storm. He formerly served six terms in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and is currently a Representative of Oklahoma in the national legislature of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Wesselhöft is the author of The Redfeather Pentalogy.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-4998-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-4999-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-5000-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017911995

Archway Publishing rev. date: 9/13/2017

To Judy (Albright) Wesselhöft,

my loving wife of forty-one years

Introduction

T his volume of thematic poetry represents a spiritual journey, a chronological progression from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and into old age. It portrays the frustrations, disappointments, and glory of seeking, losing, and finding that special love.

Almost all of the poems were written during my fifteenth through thirtieth years. A few express sensual qualities, and therefore the collection is appropriate for adults.

Contents

Ultimate Love

A Gift Not Given

The Tree House

Hands Never Touched

To Touch a Hand

A Festival of Art

Side by Side

Bre

Bellibone

Pulchritude

Will It Be?

Perchance

She Hugged Me

Heart Words

She Is Far Away

I Could Love Her

In a Dream

Words Fall Flat

Aria

A Search of Soul

Unlocking the Heart

When the Heart Is Won

What Is It about the Mouth?

Her Lips

Rainmaker

A Poet’s Love

A Letter for Vianna

A Declaration

So Let It Be

The Lonely Traveler

So Margaret

Waning

And to Love Her Now

Kobecka

Illusive Electra

To What Could Have Been

For Love, I Pray

In Weakness

When the Heart Falls

And So It Is

Trust Betwixt Us

If Hearts Could Speak in Tongues

A Thing of Desire

Love Oppressed

Lonely Heart, a Lover

Ritual of Asking

Nor Is the Heart of Flesh

Spit on My Ego

For These Many Days

Love Dies a Death

A Love for Sharing

Sonya

To Live for Love

The Dance

Sweet Dreams

Doing It

Maranglyn

Through All the Years

Tender Surrender

Marital Decision

Wife

Broken Chastity

I Am in You

Love Womb

Bethany

Love, the Tender Nature

You Are My Church

Love Is Good

So How Do I Love Thee?

Wrinkled Hands

These Were the Hands

To View Her Hands

Lovona

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Ultimate Love

U ltimate love is divine,

The highest expression of