Love: Pursuit, Pain, and Pleasure

By Alex Thomas

Love, what is it? The author describes it using three P words pursuit, pain, and pleasure. Each word is a book within itself, he captures the pursuit of love at many different angles, the pain of love at different depths, and the pleasure love brings flows from his words. This man of pros takes you through the cycle of love within this collection of poems, so enjoy the emotional ride and see what emotions will be enlightened, for you may surely have an epiphany reading this book of poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469172620

Alex Thomas

Alex Thomas is a data scientist at Indeed. He has used natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning with clinical data, identity data, and now employer and jobseeker data. He has worked with Apache Spark since version 0.9, and has worked with NLP libraries and frameworks including UIMA and OpenNLP.

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Love

PURSUIT, PAIN, and PLEASURE

ALEX THOMAS

Copyright © 2012 by Alex Thomas.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012903535

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-7261-3

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CONTENTS

Dedications

Acknowledgement

Pursuit

A Dream

A Heart’s Story

A Hunter Am I

A Walk To You

Adam Without Eve

Baby

Bride To Be

Chance To Know You

Come To Me

Day Dream

First Sight

From Eyes To Love

Give Me All

Give You My Love

I Am Reaching

I Am Yours

I Thirst

If I Cry Right Now

Love My Love

My Eyes

My Love For You

My Mind My Thoughts

My Words

Please Love Me

Rare Jewel

Soon I Will Be There

Soon We Will Be

The Heavens

The Temperature Of Our Love

To Be First In

Two Different Worlds

What Is It That God Seeks

From Man

Where Can She Be

Woman On The Third Floor

You

Your Thirst

Pain

A Choice

A Moment Alone

A Mother’s Request

Baby Why Is It Over

Beyond Exertion

Blood Upon The Earth

Coldness Of Love

Comeback To Me

Destroyer Of Hearts

Friend

Fall In Love

Don’t Cry

Girl Don’t Leave Me Now

God’s Pain Felt By Man

Her And Me

I Must Leave My Friend

I Apologize For Giving You

The Truth With No Lies

How To Get Pass The Tears

I Have Tried

Lord Help Me Choose

Love Lost But Patiently I Remain

Loving A Woman That Needs

To Grow Up

Love Upon The Ground

Love Once More

My Existence

My Grieving Heart

My Inner Child

My Tears

My Missing Part

My Love Gone Out

No Longer

No Longer A World Apart

Scepter Of My Heart

Unequally Yoked

The Sky Cried For Me

The Bomb

What She Was To Me

Which Are You And The Truth

Why Am I Not Here

Your Love

You Wonder Why It’s Over

You And I

Pleasure

Finally Together

Flower That Was Never Meant

To Be Mine

Guardian Angel

Happiness In Love

Heartfelt Apology

Her

Hope

I Can Honestly Say I Love You

I Pray So

I Wait For Your Kiss

I Will Quench

I Have Broken My Own Heart

It

Lord I Pray

Love Story

Love Unto You

More Than Treasure

My Best Friend

My Friends In India

My Little Ones

My Night

My Sweet Heart

My Words

Please Be Mine

Read My Love And Feel It

Remember Without

Sleep My Lady

Smile

The Depth Of My Love

The Wind

The Woman I Love

There Is Always A Reason

To Smile

This Feeling

To See Our Love

Touch Of God

True To You I’ll Always Be

Visual Teaser

When Tears Flow

Why Not Dream Of You

Your Beauty

Your Smile

Knowledge/

understanding

A Rare Creature

Choice

Essence Of Love

Fare Well

Fated World Or Chosen Destiny

Fire And Rain

Game Of Life

God’s Will

Hello My Sapphire

In Another Land

My Game

My Heart On Every Line

Nothing To Fear

Phase Of Love

Self Entanglement

This Man

To Use A Gift Blindly

Truth In Love

What Kind Of Woman Are You

Humor

A Foreigner’s Thoughts

America How I Miss You

How I Saved My Sandal

Office Hours

Rent

Dedications

This book is dedicated to my late mother (Elaine Whitehead) who helped me become the man I am today, to my loving wife who is and have always been the woman of my dreams, and last my family and friends. I did not forget you all. You all know who you are, thank you for your support.

Acknowledgement

The reason I wrote this collection of poems is because I want the world to hear the power of one’s heart. Even though a heart is broken many times once it has that in which it desires those past pains are only moments in time. To think what is love is quite natural. To ask what is the depth of love and why does it hurt when it goes wrong are valiant questions if you put your heart on the line in search for the answer. I have done just this and I put the answer within the poems that are in this collection. The words that I have used for these poems are words that have come from my heart. Enjoy reading my heart and know that love does exist as God intended it to.

Pursuit

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A Dream

True enough

I think about you enough

To have my mind gone

Is that wrong

What I see

Is 90% make believe

Because it is only a dream

A dream of you and me

Will I know this dream

To be more

Will it ever be reality

I shall see

And then be at peace

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A Heart’s Story

If my heart could write a story the things it would say about these days.

I wake up another day without her by my side

She has never been there

But now

Now knowing her I feel she has always been there

Almost a since of nostalgia

I long for her like a fitness of homesickness

This is what comes over me

I ache for I am his heart

I know he aches

I miss her dearly I do

You may ask how can you miss that which you never knew

And I will ask you

While wearing shades do you feel you really see the sun

That is how I loved before I loved her

I loved but not with the strength, passion, and all my will,

but most of all not with the pureness I have for her

This is how I love her

To think of love I think of her

To think of time I think of how long it will be before she is right before me

To think of a gift I think there is no greater gift a father would give his son than

A bride as lovely as this one

A man has his God

And I see what this man holds most dear

For she falls second only to the Mighty One

I am his heart

He thanks his God for her

He loves her

He cherish her

Knowing and feeling how this man loves this woman

Is a heavy burden

But a blessing in the same

I myself thank God for allowing me to be the heart of this man

To feel a love as precious as this

I know to be rare

For even a farmer must sow before he reaps

And that is what this man does without even seeing her

I hope she cherishes his love as much as I know he cherishes hers

If this is so they shall have much fruit to bear

And a beautiful harvest is there

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A Hunter Am I

I am a hunter

A solitary hunter am I

I am human

I am no beast

I have no Pride

There is no pack needed

When it comes to hunting this prey

You may ask

What is my prey

For man’s prey is much

It could be the world if one sought it

But the world is not what I seek

The game that I am after

I can no longer say game

Because my prize means more to me

Than the hunt

And it is only one that I am after

A one of a kind

One that calls to my mind

I seek a woman if you didn’t already suspect

And these benevolent creatures

Are usually more cunning than I

For I do not use tricks and do my best not to lie

But I only use my beauty and

My eyes

With my smile I hypnotize

Then gently my