Lovers and Other Strangers: A Poetic View of the Male/Female Relationship

By Marvin Dozier

Marvin Dozier has an innate creative ability. He is quick to point out that "the male/female relationship is like a wheel in constant motion; always moving, but sometimes going nowhere". He has created personalized poems for the individual or couple; which truly reads as though they themselves have written it. He has a keen insight into the feelings within the many people for whom he created a poem. This experience, in combination with his two practiced Masters; one in Social Work; the other in Human Services; has provided him with a well-rounded understanding of people he engages. His book is a compilation of selected pieces of original work; spanning over four decades. He examines the Male/Female relationship through a series of poems, prose, and essays. He presents a unique understanding of the various stages and phases within the female/male relationship; writing from both perspectives of the correlation; exposes the ups, downs, love, joy, anger, hopes, dreams, fantasies, truth, lies, deceit, honesty, drama, stability; changes, bitter and sweet, failures and successes. It is experiential and imagination. His feelings are spilled upon the pages, for the most part, from an experiential nature. He carefully portrays the relationships, which - at times - make you look for the tear-stains upon the paper; or causing you to look to the sky for the rainbows he writes about; or the roses in the garden or vase. He takes you into yourself and allows you to clearly identify with that of which he writes . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479795208

Marvin Dozier

Marvin Dozier has an innate creative ability. He is quick to point out that “the male/female relationship is like a wheel in constant motion; always moving, but sometimes going nowhere”. He has created personalized poems for the individual or couple; which truly reads as though they themselves have written it. He has a keen insight into the feelings within the many people for whom he created a poem. This experience, in combination with his two practiced Masters; one in Social Work; the other in Human Services; has provided him with a well-rounded understanding of people he engages. His book is a compilation of selected pieces of original work; spanning over four decades. He examines the Male/Female relationship through a series of poems, prose, and essays. He presents a unique understanding of the various stages and phases within the female/male relationship; writing from both perspectives of the correlation; exposes the ups, downs, love, joy, anger, hopes, dreams, fantasies, truth, lies, deceit, honesty, drama, stability; changes, bitter and sweet, failures and successes. It is experiential and imagination. His feelings are spilled upon the pages, for the most part, from an experiential nature. He carefully portrays the relationships, which—at times—make you look for the tear-stains upon the paper; or causing you to look to the sky for the rainbows he writes about; or the roses in the garden or vase. He takes you into yourself and allows you to clearly identify with that of which he writes…

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Rev. date: 03/29/2013

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Promise of a Fisherman

The Gift

Woman

Man

Peace of Mind

Autumn Thoughts

Making Up

Loving You

Marry Me

Getting Married

Married

Quiet Answers

Uncertainty

Thinking of You

Promises

New Beginnings

February Fourteenth

Imperfections

Where Is the Love

In My Baby’s Eyes

Gaffed

Upon the Bottom Line

Quiet Anger

You Dropped a Bomb on Me

Conversations with God

Sweet Surrender

Being Without You

In Search Of

Utopian Love

Proclamation of Love

Love’s Awareness

Dying Love

Trust is Missing

You Are

Time’s Too Short

Magic

Hi Fashion

Space Traveler

Oh Love

My Angel of the Sun

Days of Wine and Roses

Free Indeed

Freedom

A Letter of Decision

Love in Doubt

Confessions

The Ring

Take a Sad Song and Sing It

Shaky Ground

Night Light

Cleopatra

Roses, Weeds, and Flowers

Mind Reading Mind Blowing

Thief of Passion

Ego Tripping

More Illusions

Melancholy

Please Explain

The McAnn Fan

Give Me Something Real

Is This That Thing Called Love

To My Imperfect Love

Liberated!

A Secret Fear of Love

An Opened Letter

Just Before the Memories

Believing Realities

Ode to a Dying Love

My Turn to Cry

What is the Difference between Want and Need

The Brand New Me

I Wanted You to Know

Togetherness

Being With You

Death Without Love

Springtime

A Warm Summer

Rainbows

Love’s Stormy Seas

Games

A Lady Like Mom

Reflections

A Point of View

I Just Thought I’d Say

Come Go With Me

When Love is New

Oh No Not Love Again

Yearning for Childhood Days

Freedom is…

Independence Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Heartbeat—Open Letter to a Lost Love

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all of the men

       Who have felt they have said all there is to say

And not being quite sure, of what was said…

It is further, dedicated to all of the women

       Who have thought they had heard everything to hear

But not being quite sure

       If they heard what they thought they heard

Or uncertain, as to just what was said…

And finally, dedicated to those who have not heard, nor said

       anything

       While there is so much to hear and say

                     See the soul of a man, and, the love of a woman…

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Promise of a Fisherman

And when you cry

Just close your eyes

And think of me

And then you’ll smile

Know all the while

Right there with you I’ll be

And love goes on

In times of storm…

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The Gift

I give to you an anthology

       Of romance dressed in poetry

              To tell the world what you mean to me

To give of love, as you have given

       To experience joy, this side of heaven

              I guess one would call you a love maven

You are the sun that shines each day

       You give me warmth as I go my way

              Your love abounds as the sun shines its ray

You are the stars, within the skies

       The glow of love sparkles in your eyes

              I want the world to realize

That you are everything to me

       My sun, my stars, my eternity

              And all because you let it be…

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Woman

I thought I knew a lady once

       Who filled my heart with joy

For more than reasons I did think

       Than she a girl, and I, a boy

She spoke with sureness, confidence

       Of my friendship, she found to be

And of how I filled her life with joy

       Conversely, she to me

Our nights were filled with pleasure

       And likewise were our days

Oh how we cared, and shared so much

       In so many splendid ways

She laughed, she loved; she lived for me

       For her, I did in kind

I was all that she thought of

       She stayed on my mind

I thought I knew that lady once

       Who gave all she could give

But I did lose that lady to

       Something called Women’s Lib . . .

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Man

Am I no different than you

       Pursuing happiness, envisioning dreams

                     Am I no different

Do you not feel I want the same things

       Joy, Love, Affection

                     Do you think I am abnormal

The same sensations I give to you

       Do you not feel that I need them too

                     Is love so different for you

Can you not understand, this man

       Beneath all of the cover

              Do you not see and feel emotions

Emotions running over the edge

       Over the edge of reality

              Do you not see me drifting

Drifting to a love within love

       Can you not feel my heartbeat

              Pounding with anxiety, desire

I am all that you seek

       I am all that you need

              I am… man…

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Peace of Mind

I thought that I should seek to find

       The answer to sweet peace of mind

I thought it lay within money

       Therein I’d find security

              That would be peace of mind for me

I thought that once income was here

       I’d need someone, it with to share

To give me warmth on winter nights

       To share a love, and make things right

                     A lovely one within my sight

A house, a home, by my hands made

       To watch trees grow, provide me shade

Two children to extend my joy

       A lovely girl, a handsome boy

              Whose eyes light up like Christmas toys

Where was it that peace of mind lay

       What would make it here, every day

How could I gear my mind to find

       That one ingredient for peace of mind

                     That was not akin to mankind

I searched, I dreamed I sought to find

       That solace and that peace of mind

To find how life would treat me kind

       Enhance my sight, not make me blind

              Never leaving rainbows behind

Searching high in dreams above

       Seeking out that lasting love

For the warm serenity

       That would always be close to me

              My warm and true, sweet destiny…

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Autumn Thoughts

The gentle breeze, blows through the trees

                     Their tops in the wind bend

It ruffles the thought, of what Fall brought

                     A new love with which to blend

I counted the years, of falling tears

                     Again, and again, and again

Before this true love, from the heavens above

                     Released me from the pain

As the golding leaves, depart from the trees

                     In each I see your eyes

Your eyes full of splendor, as my soul surrenders

                     To a love, before unrealized

The beautiful blends, gold, green, and orange

                     Cast gently upon the ground

As in perfect array, on this early Fall day

                     Reminiscing of new love I’ve found…

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Making Up

How brilliant is the sun; which glistens in your hair

How soft and full of body it is; as you hold me near

As though carefully laid by Mother Nature; each strand

falls into place

I marvel at its richness; as it falls across your face

Your well molded forehead; is graced by your manicured

brow

I notice the true care given; as you hold me now

Below the brow your eyelids; shaded pink and blue

Foundation laid so carefully; you knew just what to do

So faint is the mascara; upon each single lash

Separate and made longer; without your being rash

Above you have used eyeliner; a navy sort of blue

To enhance your big, bright brown eyes; the truest part of

you

The two-tone blush over your cheekbones; magenta and

mandarin red

So finely blended together; you coordinate with your head

The sheer translucent powder; keeps you fresh all day

Your beauty so all aglow; I am breathless when I say

Your lips so softly painted; with graduated pinks

A thin persimmon outline; it makes me stop to think

So rich is my perception; and richer yet your style

Passion Pink and orchid colors; embrace your very smile

Your smile lights up the daytime; adds brilliance to the night

Your sensuality plays with me; you have done a job so right

You must have taken so much time; in coordinating hues

I thought to let you know I know; in a poem written for you…

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Loving You

The one very good thing

about loving you;

Is that each day

I get the opportunity;

To love you more;

than I did the day before…

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Marry Me

My love for you has grown so much; over the last few years

With other hearts, I have lost touch; your love diminish

fears

If I must count the one thing; that is constant within my life

That would be, the love you bring; as I seek you for a wife

My love for you is cultivated; with just one thought in mind

That it is all motivated; by the good in you, that I find

Your goodness glows in the darkest night; when I’m not by

your side

Your love shines as the brightest light; I want you for my

bride

Your warmth and tender kindness; is all that you ever show

To temptation you give blindness; my dimmer of the rainbow’s

glow

The generousness which you exude; is felt by me each day

You always manage to include me; in each prayer that you

pray

My love for you continues to grow; with each breath that I

take

The world can see me all aglow; glowing brightly, for love’s

sake

I will continue to confide; in you all that is nice

My love for you, I’ll never hide; in having you as a wife…

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Getting Married

You are the morning sun to me

       Shining brightly, so radiantly

Keeping me warm every day

       Showing me love in every way

It is no surprise to me

       The way you love, and to what a degree

How you do things, oh so right

       Like kissing me warmly, and holding me tight

The way you see me through your eyes

       You keep the truth, within your smile

I love you Darling, in every way

       I’ll keep you ‘til my dying day

Somehow the angels know above

       That you and I are filled with love

Upon our knees each day we pray

       That God will always guide the way

Our marriage will take place real soon

       It’s only three months until June

June 25th our wedding will be

       To last throughout eternity…

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Married

I never thought that I could be

       Wrapped up in love so endlessly

But it is true I must confess

       In you, I love the very best

So glad these words I can say

       Without it being Valentine’s Day

Each day of the year let me say to you

       That you sure make my gray skies blue

I never thought to love this way

       So complete, I’m bound to stay

Forever in love, compelled to be

       In love with you, ‘til eternity

My love for you it does not end

       It seems I have a lasting friend

And you too have a friend in me

       Fulfilling our sweet destiny

I thought once more I’d never love

       Until God sent you from above

Because inside, He knows my heart

       And I would never from you part

He knows that you are good for me

       And promised us eternity

If we took seriously our vows

       Continue to feel as we feel now

Upon this page I will draw a close

       With endless love that heaven knows

And