Raven: To Love a Woman

By Paul Marguglio

Being in love can take you to amazing heights, but when it ends it can drop you in a bottomless pit of gloom. Yet we live on, burying this desire to relive that last embrace, that last kiss, and in the quiet moments, we dream of a perfect love and close our eyes to sleep.

This book of poetry spans roughly a fifty-five-year time period of experiences with love and relationships and reflecting the culture of the times and beliefs influenced by the silver screen and films such as Casablanca, Second Hand Lions, and many in between. Struggling with disillusioned certainty of forever-lasting love, it is finalized in a sphere of regrets and missed opportunity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504339148

Paul Marguglio

Paul Marguglio is a retired engineer and soldier living in Orlando, Florida. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1944 and also lived in New Jersey for a time. He worked for Westinghouse Power Generations, Lockheed Martin Missiles, and Disney World—designing the third generation Omni-Bus for EPCOT. He joined the army in 1963 and enlisted in the Navy in 1982, becoming a military instructor. His last tours of duty were in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. In 2004, he was a combatant at age sixty and was sent home to sip margaritas on a beach. His life now revolves around fast cars, motorcycles, and a battle with an inconvenient illness.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 08/28/2015

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Something About Humor

Homer

Message For A Recorder

Unstressed Not

The Computer

Workstation

Halloween

Oval Room

The Haiku (Hokku)

Follow Me

Something About Love and War

Second Chance

Inverse Melody

My Love Will

Did You Know

If Love

Just A Dream

Star Lost

Imperfection?

Let Me

Softest Hour

With Love

Glass Hour

Change

Be My Valentine

Shining Star

Whisper by My Window

Sleight of Heart

Juliet

Valentine

Your Beauty

To The Devils Dismay

When Love Dies

Misplaced

To Love You Not

Play It Again

Mademoiselle

Just You and Me

First Kiss

Again First Kiss, (ten years after)

Each Time You Leave

IF

A Christmas Wish

Imagine

Not Alone

Waiting

Waiting Still

This Voice

Tear On My Window

For your love

Suborn

Never Say Good-bye

Significant

Love Again

If I Kissed Your Cheek

A Thought

Parting Wish

Alone

A Birthday Wish

No Matter

Empty Place

You Passed Me By

Love Is A Star

Parting Soul

Again Passion

Reopened Book

Again This Love

Fallible

Succumb

Deliverance

The Conflict

The Struggle

Breaking Free

RED BANK

Christmas Wish 2001

The War After

China Beach, China Doll

Battle Stress

The Mask

Inside The Mask

Warfare, CBR

Unwanted

Haunting Cry

Not Knowing

Way War

Importance

Christmas Wish 2003

Dreams Undone

Something About Sentiment

Terminus, One Summer Night

Love, Life, Hope and Time

Silly Sunset

Parting

Christmas Wish 2004

Footprints

Washed Away

Forever Gone

Christmas Wish 2005

Clouds

Father to Son

Once a Dream

What

Learning

Sad Day

Natural

Seasons

Sorrow

Flying

Once Young

Look

Nova

No Space

Christmas Wish 2006

Stone White

To Look On As High

Christmas Wish 2007

Reflection, I

Reflection, II

A Better Way

Christmas Wish 2008

Forgotten

Journeys’ End

Time To Rest

Christmas Wish 2010

To my sweet Angel;

Christmas Wish 2010

To Late The Rain

Blind

Christmas Wish 2011

The Sunset and the Sea

Dedicated to Love,

for to be in love is to experience every emotion.

Acknowledgements

I want to thank Susan Barton and Michele Sloan for their support and encouragement.

I would also like to thank, Raven Ward who showed me how to care again. To share my thoughts and written verse. To remove my protective armor. To take a chance, that to feel isn’t the same as feeling. She taught me that it was okay to let go the pain of the past, to live, to care, to trust. To trust your heart and most of all, to love a woman.

Introduction

As I held an old book of poems, pieces of the cover began to crumble in my hands.

Its tattered pages yellow from many years upon a shelf, longed to tell its tales of humor and sadness, peace and war, sentiment and reflection, love and love lost. Unlike my writings there is an end within these bindings and its inspiration will only last as long as the pages remain intact.

Though unfinished, my writings are a story of the encounters of two hearts cheated of eternal love. Yet there is a hope for a happy ending and it remains as a guiding light for words that may yet fill the still empty pages. These words, meaningless to some, may have particular value only to those who have shared similar life experiences. Even though all that I have written can be left to interpretation, it matters only that you alone understand what I have been trying to say. All that is obvious and all the hidden meanings trapped within rhyme and verse is worthless if it means nothing to you. These pages too, will one-day turn to dust and its words eventually forgotten, but the love that made it so will live eternally, eternally in the stars, eternally in the wind, eternally in the spirits that inherit the earth.

Something

About Humor

Homer

Hector, a Trojan Prince was killed

by Achilles, which is probably why

they called him a heel!

Message For A Recorder

Hello Hi it’s me!

It’s important that I let you..

mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble,

mumble, mumble, mumble, on the

14th mumble, mumble, mumble,

mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble,

so if you should have any questions,

just give me a call at, mumble,

mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble,

mumble, mumble, I’ll see you later.

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