Loving Her Both Times Forever Poem by Dónall Dempsey
Loving Her Both Times Forever
I watch her
move about
now in brightness
now silhouetted by the light
suffused with love
...with light
(all red hair flying
as she runs to meet him
he clicks the shutter
just before
she reaches him
flings herself
into his arms
sending the camera flying
her yellow blouse
& magenta skirt
turning now)
into the black & white
of this favourite photo
of 40 years ago or more
perched above
a roaring fire
that keeps the wolfish winter at bay
aided and abetted by a clock
with porcelain tick-tocks
& a flamenco doll
from touristy Spain
from sister Flo
(and with whom she never did get along) .
This is all she has
to fight Time with.
She so young then so
invincible
in her delight.
I watch her now
potter about
a halo of white white hair
her beautiful faded hands
making me a pot of Earl Grey tea.
She falls asleep
in the middle of talking to me
as the photo
comes alive
both dreaming the other.
I kiss her
sleeping head
tuck in her cover
my heart knowing that I love her
both in the times
that I didn’t know her
and that
I know her.
A simply beautiful poem. So tender in its loving...so knowing in its awareness...so gentle in its caring. Beautiful. love GianXXX
Donall this is such a...one of the most beautiful tender love poems that I know. I love it both times...forever. How you hold the sense of her and how you are aware of her in both past and present tenses...is just so touching. It made me cry and then I read it again and it made me cry. For a poem that made me cry so much I really love and I will probably cry again when I next read it. The end is really beautiful...really beautiful. love Dee Dee
Donall, this is, bar none, one of the most tender love poems I have ever read, for, to my way of thinking, it covers it all, and the transitional phrases...of turning the marvelous colored picture of her into a black and white photo, and into the white hair with its halo....is just perfect. One of your best ever, I believe! You really DO know what love is, don't you? ?
if love is what you have wrote here then i wish it upon everyone's life.truelly magical
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Lovely poem....the warmth of your heart is overwhelming.....now, about those e-mails I've been sending you? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Elysabeth....answer would be nice........................