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Any questions: email Daniel Lynn Ferguson, Springfield MO., wetpaintstudioo@gmail.com
Cover page designs and drawing by: Daniel Lynn Ferguson
The poetry contained in this book is a part of my life journey, sharing love and friendship with family; plus friends and lovers I have met along the way. I dedicate this book to them. The ones who have inspired me to transform my feelings into poetry.
Copy right 2011
Please note: there are six books in the series; LOVE OPENS the VALLEY of EMPTINESS. BOOK one I’m offering free to the public in four parts; the other five BOOKS will soon be available, one book following after the other, for only .99 cents each, as they become available on the market here on smashwords.com in ebook format. Rather you purchase any of the other books or not, please enjoy the free ones.
Peace and love to all
Daniel Lynn Ferguson
Part II of IV
Part II of BOOK I: A JOURNEY OF LOVE, FRIENDSHIP and SELF AWARENESS
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JOYFUL MEDICINE
May the world sleep
with nothing on but a smile.
May the birds fly freely.
May the sky sing songs of joy.
“Laughter is a joyful medicine,”
whispered a clown.
But if a day goes by
and all I wear is a frown,
then hopefully when tomorrow becomes today
I’ll find my smile and wear it with a gleam.
And while I’m feeling the beam
I’ll put a few smiles in my pocket for good luck.
But if laughter is forgotten,
then life can be like a four legged table
with only three legs...?
moon of my Fantasies
I want to take you to the moon of my fantasies,
on a ride like you’ve never felt.
I’m so captured by your embrace.
So compelled by your kindness.
You’ve touched my soul in places I’ve never been touched.
You’re my dream inside of me.
As our heartbeats press against each other,
the moon melts into the sands of our thoughts.
Together we’ve walked the rocky creeks,
hand in hand enjoying each other’s words.
The summer heat is lessoned by a cool breeze.
Fairy dust squishes between our toes.
As our footprints disappear into the sunset,
the moon hides behind a cloud.
I look at you but my smile is hidden by the night sky.
You pull me close and all is well.
Hand in hand we disappear into the night...
laughing at the reflections of joy in each other’s eyes,
and making foreplay to each other’s souls…
we kiss,
making love to the bodies we wear.
And as the moon peaks from behind a cloud,
we snuggled up in each other’s arms…
we fall asleep.
SMELLING THE PLEASURES
I’m the love that I hold inside,
I’m the pillar of my soul.
Heck… I am my soul.
My body is my vehicle.
It carries me from one moment to the next.
When I drop my body I’ll be fully in the light,
the love…
the Universe.
But until then I’ll be in this human form…
smelling the pleasures of life.
JUST AS YOU Were
I used to want you more than you were.
Now I want you just as you are.
I used to say things I now regret.
I used to hold you as you’d hold me.
In all our time we’ve had together
we had our ups and downs.
Now I sit here as you lay there in that hospital bed…
lost somewhere in your subconscious mind.
I sit here and only want you as you were.
Those differences we held,
those days we share,
I hold them as you lay there.
I want you in my arms as I sit here.
The last time I saw you,
you struggled to understand who I was.
A tear runs down my face.
My eyes glisten,
but not with a smile.
I wait anxiously to see you
awake from your operation.
Hoping you’ll return just as you were.
We Kissed
I was lost in a daydream when I saw you
standing near some ruins.
I appeared before you,
and we embraced.
It was as if we hadn’t seen each other in ages.
Suddenly we became like water,
and in our water bodies we walked through
an ancient doorway into another world.
We grabbed each other protecting one another
from an unexpected gust of wind.
Soon we found ourselves standing in an eerie
landscape enchanted with numerous colors of grass.
Seconds later we returned to our human forms,
and looked in awl at the candy-cane light poles,
and mushroom trees resting nearby.
We could hear waves crashing on a nearby shore.
We approached… took off our garments
and walk side by side along the water’s edge.
It seemed to go on for miles,
pink sky and green sun.
And like ancient shipwrecks…
seashells as large as houses laid about.
Alongside them yellow, blue, and green fairies clustered nearby.
The warmth of the moment fed us with love and peace.
In knee high water we danced our naked toes into the sand.
We closed our eyes…
and became one with a wave vanishing into the shoreline.
Moments later we found ourselves on an abandon ship in the ocean.
We portended we were pirates until our ship disappeared
from under our toes.
But as soon as we hit the water we turned into dolphins.
As we laughed and played rubbing each other’s bellies,
we stared into each other’s eyes as if our souls had became one.
Suddenly the ocean disappeared,
we were like fish out of water.
Moments later we had returned to our human forms,
And found ourselves standing in the ruins of a castle.
The pictures on the walls all around us sparkled like jewels.
We kissed a long passionate kiss…
and as we slowly turned around,