“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...my thoughts reach out like prayers to you - and if you are quiet, you can hear...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...yes, I wrote that for you, who can't sort out lie from lay no matter how often I explain it - crayons… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I… — john geddes Copy Share Image
“...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me... — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...and you thought beauty was the outward show - but now you know the truth, my Love - it's always been the… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on... — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint - the same lacquer he uses upon your lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...” — John Geddes Copy Share
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share
