GeorgeManos

In My Life  There are places that I go Some the same, some are new But wherever I end up I know  The best place is where I met you. There are people I met, some forget, some remember But each one a special part my heart did fill Times too soon gone, some seeming to last forever But, you are the one that stirs my heart still. Of all my sweet memories you still rise above  Beyond life’s best moments most treasure  For in my life only you show me true love And from this my happiness best measure. And I will remember those here and who have gone Their memories will always be preserved indelibly  But there is one to which my heart will always belong In my life, you will always mean the most to me. 

Harbor  Your love is this world’s anchor So that with its waves I can still hold on Swept away by love's fervor So through uncertainty  I can go on.  And if my ship submerged your buoy see And my last breaths trying to reach you  While the rest of the world knows tranquility  It is only by finding you that I get through.  Because you will always be my guiding star Even though, below, I  am lost in the night  But wherever your love is can never be far Heaven or Earth can’t keep you from my sight.  And the cosmic seas in their home turn But your love an island they can’t cover As long as in my heart for you yearn  Our love will prove the best harbor.

Best Bring I walked upon this road and heard this bird's sweet song Suddenly I realized that I wasn’t the only one For with each note I learned to this world belong And away from it can never truly run. Even finding my way across the most distant sea I can look up and see a guiding star Beckoning me back to humanity For despite the ocean around never far. For there is a mortal bond we can’t break From here are born and together from it will go And this can be a paradise we make So, no other we need to know. Then we don’t have to worry about any Hell For our promise we have prized Not caring for any after world we dwell For harmony, here, have realized. When I travel down that road once more I will know what that bird sings We can all aim for Heaven’s door But it is on Earth its home best brings.

Only Guarantee And, so, this is the last night here  Tomorrow back to the routine I guess you didn’t appear But you can see me in this line. . And what’s left of my world waiting Oh, so hard to leave serenity behind But, I feel, past this peace, something hiding Serenity not the only thing I needed to find. Sometimes there is even trouble in paradise Believing from the tumult far away Bu didn’t even catch a glimpse of your eyes Without this angel no reason to stay. To face a world where my sadness guaranteed At least here I had my respite I found my solace but not what I need The only certainty you will not be in sight.

Someone I Yearn What’s worse than an empty page a writer can’t fill Or a canvas a painter can’t paint? Without inspiration not a single word or stroke spill And all the skill without it to these can’t acquaint. What’s worse than a morning without the sun Or an ocean without the shore? Without the spirit behind it can’t run For without purpose nothing more. How would the day be without a bird's song Or at night without the stars that shine? Without my soul this melody doesn’t belong And all this beauty comes to life when you are mine. What’s worse than leaving this life without love Like this world that for no reason turn? All that I experience only your love prove And life only worthwhile for someone I yearn.

Love is all we Need  Is this why we live in this place  To be the arbiter between love and hate Is this the fate of the human race  And that for the outcome its promise wait? Is this the fate of our earthly paradise  That this constant battle be waged  Our promise higher measures should realize  This should be where love’s play is staged.  Who comes out ahead in this battle immaterial  For who has gained love will succeed  And hate's cause becomes trivial  For paradise love is all we need.  And, so, the decision has been cast  This place destined for a greater purpose to know  No room for hate, but why its adversary can’t last  This earth the ground for love to grow. 

Heaven Only Lives  **** The air around me does not draw me in like you  The sun’s warmth not as comforting as yours  And the Robin’s melody not as sweetly my heart woo  And  where a garden seen your love more  beautifully  flowers.  **** Where the waves roll your cadence more soothing  And the moonlight alluring but you are the brightest star  And how pleasant my dreams better if I see you in the morning. For however distant the night your love never far.  **** When I walk the remotest road with you more peaceful  And the meadow bright but not that of your essence  While I sit alone my time with you more meaningful  As blissful as my solitude even more so in your presence.  **** And when I leave this place I hope your face I see  For when you were here my world was sweet And Heaven only lives if you are with me My earthly angel that makes it complete.

Heaven Only Lives  The air around me does not draw me in like you  The sun’s warmth not as comforting as yours  And the Robin’s melody not as sweetly my heart woo  And  where a garden seen your love more  beautifully  flowers.  Where the waves roll your cadence more soothing  And the moonlight alluring but you are the brightest star  And how pleasant my dreams better if I see you in the morning. For however distant the night your love never far.  When I walk the remotest road with you more peaceful  And the meadow bright but not that of your essence  While I sit alone my time with you more meaningful  As blissful as my solitude even more so in your presence.  And when I leave this place I hope your face I see  For when you were here my world was sweet And Heaven only lives if you are with me My earthly angel that makes it complete.

Melody **** Let me make this simple and brief Like the birds who sing naturally Since you left Time has been a thief Stealing those moments you were next to me. **** For everyone else this Earth their playground Where their fantasies on this stage play But this stage only empty if you’re not around But what a romantic play if you only did stay. **** There are heaving oceans and brilliant meadows Roads travelled and where few have tread Where the Raven beckons behind the shadows Where emperors founded kingdoms where love led. **** Where poets wrote lofty lines such love to preserve And Juliet would accept the eventual tragedy For, for a few brief moments, love's purpose serve And trade it for the love a higher purpose did see. **** You can still hear the birds melody here serenading And a a poet can indulge in how his lover’s hair seducing But this Earth will not afford me this luxury My best chance is to hear you with your angels singing.

Finest Angel **** You love me, I found out that is true Returning my love, you know I feel in my heart Now counting the time when I see you Except propriety tries to keep our emotions apart. **** I will see you after all this this time in between But it cannot hide what we truly feel So worth it when your beauty is seen I only wish that moment could forever steal. **** And I could present this to Heaven to know That here your love is ready for its review And that it could easily, any time, to its home go And all its angels fall in line after you.

Once Did Move **** How long do I have to wait for Time? Life's cruelest blow still feel Maybe I can bury my sorrow in this rhyme Until the final day my time here seal. **** I thought that my pain's edges dulled That each day easier to survive But such sorrow to these words not lulled Not enough to be simply alive. **** That there is a hope for someone new Instead, the darkness is swirling around Whoever she may be, she will never be you The one woman where my love was found. **** So, Time can measure all the days it can But with each day that passes only prove It can’t bring back the one who held my hand It can’t mend the heart she once did move.

The Place **** The sun doesn’t remind me of your light Even though its rays keep me as warm It reminds me of you in my full sight While the sun sits high while our senses swarm. **** The moon doesn’t remind me of our romance Even though the night was our starry bed It reminds me of when we took a chance To see, lying together, where our love led. **** The morning does not remind me of the day Even though this is when our dreams became true It reminds me of the belief you would always stay And that, at its end, would remain with you. **** But the rest of my life without you will be empty Nothing else in Heaven or Earth this truth belies Unless in the morning I find that you are next to me This is the place, then, my happiness will realize.

Reaching You **** I know my reaching you long overdue I am scared, after all these years, of rejection So foolish for all the time I have known you But propriety reigns in my affection. **** Except I can feel this distance takes a toll For what I try to express my spirit ignore For what loss, can’t lose what my heart still know Can’t see you less, your love need more. **** What I am facing I could never fully expect Now learning I can never leave you, too far, away For, no matter where you are, my heart still affect And my inspiration only lives if, here, you stay. **** So, I must reach you, despite my fear, again For when you reply with the sweetness in you I can push back on my loneliness and pain Yours is the love that can get me through.

You are the One *** What happens when who you love Time takes Will a Robin’s song ever sound the same? Who cares when life your heart breaks? Will an ocean's waves the shore tame? **** And I should, still, enjoy this world’s best bounty But how full is it when you’re not found? Like a garden in the spring its flowers don't see Our fertile love is found in the fairest ground. **** There are stars, above, to their mystery call But there’s something on Earth they can surprise How love can dictate how for you I fall While the Stars' brilliance fades before your eyes. **** So, Time has claimed you and left me behind Like a meadow that leaves behind the sun Darkness claimed, for your light must find For all on Heaven and Earth, you are the one.

From Heaven Take ***" The new night is here and, soon, time to sleep Followed by the next new day in life's procession Except the same old troubles my heart keep Only more time for them to teach a bitter lesson. **** That this world without your love is only empty I must go on with this pain to bear That it can’t truly go on when you’re not with me And this world is only cruel continuing without you there. **** So, why should I look for any respite in my dreams tonight Or that the morning will provide any relief? Only worse seeing you in them and then gone in the light So the next new morning only brings new grief. **** Maybe I should take my remaining days as another chance To find another happiness my heart awake But what luck meeting one with our romance What’s next only good if your love from Heaven take.

A Kiss ****. Life goes on, and then there is you Time almost this wound forgot I can see how so much pain it gets through But your memory escaped what most sought. **** The smiles and the laughter, I hear them all The flow of life that through this world resounds I am but the apparition waiting for you to call For only through your voice Heaven’s meaning sounds. **** As each day goes on the distance will grow And yet I find that you are still closer to me And when my Time is done its legacy know That it known best when it sets us free. **** The children innocently laugh and play Their mothers picking them up when done Why wouldn’t I in such a world want to stay Except the woman I love is the only one? **** So, I go on watching this place in full gear Despite my sorrow there is a beauty I miss And that is because its greatest treasure not here The one that makes all else worthwhile with a kiss.

Hello Darkness **** Hello darkness we meet again At least in you I have a friend As the silence around is creeping Its sound tonight too loud for sleeping. **** And so, I have this time to write No time to dream of you tonight Words that will the morning awake To speak of what my heart did break. **** Until the day will prove this true Its light is lost without you And so, the sun a stranger to me For though I look you cannot see. **** And I can’t any answers find Nothing here brings peace of mind Then ask why life can be so cold An empty night without you to hold. **** Will you, dear night, the answer give And teach me without love to live? Or better, yet, my final night prepare And in that morning find her there.

With My Love **** This should be the night for dreams but I am awake For what I long for in them not truly appear I am waiting for you to come for me to take And when the morning comes from here disappear. **** And in my room I hear only a silent sound The perfect setting from which to leave the world behind For the sounds of life here are not where I am found Better go now to where Heaven’s melody find. **** I know the stars are up and to me are beckoning For they are the stairway to your new home So I am awake here for this passage awaiting Until you take my soul and with you forever roam. **** And when the morning comes and the sun wipes her eyes So that the new day can clearly see If she looks here will have to realize I left for another place with my love to be.

Only Where You Are **** This is the day that ends all days Because I realize that the next one is without you And now the next one will realize That my time here is through. **** Except in the morning I will awake Minus the one who gave this world meaning So, the sun may shine but my brightness take And leave me longing for the evening. **** When I can look up to see the nearest star Imagining that there is where you have gone And believe to reach you not that far For no distance matters if to you belong. **** But here I wait and the night so empty To count on dreams where you appear A preview of when you once again with me Then the distance from dreams to Heaven near. **** But this is the last day our love here reckon For that it is gone I have to admit Now the night, past my dreams, does beckon But only where you are is the morning best lit. **** Now, I am left with a void your love did once fill No dreams or talk of eternity can ever satisfy But only succumbing to your passion fulfill In the morning finding that with you I lie.

The Other Side **** I saw the other side and tried to draw me in So, when I say I want to be with you why stay? Yet, I pulled back into this place but no peace win Except you saying from my family can't go away. **** I saw a white world and I knew the next place One day, I know I won't be able to fight back But I fought even when there could see your face I should have let go, maybe the courage I lack. **** Easy to say because you didn't want this to be But, tonight, I know this strength would show Except, our family is that important to me You would not be happy if to you, then go. **** And you know I could not leave them behind Love never meant to be easy to understand I searched for so long its comfort to find Am I here for something more planned? ***" Then for Love's true purpose only play a part This Earth the stage for its spectacle To tell the story of who best owned my heart Yet, spoiling its script for to you will go. *"** Yet, I am but a player, do I know my direction? The twists I can take still a part of the play That wrote who would entice my affection And which love had, in my life, the most sway. **** And tonight I have to confess am most worn Shall I succumb to a dream from which awake Or to that final sleep to where you were borne Then leave behind one my heart, here, still take? **** I have been to the other side and saw its light And, one day, not be able to this place return Then once more, you will be in my sight But Earth's play will let go another I yearn. **** And then in Heaven look down below For one love reclaimed the other didn't know.

Forever Know   I looked up at the stars tonight Wondering if you were there Then, looking around, I saw your light And realized Heaven is everywhere. ****   And I saw a star brighter than the rest The others highlighting its boudoir For such beauty they could only attest And prove love can never be too far. **** The day can be too short and the night long But after the day is done to it will go Then in the deepest reaches to you belong And what shared briefly here forever know. ****

Forever Know   I looked up at the stars tonight Wondering if you were there Then, looking around, I saw your light And realized Heaven is everywhere.   And I saw a star brighter than the rest The others highlighting its boudoir For such beauty they could only attest And prove love can never be too far. The day can be too short and the night long But after the day is done to it will go Then in the deepest reaches to you belong And what shared briefly here forever know. Keywords: Poetry, Dickinson, love, romance, nature

Forever Know   I looked up at the stars tonight Wondering if you were there Then, looking around, I saw your light And realized Heaven is everywhere.   And I saw a star brighter than the rest The others highlighting its boudoir For such beauty they could only attest And prove love can never be too far. The day can be too short and the night long But after the day is done to it will go Then in the deepest reaches to you belong And what shared briefly here forever know.

Heaven to Such Beauty What more is there to say? Nothing but to remember what I lost Maybe better I head your way Losing this world not too high a cost. For the place that you now occupy There I will find my purpose renew So, from here to you will gladly fly Building on the love we once here knew. And the stars are calling me in the night For among them your spirit does live And the one that's brightest in your sight Heaven to such beauty can only give.