A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON
Author: Unknown

Give me a kiss to build a dream on,
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss.
Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A kiss to build a dream on.
...oOo...
Give me a kiss before you leave me,
And my imagination will feed my hungry heart.
Leave me one thing before we part
A kiss to build a dream on.
...oOo...
When I'm alone with my fancies...I'll be with you
Weaving romances...making believe they're true.
...oOo...
Give me your lips for just a moment,
And my imagination will make that moment live.
Give me what you alone can give,
A kiss to build a dream on.

A MOTHER'S PRAYER
Author: Unknown

Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day,
With little time to stop and pray,
For life's been anything but calm
Since You called me to be a mom -
Running errands, matching socks,
Building dreams with wooden blocks,
Cooking, cleaning, finding shoes
And other stuff that children lose,
Fitting lids on bottled bugs,
Wiping tears and giving hugs,
A stack of last week's mail to read
So where's the quiet time I need?
Yet, when I steal a moment, Lord,
Just at the sink or ironing board,
To ask the blessings of Your grace,
I see then, in my small one's face,
That you have blessed me
All the while
And I stoop to kiss
That precious smile.

AS TIME GOES BY
Author: UnKnown

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is still just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
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And when two lovers woo,
They still say: "I love you."
On that you can rely.
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.
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Moonlight and love songs - never out of date
Hearts full of passion - jealousy and hate
Woman needs man - and man must have his mate
That no one can deny.
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It's still the same old story,
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.

"HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" MEANS MORE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

"Happy Mother's Day" means more
Than have a happy day.
Within those words lie lots of things
We never get to say.
It means I love you first of all,
Then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to me,
And that I honor you.

But most of all, I guess it means
That I am thinking of
Your happiness on this, your day,
With pleasure and with love.

GRANDMOTHERS ARE MOTHERS WHO ARE GRAND
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Grandmothers are mothers who are grand,
Restoring the sense that our most precious things
Are those that do not change much over time.
No love of childhood is more sublime,
Demanding little, giving on demand,
More inclined than most to grant the wings
On which we fly off to enchanted lands.
Though grandmothers must serve as second mothers,
Helping out with young and restless hearts,
Each has all the patience wisdom brings,
Remembering our passions more than others,
Soothing us with old and well-honed arts.

MOTHERS ARE THE GARDENERS
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Mothers are the gardeners
Of wind-blown wild flowers.
They water them with happy tears,
Happy with them many years,
Even as the hours
Ring with sweet, sad melodies
Sighing through their bowers.
A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea

A MOTHER'S LOVE DETERMINES HOW
Author: Nicholas Gordon

A mother's love determines how
We love ourselves and others.
There is no sky we'll ever see
Not lit by that first love.

Stripped of love, the universe
Would drive us mad with pain;
But we are born into a world
That greets our cries with joy.

How much I owe you for the kiss
That told me who I was!
The greatest gift--a love of life--
Lay laughing in your eyes.

Because of you my world still has
The soft grace of your smile;
And every wind of fortune bears
The scent of your caress.

I CALL YOU "MA," THOUGH YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER
Author: Nicholas Gordon


I call you "Ma," though you are not my mother,
But more a ma than any ma could be.
I've come to love you more than any other;
You took me in your charge and set me free.

You let me run and kissed me when I fell;
You kept your eyes on me and let me stray.
I learned things hard, which means I learned them well,
And got to know myself along the way.

My hope and faith and pride are all from you.
My roots are in your heart; you are my home.
You will be part of everything I do,
In all my thoughts a wise and lovely poem.

For all our lives we'll have this common ground:
You were my rock when else I would have drowned.

AN EASTER BLESSING
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Bless this day the joy of life,
The revelation of the flesh,
The paradise of man and wife
Joined to share the gift of bliss.

Bless this day the pain of life,
The passion that redeems the flesh,
The love between a man and wife
Beyond all agony and bliss.

Bless this day the end of life,
The peace within the dying flesh,
The bond between a man and wife
That long outlasts their bit of bliss.

Bless this day the whole of life,
The grace of being more than flesh,
The voyage of a man and wife
Across the mystery of bliss.

EASTER IS A TIME OF LOVE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Easter is a time of love,
A time of death and pain undone,

So we may know the power of
The love that lives in everyone.

Each love we feel, unstained and free,
Redeems us--as with you and me.

HAPPY EASTER TO MY LOVE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy Easter to my love!
As days turn into daze,
Perhaps the holiday will prove
Potent to your gaze.
Years pass like a blur, and yet
Eternity stands still,
Available in silhouette,
Seen by act of will.
This day may you be touched by grace,
Embraced by love, by passion moved,
Reborn to time and place.

ON YOUR DAY JUST WANT TO SAY
Author: Nicholas Gordon

On your day just want to say
That you can count on me
To be your friend until the end:
Just wait and you will see!
I know that you would be as true
To me for just as long.
No "if" or "but," no matter what,
Our friendship will be strong.

So, my dear, I'm glad you're here
To share my joy and pain.
I care so much, so keep in touch--
I'll talk to you again!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANDMA
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy Birthday, Grandma!
All my love to you!
Pleased to have this chance to offer
Praises that are due.
Years and years of love
Become an unheard song,
Infiltrating every thought,
Righting every wrong.
Then the background fades,
Harmonies cohere,
Days stop on a day like this,
And what we feel we hear:
Your love, sustained and clear.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLING
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday, darling!
Even though you're not with me.
Right now you're with someone else
Temporarily.

I know I am the wild cat
Who'll get you in the end,
Not only your hot lover, but
Your best and truest friend.

So have a happy birthday
And remember my sweet kiss.
It's waiting for you when you turn
To me, your fated bliss.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A SPECIAL FRIEND
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday to a special friend!
Although I haven't known you many years,
Perhaps because you've dried so many tears,
Pleasure reigns as I these greetings send.
Your happiness should last till all things end!

Because you've been so sweet and understanding--
In toughest times you've made me laugh and smile--
Rejoice in your own specialness awhile:
This I'm not requesting but demanding!
How else to make yourself the celebration,
Doing what does not come naturally?
Always your concern has been for me,
Yet now you must endure my adoration!

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" MEANS MUCH MORE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

"Happy Birthday" means much more
Than have a happy day.
Within these words lie lots of things
I never get to say.
It means I love you first of all,
Then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to me,
And that I'm proud of you.

But most of all, I guess it means
That I am thinking of
Your happiness on this, your day,
With pleasure and with love.

BIRTHDAYS ARE AN ANNUAL EXCUSE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Birthdays are an annual excuse,
A way of saying things we ought to say.
Relatively few can sing their love
Unless they do it on some special day.

Hearts are shy, and words of little use.
But now I want to tell you that I love you,

Open up my heart and say the things
Siblings seldom say to one another
'Cause of the embarrassment it brings.
However long we live, I'll be with you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY CYBER FRIEND
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday to my cyber friend!

As words must be our medium, a poem,

Perhaps, may best my birthday wishes send,

Poems being inner portraits out on loan.

Yet I would be a landscape in the mountains,

Bright sun battering an empty sky,

Immense rock faces answering all questions,

Resolving all in what instead of why.

To you I send a hope for happiness

Hedged with roses bristling in the wind,

Doing double duty for their mistress

As sentinels against the tricks of mind,

Yet luring well the love that makes life kind.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAREST ONE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday, dearest one,
Sweet child of my heart!
We've become one family,
Of which you are a part.

And so I sing out equally
To all of those who are
Mine by blood or fortune blessed,
No more, no less my star!

We are one in love and joy,
In fondness and in worth,
And so as one we celebrate
This day, your day of birth!

I LOVE YOU AS MY CLOSEST, DEAREST FRIEND
Author: Nicholas Gordon

I love you as my closest, dearest friend.
Boys and girls can be just closest friends.
There is no passion greater than the one
That touches not the body but the heart.

You mean much more to me than someone who
I date and undate, want and then don't want.
They're the waves, and you are like a shore
Where I can sit and watch them kiss the sand.

I'm sorry I can't be with you today,
When you should rule by virtue of your birth.
Please accept this tribute of mere words,
Poor substitute for all I am and have.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LATE, AND ALSO EVER
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday late, and also ever!
All your days be blessed with love and peace!
Please forgive my lateness, and endeavor
Patiently to grant me my release.
Years come and go; our friendship will increase.

Birthdays are like maps or clocks or signs:
In them we see an order more profound.
Reality lies deeper than our lines:
Time ticks as quarks and galaxies go round.
However arbitrary they may be,
Dates mark measures in the march of fate;
And since I'd like to see your destiny,
You can be sure next year I won't be late!

FOR MY AUNT, THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS
Author: Nicholas Gordon

For my aunt, the happiest of birthdays!
On this day your quiet soul should sing!
Rejoice in all the pleasure that this one day

Must to the kids who love you surely bring!
You, who give so much, should now be taking

All the affection we poor souls can show.
Understand this little fuss we're making
Nowhere near comes close to where we go,
Touched by love too beautiful to know.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAREST MAN
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday to my dearest man,
A father after many years of trying.
Pleasure? Yes, of course, there's no denying;
Perhaps more, though, the angst of those who plan.
Yet now we have a boy, whose gurgles can

Bestow on us a love of life undying,
Immerse us in the bliss of happy sighing,
Remind us of the world when we began.
There is no view of heaven before dying;
However, this tutorial will do.
Deep though my joy, the well is deeper still,
Abysses far beyond my thought and will,
Yet not beyond my boundless love for you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LOVE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday to my love!
A sea around my heart:
Part shelter, part enduring word,
Part mirror of my art.
You are the calm that drains my rage,

Bliss upon my shores,
Immensity immutable,
Rush that life restores.
To you I wish to be a welcome
Harbor for your ocean,
Destiny and origin,
Aim of your affection,
Yearning of your motion.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ONE I LOVE
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Happy birthday to the one I love!
All my joy goes out to you today!
Perhaps I learned, the months you were away,
Part of me moves always as you move.
You're the yearning distance can't remove,

Bringing life to reveries cold and gray;
In thoughts of you my dreams and passions play,
Rejoicing in a hope that time will prove.
Today I celebrate your day of birth,
Happy in the hour that brought you here,
Drawn by all the music of your worth,
A time for gratitude that you are near.
You are the one on Earth I hold most dear.

I MISS YOU ON YOUR BIRTHDAY
Author: Nicholas Gordon

I miss you on your birthday,
Not only for your smile,
But for the piece of me that's gone,
Left within your care.
I'm in an empty hallway
And have been for awhile,
Gazing inwardly towards home,
Neither here nor there.

How quickly we've turned distant!
The months pass by like years.
How could friends so inseparable
So soon seem so apart!

How imprecise the instant
Held hostage by my tears!
Though Time may seem insatiable,
I have you in my heart.

TO MY DAD ON HIS DAY
Author: Nicholas Gordon

To my dad on his day,
Of whom I am a living will:

May your happiness fulfill
Your goodness, as is just and right.

Deeds are seeds upon the night
As wind and wonder have their way,
Delivering the destined light.

TO MY LOVED ONE ON HIS DAY
Author: Nicholas Gordon

To my loved one on his* day:
Over you may sunshine reign!

May the west wind weary wane,
Yielding to your right-of-way!

Let me let you see your smile
On all the mirrors of your face
Vying for the favored place,
Each singing praises all the while!
Dearest one, for whom I long,

On whose sweet love I so depend,
Now bear the burden I would send:
Each word of wonder in my song!

YOUR BIRTHDAY WAS THE DAY WE FIRST WERE US
Author: Nicholas Gordon

Your birthday was the day we first were us,
And so for me it is a day twice blessed.
I celebrate my having you twice over:
First, that you are you, then that you're mine.

I never felt a love so free and fine,
So much of me that I am but a lover,
So rich and full to crowd out all the rest,
The me I was before I turned to us.

I am so joyful to be part of us,
To be at home with you and not a guest,
To celebrate this day and not another,
To share with you a common boundary line.