Autumnal Septuagenarian Love
Waking to your touch
electricity in
your massive
healing hands
without a glint
of sexuality…
Waking to your smile
whispers sweetly
to my soul…
like the first time
so long ago
on our first walk
together
when your arm
brushed against mine
and shook our worlds
out of their solitary
orbits and
sent us to the moon!
Your grey fluffy hair
sparkling silver threads
entices every time
I sniff your fragrance
and inhale the heavens
the warmth
of your cheeks
in our fleeting
embrace
I would it
would last forever
like our love!
The smile lines etched
around your sky blues
alter the pulse
the course of my blood
and with each glance
reach for the stars
twinkling inside my head!
The wrinkles in your cheeks
and your furrowed brow
pluck at the strings
inside my bosom
for I know the hard times
and worries that
engraved them on your face!
As day turns to night…
On the doorway
to Orpheus
in pillowed embrace
your big hand
holds mine
and makes me
feel safe and loved
and little
as you drift off
leaving me wishing
for morning
to awaken once
more to you
fears tears
so long to wait
till morning!
We are old
How did this happen?
and we are in love
more than ever
youthful passion gone
replaced by years of fidelity
affection, quarrels, laughing,
teasing, crying
always sharing, caring
yet attraction still stirs
and the years of together
have sewn our souls to one!
Loss is inevitable
and unacceptable
In equal measure
The God I used to find
in nature
I now find in you
And the ecstasis
of gazing at the sky
now rests with the mystery
of you!!
A happiest of birthdays to the love of our many lifetimes together! Hope to continue our journey together to enlightenment!
May the rest of your seventies be healthy and happy and filled with love!
💖Your wife
MOONSIDE 
Wow, Ellen, so beautiful! Such a beautiful way of honoring your togetherness! And I truly you hope you can continue your journey together and in love, enjoying good health and a sense of wonder for one another and life itself. Sending love, light, and blessings to both of you!
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October 8, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Oh, thank you so much, Susana. Really appreciated. Thank you!
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October 8, 2024 at 5:57 AM
your post is so tender & beautiful, heart-touching🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼the poem is perfect, the mood remains with me now to carry me through the morning🌞🌳he is a lucky man. blessings to him, & to you both together💞💞💞💥🚀
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October 8, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Thank you SO much, Swadharma! I am the lucky one. I appreciate the blessings more than you can know. Blessings to you as well. With admiration, Ellen 🙏🏽🙌🫶❤️
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October 8, 2024 at 11:08 AM
❤️😘
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October 8, 2024 at 11:15 AM
😍🥰🙏🏽
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October 8, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Ellen, such lovely and heartfelt reflections of your togetherness. May your journey be filled with everlasting love.
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October 8, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Oh, thank you so much, Eugi! May yours be, too.
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October 8, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Lovely.
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October 8, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Thank you, Cindy!
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October 8, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Romantic writing in the truest sense of the word! You two are an inspiration to us all. I hope you both have a wonderful week together celebrating. ❤️❤️🎂
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October 8, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Thank you so much, Julie. So kind of you!
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October 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM
This is a touching and heartfelt gift for your husband-and your images are simply gorgeous! 🙂
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October 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Thank you so much, Nancy, on both counts!! So kind of you.
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October 8, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Your love for your husband is so beautifully expressed in words that communicate such commitment and joy and depth of heart–this literally takes my breath away. I hope you two celebrate well.
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October 8, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Thank you so much, Dayle! I am glad it touched you.
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October 8, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Such a loving and beautiful post. Happy birthday to your love.
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October 9, 2024 at 12:03 AM
As I started reading your lovely words Ellen, the opening lines of a Troggs song that I have not heard for many years, came into my head:
“If it’s love that you want
Baby, you’ve got it
From the depth of my soul”.
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October 9, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Thank you, Ronnie! I don’t know that song.
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October 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM
The song title was “Any Way That You Want Me” – 1966.
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October 9, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Oh, thank you, Ronnie! Will check it out.
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October 9, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Hi Ellen, always great to have a peak here ….thx for your lovely comments 6 weeks ago
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October 9, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Thanks so much, dear Bert! Hope you are okay!
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October 9, 2024 at 9:49 AM
we are well. tasting the wine of life and love … for as long as it lasts … 🙂
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October 9, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Righto🙏🏽
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October 9, 2024 at 9:58 AM
fantastic poetry for your partner in life. congrats, and be well enough to celebrate life for several decades to come.
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October 9, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Thank you so much, dear Bert! Well, we’ll see. Won’t we all. Do you still post? I checked. I am following you but I never see you!
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October 9, 2024 at 9:57 AM
i haven’t blogged in a while.
life seems to consume all our time.
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October 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM
That’s probably a good thing? Or at least I hope so. Good to hear from you.
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October 9, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Life is not bad these days …. we hope it will continue to bless all you and yours and us ( if it wants )
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October 9, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Yes!
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October 9, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Such a lovely tribute – “pluck at the strings / inside my bosom” – ahhhh… Linda xox
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October 10, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Thanks, Linda!! xxoo
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October 10, 2024 at 8:26 PM
🥰🌞🥳
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October 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Beautiful
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October 12, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Thank you, Anthony. I loved your swan piece.
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October 12, 2024 at 9:31 PM
A beautiful, tender love poem, love poem that makes my heart leap for joy. One of the best I’ve read, so real, so palpable. You and your beloved are so fortunate to have found each other in this world and in this life.
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October 16, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Thank you so much!! Yes, we are blessed. Hope to be together in the next life. ❤️
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October 16, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Beautiful
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October 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Thank you so much, Nichelle ❣️
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October 16, 2024 at 9:46 PM