A Couple of Poems

Getting all mushy on you today. The first is a poem I wrote and sold to New Love Stories magazine, now defunct. The second I just wrote one day - can't remember if anyone wanted it. I think I was attempting to do the non-rhyming thing with these. But I hope you have a special love in mind when you read them.

Dinner at Nine

By Susan Sundwall

For you only I wait like this,

enduring kindly stares,

fiddling with my napkin,

running my finger around the rim of my glass.

Passing minutes seem like hours.

Then I feel you,

before I see you—and I turn,

like some crowd scene in a romance movie,

there’s only you, your head above the rest and . . . 

suddenly no one else inhabits the universe.

Before you see me,

I watch your easy saunter,

hear your careless laughter.

As you draw near

how it jars me in my soul and . . .

I know, again, there is no choice for me,

but to love you for the rest of my life.

You Have a Way

By Susan Sundwall

When you cross my line of vision

completely blurring the landscape,

with a laugh over your shoulder

and a hurried kiss tossed my way;

my world stops.

When I see that faraway look

in your dreaming eyes

as we stroll along life’s path,

I always, always hope that

your thoughts and your dreams include me.

These small things about you quicken my heart

and again I know, that against your tender onslaught of love

I am still utterly and willfully helpless.

PS: If you'd like to read my children's story, The Lonely Little Valentine, let me know and I'll email it to you. Have a Love filled day! 

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