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2.7k · Feb 2016
Belated Birthday Haiku
Patricia Kennedy Feb 2016
My lovely dear friend
Responsive, compassionate
Warm wishes to you!
869 · Oct 2016
Anniversary Without My Love
Patricia Kennedy Oct 2016
(I wrote this for my husband for our 11th anniversary. He was in the Navy, deployed. I found it in a book. That was 25 years ago)

It was eleven years ago today
Down South in Carolina way
That you n' me, in secret we were wed
We gave ourselves to each other
In those sacred vows we said
Every day l thank my Lord above  
For the power of our young, sweet love

You told me that nobody
Ever loved you like I do
Always I have loved you
Still our love is ever new
With your love you taught me
What commitment really is  

Through the years we haven't always
Been as close as we could be
Almost all our time together
We have journeyed happily
I wouldn't trade a minute
Of the time I've spent with you
The best times and the not so good
Whet our love most true

Today I spent alone, with empty arms
In my cold bed
How I long to feel the warmth of
your deep love in me instead
I long to give myself to you
And you yourself to me
Our kisses warm, our bodies hot,
as close as they can be

My joy in loving you
Is bittersweet today
Oh my darling! Oh my man!
You're half the world away
Anniversary without my love
Oh what a price to pay

In my heart you are as close
to me as my own breath
I pray that our dear love will grow
and even beyond death
With body, heart, and mind we'll know
As promised to each other
A life beyond our dreams  
My Bill! My own sweet lover!
Words alone cannot make known
how dearly our love sings



Sent from my iPhone
549 · May 2017
Ode to a Young Mother
Patricia Kennedy May 2017
She is a sparkling new mother
Taken to motherhood naturally  

She does so gracefully
Loving,ever giving

An up-to-the-minute mom
She takes good  care of herself

And her family with aplomb
Sharing kindly with others

Love fuels her day
Creative, tender hearted

Love fuels her day
For my daughter-in-law Erin, the mother of my grandson
357 · Feb 2020
CPTSD
Patricia Kennedy Feb 2020
Crying and healing
Childhood, bad, so powerful
Forgive, grief persists
220 · Jul 2017
I have known you
Patricia Kennedy Jul 2017
So long ago, Another life
I could feel your heart beat
It's not a dream, remember us
I can see it in your eyes

We'll find a place in time
A place beyond the sun

We'll find a place in time
A place in time to call our home
I found this poem cleaning out a folder. I know I wrote it--I don't remember when or who it was about, my husband or a close girlfriend. Tis a puzzlement.
142 · Feb 2020
God
Patricia Kennedy Feb 2020
God
I keep forgetting you
I miss when you worked through me
Help me surrender
126 · Feb 2020
How I miss you
Patricia Kennedy Feb 2020
My daughter, my love
hopelessly unrequited
Keep soaring, be kind
125 · Feb 2020
Can’t
Patricia Kennedy Feb 2020
Can’t sleep
Can’t stop crying
Can’t stop worrying
Can’t
125 · Jun 2022
Ode to Blossom
Patricia Kennedy Jun 2022
Blossom my flower
You’re my comfort this hour
Thanks for being you
110 · Feb 2020
Loyal
Patricia Kennedy Feb 2020
Married forty years

Loyally disconnected

Committed, lonely
107 · Jan 2020
Birthday Haiku
Patricia Kennedy Jan 2020
My dear son-in-law
Kind, compassionate,loving
Warm wishes to you!

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