MY HAPPY POETRY

A FRIEND
I'll love you until the day I die.
I'll love you even if you make me cry.
I'll love you through the good times and bad.
I'll love you even if you make me mad.

Let no one set asunder the bond between you and I.
Let us never, between the two of us, place a stupid guy.
Let us always remember to forgive and to forget.
Let neither of us be competely happy until the other's needs have been completely met.

You mean the world to me.
You press me to be all that I can be.
You lift me up when I am down and sad.
You make me feel good about myself rather than bad.

Never before have I known a friend as true as you.
Never before have I had a friend that for her, anything I would do.
Never before have I felt a love as strong as your love for me.
Never before have I loved someone as much as I love thee.

Friend should be spelled A-U-D-R-E-Y.
Friends like you should never have to die.
Friends like you should be given medals.
Friends like you should be bathed in rose petals.

I wanted you to know how I truly feel.
I wanted you to know that my love for you is real.
I wanted you to know that I would travel to the ends of the earth for you.
I wanted you to know that for you there is nothing that I will not do.

I wrote this poem for Audrey after I met her at ISU this year (1998). She is the best friend that I have ever known or had and I don't know where I'd be at right now without her strength and support through life.

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AN ANGEL FROM ABOVE
No one understood the pain I felt inside.
No one understood why under a rock I wanted to hide.
No one tried to understand what was inside of me.
No one tried to show me how much happier I could be.

And then one day she came like an angel from the skies.
And then one day she showed me that there were better things in the world than guys.
And then one day she taught me that there were true, devoted friends.
And then one day she showed me that all the pains and hurts she forever mends.

All my life I never found a friend as true as you.
The relationship type is so new to me that I don't know what to do.
I feel I can tell you everything that has happened throughout my life.
I feel I have no secrets and that my back you will never plunge with a knife.

No one ever cared before, no one ever tried.
No one ever hugged me before, no one held me when I cried.
No one ever showed me what a true friend was and did.
No one ever grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out when I hid.

And then one day, there you were, you entered my secluded little world and opened the door with your key.
And then one day you grabbed that thing from deep inside of me.
And then one day you threw if far into the sky.
And then one day that part of me wilted and did die.

My life is like an opened book for you to read and skim.
And with you as my friend forever, it will never again be grim.
I want to tell you as a friend how much I love you and everything that I would do for you.
But both of us know that expressing my feelings is one thing I cannot do.

I wrote this poem just this year (1998)for my best friend. She is awesome and I've never had a friend like her before. She is always there to lift me up and give me a swift kick in the butt when I need it. I love her, she's the best! Rather than identifying this wonderful friend, I'll leave it that if this was written for you, you will know.

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AN INSEPARABLE PAIR
I found a personal ad one day on my computer
For a man that looked to be my perfect suitor.
I placed all of my inhibitions aside
And to this ad, I bravely replied.

I told this man a little about me
And told him what to make me happy, a man must be
The email that I soon received in return
With excitement, caused my stomach to churn.

This man's name was Dave and he had suggested
That the two of us meet although in getting to know one another, little time had we invested.
And so, on that following Thursday night
The two of us met and to me, everything seemed so right.

We went to see the movie "Dead Man on Campus"
And not even I could see the magic growing between us.
Following the movie, we returned to my dorm room
And with each word that escaped his mouth he made me melt and swoon.

At around 2 A.M., he decided to go
But when no goodnight kiss came I thought that he would not be my beau.
He asked me to email him and I gladly obliged.
However my feelings for him, I could not hide.

He wanted to see me again on the next Monday.
Of course I agreed and for things to work out, I did pray.
He came on that Monday and by then Audrey knew all.
When I told her that he had not yet kissed me, she ran down the hall.

My face turned bright red, my head hung with shame
When back to the den, Audrey soon came.
I pressed her and probed her until she told me what she had said
And when she told me, I wished I were dead.

To this man named Dave she told
My fears and desires that I did currently hold.
She told him that he was to kiss me that night
And I no longer wanted to return to my room, I wanted to hide out of sight.

But to my room, Audrey forced me to return
And of Dave's feelings for me, I began to learn.
That night we played cards, talked, and watched TV
And I couldn't believe what later, he did to me.

He kissed me and my heart skipped a beat.
It caused my whole body to begin to heat.
He touched me and in his arms, I began to melt.
It made me feel like never before had I felt.

I knew at that moment that in my life, I needed him to be
And our furture together, I was beginning to see.
With email after email and date after date
I knew that my finding him had to have been fate.

Soon we became an inseparable pair
And each second spent without one another became difficult to bear.
Exclusivity in the relationship soon became ours.
To pull us apart would have required supernatural powers.

It may be possible that Dave is my soul mate
For each time I'm with him, he speeds up my heart rate.
No one else before has ever made me feel like this.
Never before did a person this much, I miss.

For him, I feel so much love.
When I'm with him, the sun always seems to shine from above.
His love for me, he displays too
And he makes me feel that for me, there is nothing that he will not do.

I hope, with him, to spend the rest of my life.
I want to someday be his wife.
For he is the most wonderful man I've ever known
And I want to be with him and him alone.

I wrote this poem when I was with someone that I'm no longer with. It's the story of how we met and how we got to where we are today.

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IS THIS LOVE?
Who determines what love is?
How do I know if I'm in love? Can I take a quiz?
Can someone tell me if I'm in love and help me see
If I'm correct in understanding this feeling deep inside of me?

There is this man named Dave who has entered in my life.
And though I've only known him less than two months, I can easily envision myself becoming his wife.
He makes me feel differently than every man that has come before.
On that first day that I met him, my world found another opened door.

He wants to spend every minute just lying with his arms wrapped around me.
And this, to me too, makes me as happy as can be.
When his lips meet with mine, I melt.
Never before I met him, have like this I felt.

There is almost nothing I would rather do than spend my time with him.
And when I am with Dave, my many problems seem to dim.
Each day of my life is filled with hurt and pain.
But when he is beside me, I can have a life without it again.

He sends me adoring emails and virtual greetings of love.
He makes me feel that on his list of important people, the rest I am above.
He shows me that I'm a special person, no one is like me.
All of his love, care, and respect for me, he allows me to see.

And so, with all of these things for me that Dave says and does,
I feel so high and happy it's better than any drug type's buzz.
I can see that with this relationship, I have been truly blessed.
For I could not hope for anything better. This one is the best.

So now, can you tell me if love is what I feel?
Because I tell Dave I love him and I feel that it is real.
And who defines just what love is?
For I've never felt this way before and I think that's what this is.

I wrote this one while I was with Dave too.

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JUST THE THREE OF US
Some friends come and most friends go
But I've found the two greatest friends living with me on Rowe.
Never before have I known such love.
Someone has blessed me from up above.

The two of you are all that I need in my life.
From my hand, you would tear the knife.
You would empty the bullets from my gun.
You would hold me tight if I tried to run.

The school year, 1998-1999
Brought me not one friend, but made TWO friends mine.
Why did it take almost 21 years
To find someone that can understand my pains, my sorrows, and my fears?

You comfort me when I'm down and sad.
You lift me up when I feel bad.
You slap me out of bad attitudes.
You make me laugh and put me into better moods.

But, the most important thing of all,
Is how our relationships grow bigger and bigger instead of small.
I can know for sure that you two will always be my friends
And never let our relationships meet their ends.

I wrote this poem this year (1998) as well for my two best friends, Audrey and Jen. I can't understand how I was able to find not one great friend but two at once. I'm amazed and I thank whomever is responsible.

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THE KEYS OF FRIENDSHIP

Something happened one blessed day.
What caused it to happen, I cannot say.
What happened was two angels fell down from the sky.
They lifted me up when I could no longer fly.

It happened so incredibly fast, I was swept along the way.
I never had time for all of the thanks I wanted to say.
I don't know if these angels know just what they mean to me.
I don't know if they know without them what I'd be.

I wish that I could tell them the value that they hold.
I wish that I could show them that for nothing would their love be sold.
I want to be able to cry to them to show them what they mean.
I want to be able to hug them so that my undying love could be seen.

Deep inside the tears pour out of my heart.
But on the surface, I'm an actress with a demanding part.
I want for you to know that thoughts and love I have for you.
But for some reason, telling you is something I cannot do.

You, Audrey and Jen, are these angels of my writing.
I hope that we will never lose one another due to something such as fighting.
I want that through this poem, you ca have a concept of what you mean to me.
To unlock what's stuck within me, you hold the only key.

I wrote this poem for Audrey and Jen, obviously. These two have seriously made the world a whole nother place for me to live in. I can never express what they do for me in a mere poem but yet I try to get my point across.

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MY ONE AND ONLY
Words cannot express the joy I feel inside,
For the love that you showed in saving me when I could have died.
You forced me to do something, which I did not want to do.
You tried to release me from the pain that with each second grew.

Although I tried to hide it, you saw the pain within my eyes.
You could see straight through to my heart through all of my assorted lies.
I can hide nothing from you, for a true friend can see all.
A true friend like you can knock down or climb over any wall.

You took me to the doctor although I didn't want to go.
With this gesture your love, care, and concern for me you were truly able to show.
At the hospital, you came back and stood with me.
At this moment I realized that a better friend to me you could never be.

Once in the room, you needed no words to show me how you felt.
If I asked you to pray for me, at my bedside you would have knelt.
Your constant and assorted fidgets revealed to me your nervousness inside.
And you unveiled to me the lengths to which you would go and place your many fears aside.

As you stood beside me, I knew that everything would be okay.
After seeing the feelings that you had for me, I knew I could die happy on that day.
You would have done anything for me to help to ease my pain.
And for all of your love, care, and concern, you had nothing to personally gain.

You sat alone in the waiting room for hour after hour.
And since that experience that Sunday, with thoughtfulness, assistance, and love, you have covered me in a shower.
You escorted me home, safe and sound.
In the abundance of love that poured from your heart, I nearly drowned.

Upon your demands, I immediately went to bed.
At that moment in time, knowing my diagnosis, I wished I were dead.
But despite my constant pleas, you refused to kill me,
And that things would get better and that I would make it through, you allowed me to see.

Things then seemed to escalate to the point of no return.
The hatred inside of me for what I was going through made my heart ache and burn.
Everything suddenly caved in upon me.
How I would survive the rest of what was coming, I could not see.

You showed me then that things weren't as bad as they appeard to be,
And that I would make it through this with the power of you and me.
Without you, I don't know if I would have survived.
My life that was almost gone, you lifted up and revived.

But this is what it is that true friends often do.
There is not a single length that a real friend will not go to.
My love, care, concern, and thankfulness for you have no end,
For you and you alone will always be my one and only true best friend.

I wrote this poem for Audrey as well. However, this poem was inspired by an event in my life which lasted about a month. I had a kidney stone and had to have two surgeries to take care of it and was in a lot of pain. But, Audrey stood by me through it all and was there for me until the very end.

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THE PENTAGON FROM ROWE
The pentagon from Rowe,
Each in our hearts wherever we go.
Lisa, Tonia, Tana, Kelly, and Marie,
How much we care for one another, the rest cannot see.

Lisa likes most things
And is awesome when she sings.
She hates tomato soup and V8.
But when it comes to Cheerios, she thinks they're great.

Tonia is addicted to Dairy Queen.
And, if you go without her, she gets very mean.
She won't eat peas.
But her eyes light up when chocolate she sees.

Tana likes Star Wars and the Starship Enterprise.
For her it's always late to bed and as late as possible to rise.
She thinks that Kelly knows a lot about biology,
But, she really knows more about sociology.

Kelly loves Cal Ripken
Along with the rest of the Orioles men.
She wants to work for the FBI
And wants the people at Gateway 2000 to die.

Marie and cookies--do not come between,
Or else your hand may never again be seen.
She likes coutry music
And fits the stereotype of the Iowan hick.

We have grown together and formed a bond,
Of each other we are very fond.
I hope our friendship is strong enough to last forever
And that none of us will ever let it sever.

The four of you are my best friends,
And with this poem and picture my love sends.
I will never forget any of you.
May our friendship stick together for all time as if bonded by glue.

Yes, this is a cheesy poem. It's hard to make things rhyme with names and personal traits, though. If you have visited my friends page, this poem was written for the four gals in the first picture with me. Lisa and Tonia were moving off-campus so I wanted to write them a poem to tell them that I cared and felt that I couldn't leave out Marie and Tana. So, this is what I came up with.

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THE REAL WORLD
You hold my heart within your hands
And there it beats and there it stands.
It nearly explodes trying to contain
Its love for you and all of the pain.

But, when the volcanoes erupted and lightning struck from the sky,
My heart split in two and a large part of it died.
It felt as though a dagger had been stabbed clear through.
The pain and the heartache hurt so badly that I didn't know what to do.

I plead fo ryour forgiveness and begged you to come back
For my life was worthless filled with a huge lack.
And then I finally realized that everything had come to an end
And that the happiness and pleasure that I felt with you would never be again.

Then, one day, you showed up at my door.
The first moment I saw you there, my jaw dropped to the floor.
You were like a sad puppy dog begging to come in out of the rain
But everything you said and did brought back all of the pain.

I realized that I still was not over you
And I wanted the relationship to start anew.
I wanted you forever in my heart
And wanted us to never again part.

But, real life doesn't happen like on the TV.
Then you told me that you and I could not together be.
You told me, "I love you."
And I told you, "I love you too."

I had to put my selfishness aside
And think of the innoocent victim placed on the inside.
I had to think of the small child's heart
And how from her loving father, she had been pulled apart.

I know now that there is a four-year-old child that can be saved
And the road for her, I should help to become paved.
She was forced to grow up before her time.
She endured more in four years than many do in a lifetime.

I tell myself that one day this will be through
And that some day, I will have you again too.
My love for you will burn like an eternal flame
Until one day again, I can be your dame.

I love you more than life itself
And though it will hurt to store it on a shelf,
I will wait around
Until our love for one another can once again be found.

I wrote this poem back when I was still being stupid after breaking up with a boyfriend. He, as well as the poem, mean nothing to me but I thought that I would post the poem anyway for all to read my stupidity.

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YOU DON'T KNOW JAK!
Don't try to understand us.
Don't try to get inside.
Don't try to join in with us.
Don't try to walk in our stride.

We are three individuals
But together we form one.
Together we will fight in one another's duels
And we're always having fun.

Without the other two there is a void in our hearts.
We do not want to be separated.
We do not want to be pulled apart.
Our love for one another is too enormous to be stated.

Together we form a circle
Without a beginning or an end.
Our hearts form one soul.
There is nothing more important to us that an ever-lasting friend.

J is for Jen,
A person who understands all.
Through most things she has been,
And she can knock down any wall.

A is for Audrey,
A woman who yearns to make things better.
She is like a forever-giving tree,
Nothing you could ask of her would ever upset her.

K is for Kelly,
An individual stronger than she cares to admit.
She wants to be the best friend that she can be,
And trying she will never quit.

I've told you this much and
Still you will never be able to see.
You will never be able to understand
Our inner mystery.

Don't try to separate us.
Don't try to one of us be.
Don't try to understand us.
For what we have, you will never be able to see.

This poem was written in 1999 for Audrey and Jen (duh, again). I got the idea from the popular computer game, "You Don't Know Jack!"

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