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Quotes from John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain