found it -- 1969 prequel of Every Breath You Take
as previously hinted, 14 years before Sting:::
I Am Watching...
Lover, I am watching you,
for I want to know all of you:
from your smile,
but it's not your smile:
it's a silver-blue sparkle
from behind your eyes,
or two smooth curves,
rising, across your cheeks,
or the curve of your mouth,
bending up, to linear and beyond;
from your body,
but it's not your body:
it's a silver-gold-tan blur of motion,
begun by silver and tan,
by the light behind your eyes,
followed by the drifting-gold afterglow
of your hair streaming after,
or the taut lines of your arms,
converging at that point behind your eyes,
now closed and looking inward,
striving to find the source of that lifelight
of a moment of ecstasy,
and the rising and falling of your breasts,
velvet-textured in the moonlight,
moving in time with your search for the source
and slowing,
as the search ends and the source is known;
these and more, ever more,
whose sum is you,
are the beauties I know as I watch;
I see myself, smiling your smile,
from within me,
moving through the day with you,
slightly ahead, then slightly behind,
then breathing my breaths,
that you may work to breathe yours
while making mine seem impossible to find;
in these ways each of us moves into the other's life;
we learn one another as we learn ourselves,
gaining an added dimension
by reflection, each in the other,
as we live,
alone,
together,
and watching... jpm.28dec69, alone.
I Am Watching...
Lover, I am watching you,
for I want to know all of you:
from your smile,
but it's not your smile:
it's a silver-blue sparkle
from behind your eyes,
or two smooth curves,
rising, across your cheeks,
or the curve of your mouth,
bending up, to linear and beyond;
from your body,
but it's not your body:
it's a silver-gold-tan blur of motion,
begun by silver and tan,
by the light behind your eyes,
followed by the drifting-gold afterglow
of your hair streaming after,
or the taut lines of your arms,
converging at that point behind your eyes,
now closed and looking inward,
striving to find the source of that lifelight
of a moment of ecstasy,
and the rising and falling of your breasts,
velvet-textured in the moonlight,
moving in time with your search for the source
and slowing,
as the search ends and the source is known;
these and more, ever more,
whose sum is you,
are the beauties I know as I watch;
I see myself, smiling your smile,
from within me,
moving through the day with you,
slightly ahead, then slightly behind,
then breathing my breaths,
that you may work to breathe yours
while making mine seem impossible to find;
in these ways each of us moves into the other's life;
we learn one another as we learn ourselves,
gaining an added dimension
by reflection, each in the other,
as we live,
alone,
together,
and watching... jpm.28dec69, alone.
I'm very old, but I gotta say, reading that...well, I'm going to have a conversation with the wife. After 59 years together, we still make that trip that lovers write about as above. Is it hot in here?
So many lumps in my throat, you'd think I had a goiter.
which I will eventually find, here in the "stacks" --
if you remember how they used to call the back
rooms at the library....... -- j
Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in my family church --
such a thrill to watch it work (I was about 12) while
the organist was practicing! -- j
and air doing strange things in the pipes before
producing the real note ... it was majestic, for a
budding mech engr student !!! -- j
p.s. and the genuine steam calliope on the
Alaska Queen (we went up there in '09) was
a hissing whoosher too -- way out of tune,
most of the time! (tone varies with steam
quality, % of water saturation compared
with max possible.)
y'know, that's something which is a constant source of fun
with people -- the lead guitarist with the astrophysics PhD,
the economics professor who has a sideline in defrauding
the voters, the actor who flies helicopters to rescue hikers
in the mountains ... people are fascinating! -- j
nikon on the stern-wheeler, play the calliope and
write about it when you get home. . that's super!!! -- j
(please note that this is verbatim from sender)
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Ralph, age 80, always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots so he bought a pair and wore them home. Walking proudly, he sauntered into the kitchen and said to his wife, "Notice anything different about me?"
Ethel, age 75, looked him over. "Nope."
Frustrated, Ralph stormed off into the bathroom, undressed and walked back into the kitchen completely naked except for the boots.
He asked Ethel a little louder this time, "Notice anything different NOW?"
Ethel looked up and said in her best deadpan look, "Ralph, what's different? It's hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday and it'll be hanging down again tomorrow."
Furious, Ralph yelled, "AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT'S HANGING DOWN, ETHEL?"
"Nope. Not a clue, Ralph," she replied.
"IT'S HANGING DOWN, BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!"
Without missing a beat Ethel replied, "Shoulda bought a hat, Ralph. Shoulda bought a hat."
======================= -- j
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god!" Shakespeare.
Regards,
O.A.
nature of a man and a woman together, well --
John Wayne said it well in McLintock ....... "all the
gold in the u.s. treasury, and all the harp music in
heaven, can't equal what happens between a man
and a woman, with all that growin' together." -- j
p.s. this is found at 1:17 in this youtube::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rff9RELy...
wearing handicapped tags these days, but we
do hope to go out together, if ... well, it's almost
like the old song:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lRWXHom...
or, well, live for this week, this month, this year..... -- j
this one, too::: -- j
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIKOtedB...
I think we are aging ourselves...So what :)
A classic, timeless beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCsVXdxBW...
was my most-requested wedding reception song.
just a delight! how about this one?::: -- j
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpGRdX5s...
and Karen::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn...
p.s. . your gulch profile includes "musician," and
I wonder if you talk about your instrument(s) ...
Groovin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0fErmzmf...
A stroll down memory lane.
songs, denon dual-disc + hundreds of custom tapes
and a nakamichi 480 (sounds better than the CD)
with one more engagement -- 50th high school grad
anniversary, 2016 ... with a roadie to help!!! -- j
p.s. the king of the slow songs? here 'tis:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_bkuAZ...
now, *that*'s a prom hug song!!!
Wow! "It's like deja-vu, all over again." - Yogi Berra.
I was just leafing through some old vinyl and paused at a Ronnie Milsap album (There’s No Getting’ Over Me). best tracks- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5wknazz... and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJD4rBMyd...
50th! Hope you still have a lot of friends/classmates to reminisce with. They don't make 'em like they used to.
come up at a reunion -- to see the look on the "hero" football
quarterback's face (nickname "Grunda"), or the
short guy's face (nickname "Pee-wee") -- and they
can laugh about it!
try these:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUG-9jZ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WT7nBGX...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqjBAJx...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QV...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPd9GUa...
good sequence! -- j
Yes, that will make them move on the dance floor. And, when you need to speed things up just a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ceRov1A...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoI-6lQF...
Class of 1966! They will remember these too.
Is capable of creating such beauty in all the arts. Even their buildings and vehicles strive for beauty. They are a puzzle within an enigma. They have the power to reason, they have volition, and yet billions of them prefer horror to beauty, war to peace, irrationality to reason.
They are magnificent and malevolent. If you can read the above and not be touched, there is something missing within.
In the words of the King of Siam, "'Tis a puzzlement."
Without it, we'd still be eating cold weeds pulled from the earth, and huddling silently by ourselves under the shelter of a rocky overcropping, looking upon each day's beauty like the sullen gray of a cold, foggy, dank day, not knowing how to be grateful for each spark that arouses that within us...
passion, which it needs -- Thank You! -- j
there is beauty ... just the caress of a hand can be
gorgeous ... and we should focus on it more! -- j
A look with a smile, a head on someone's shoulder, "goodnight sweetie." Is it corny and yokel-like? Probably. Just call me Rustic Rufus..
one another. second and current (17 years together)
wife and I hold hands 'til ... -- j
p.s. corny? nope!
If someone labels true love "corny", they obviously don't know what it is - and, poor things - probably never will.
where I felt the most safe.
my reply -- "in her arms." . she understood.
that was almost 20 years ago. this new world
makes it even more true. . -- j
the indented version is in the "general" section,
entitled "Watching..." -- j
by having found it, I guess. -- j
and fixed the indents with a trick. -- j
world of lovemaking ... and 20 months before
I was married the first time. odd, but the memories
have not faded about those days -- very special. -- j
in the original, starting with "but it's not your smile" ...
this thing forgot my indents. -- j
"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"