Category: Dating

BonApetito

~ Harlan Didrickson

I do love love

But not the baggage

I prefer friendship love

Over the lovership variety

Friendship love is constant

Like a heart beat

It’s thoughtful like unexpected

Greeting cards wishing well

Lovership love is spicy

And hot and explosive

Like jalapeño peppers initially

Sweet and innocently unalarming

Until the sweating starts

And you find yourself

Reaching for anything but

Friendship love is scotch

Warm friendly and fuzzy

Lovership love is tequila

With lime and salt

Followed by a hangover

That lasts for months

JustSayIt

~ Harlan Didrickson

Love demands courage

It requires heart

To stand there

To say it

Without an echo

To remain standing

Accepting its consequence

To walk away

After hearing nothing

Love never replies

It’s only born

Love#73

~ Harlan Didrickson

What keeps love young

Because the same love

That you feel for

Someone at eighteen feels

The same at sixty

Even as we age

In years love remains

Like puppies and butterflies

Isn’t that simply something

TwoFollowsOne

~ Harlan Didrickson

There is one thing

That without the

The first is impossible

It is a gateway

A shortcut through yards

Warmed knife through butter

It just makes everything

Seem easier and natural

Simply fresh and organic

It allows the second

To sprout and grow

To be eventually seen

By others and recognized

The second is love

But first is laughter

KnowThenGo

~ Harlan Didrickson

Once you decide something

There it will be

It’s always been there

You were never looking

Because you didn’t know

That you were looking

For that one thing

We all have ideas

But not specific ideas

Dogs never chase all

Of the balls they

Chase one individual ball

Getting what you want

Is just like fetch

When you know what

All you will ever

Ever see is it