When I Finally Embrace You

So beautiful. What are my thoughts? I do not know if I could come close to a decent description of such a moment. Ellen B

A stirring of past and future
Mixed with hopes of a new and improved love.

Ellen, this poem is in anticipation in meeting a lady who I have yet to meet. Just shared a few mails with her. She's going through lots of changes now but I keep hoping we will meet soon. The question remains shall I embrace her tightly as if I have known her all my life or barely hug her as if she is too fragile.

Janet, I wouldn't say it is a new and improved love but it is a passionate anticipation in meeting her.

Great poem!

Woo Hoo a new love in the works for Spencer...great stuff! ;)

Thank you, Sheila.

Hold up here, Esther. I haven't even met this woman. We have a lot in common in our past and live in the same area but this is just an anticipated first meeting. LOL

Beautiful, Spencer. There's nothing quite like the anticipation of meeting someone new.

This is touching and beautiful. Your images help us feel the anticipation, as well as the prospective joy of meeting.

Embrace her gently and go from there....

Very nice, Spencer. I like the optimism.

(I think you want here instead of hear in this line: or scramble up the hear and now? One of those things that spell check will never catch. Or was this a play on words?)

Your heart will guide you. Great poem!

Oh, Spencer!
This was an absolutely lovely piece of work. How beautiful to question at all.
How wonderous is the anticipation, like that "first day of summer attitude" sits well on you. This takes us all back to those fast, energetic, hopeful, and hesitant days of first dates, first impressions, first dances.

Dive in, says I...and live, and love, and be busy building that life that everyone envies, everyone craves. You'll never know, until you explore it.
Blessings!
Wilka

I think I will go to sleep now and remember that first kiss when I really thought I was loved without condition. Beautiful! Mayhap the dream will justify your poetry. Can always hope. ;) Goodluck with your first meeting, when it happens, Spencer.

I wish you love, friend...

Z'

Cheryl, I must agree. One can talk on the phone or visit through mail but that first meeting is always an anticipation.

Lisa, there is always an anticipation in meeting one for the first time.

Beautiful, beautiful, Spencer.

Colleen, I will be gentle. Hee hee. Was thinking about those hello, glad to meet you hugs when I wrote this. Nothing romantic or salacious but just a plain hug. then I wondered how much of her past will I need to consider. How much of her future should I think about. Should I allow her to wallow on her illness and make our meeting less than it could be? Nope, I want to deal only in the now not before and after. simply enjoy sharing in that time frame and hopefully enjoy the visit.

Sandy, corrections have been made and I appreciate your eyes. I never could edit my own stuff.
The must be optimism in the proposed meeting. If not I don't want to meet at all. As we get older we have a tendency to drag all our baggage with family troubles, illnesses and other negatives to all our meetings and can't figure out why so and so didn't call back. I "assume" everyone has had troubles but why spend any time talking about those when you first meet someone? Can't we just share the moment and enjoy. If there is reason down the road to continue sharing perhaps then we can share more of our negatives. My mind will not allow me to say, "Hello, glad to meet you. You know my wife died a few months back and I can't sleep at night and my daughter's back is out again and the poor child has a seven year old to take care of and you know my right knee is still bothering me." Why can't we notice the lovely tulips near the street and see the beautiful sky unincombered by personal problems? Why can't we watch the river float by and feel the crisp breeze it produces? It isn't necessary to burden each other with life's crap in a first meet.

Right on point, Judi. We often wipe out any potential for a relationship by burying it in all the yesterdays.

Thank you, Heather.

Amen, Kathy. I couldn't agree more. How can one learn more if we never take a chance to find out.

Deborah, I am sure it will happen soon. Our schedules have been haphazard lately but I intend to make it happen before long.

Zara, love is always a possibility but can I at least meet her first? LOL

Thank you, Rosiland. Glad to see you and hope you return.

Beautiful poem. Of course I think you will just know the right thing to do. You seem to have an affinty for looking into people and knowing what is going on with them. Your instincts will guide you when the time comes.

Good luck with your meeting!

This is a lovely poem. Obviously you are a man with a romantic soul.

Another emotion-pulling write!

Lemme say it, honestly...whenever I read your poem, I feel like more of womanhood and it's always a pleasure to read what a man feels when he embraces a woman...truly beautiful.

Spencer, perfectly captured, as always!

Spencer you write the loveliest poems.

very nice


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I just got to this. I have a new perspective. Enemy time. I apologize. I love tulips. Ellen B