Our Love, The Storm

Our Love, The Storm
Tom Haupt

A picnic in a breeze,
Some crackers and some cheese,
A cup full of spirit
A spring day meant to please.

The air is cool and sweet,
The sunlight kisses skin,
The bond seems unfettered,
Invincible within.

The chill passes through,
The sun blocked by sudden cloud,
The breeze is now energized
By natural passion in shroud

The setting is tussled
Tossed aside by the gale
All that was pretty
Is now setting sail.

The drops begin falling
The sky beginning it’s tear
Need to find shelter,
Temptation to run to rear.

But forward you face
To find a true place safe
It is in the unknown
Where you find your embrace.

The storm has command
Over items unsettled
Things unrooted,
Things to be mettled.

The trees can be tested,
How deep their roots run.
But trees in tight clusters,
Provide shelter to everyone.

For nature know well
The strength of our bonds
From staving off storms,
Or enriching our songs.

The sky opens wide,
The new day is a foal,
The smell of the forest,
Is enriching our soul.

The meadow is greener,
The flowers stand strong,
Absorbing the prize,
For enjoying the bond.

The trees stand strong,
Seemingly unchanged
Providing its strength,
Unmoved, unstranged.

But, the trees are sustained,
Also, by the soil at the base,
The same as the flora,
The creatures, earth’s face.

Standing a bit taller,
Although seemingly, unseen,
The roots having grown stronger,
The leaves with new sheen.

It is the storm,
That is to blame,
For weathered with pride,
There is no shame.

You are my cluster,
My partner in crime.
I need you beside me,
While we do our time.

The storms are not tell tales
Of a love that has and end,
But the food for the future,
For our subjects to depend.

TH for Sandy, my love.
4-16-2019

My thoughts for 2018:

Anything worth having has a price, a cost, something you have to give in exchange... A sacrifice.  So many people are afraid to love for fear they will get hurt. Know this as a fact: the price for love IS pain. Your dog will die, run away, or get taken... But you love. Your kids will move away... Or worse. Your lover will eventually pass, or move on...something.  Regardless... It is undeniable that the price to love is that you WILL hurt one day. Once you accept this, you can love without concern for the consequence. You will give freely for the wonderful experience it is, in spite of the momentary pain and take from it the memories and warmth. Embrace and accept  the inevitable... And love without consequence... You will be more happy than hurt in the end.

Rocking Chair Fantasy

Rocking Chair Fantasy 

August 16, 2017 

TH 

Just sitting here

With thoughts of you 

Dancing through my mind; 

Nothing else I want to do. 

Wondering what

Is on your mind. 

Wishing that I could 

Make life kind. 

I think of you

Smiling with eyes. 

The room stopped in awe- 

Theirs gasps and sighs. 

I think about you dancing

On the kitchen sink! 

Making each other laugh 

While we have a few drinks. 

I think of your nurturing,

The nature in which you love- 

And how lucky I am 

For the stars above. 

I think of you crazy!

Letting your freedom flow! 

Taking me for the ride; 

The best I have ever known. 

I think of your loving,

Tender and passioned sweat. 

The satisfaction of my soul; 

My needs fully met. 

I think about forever,.

Same smile and greyer hair. 

Looking so beautiful 

In my rocking chair.

I Know You Love Me

I Know You Love Me

TH

10-23-2014

I know you love me

I love you too

I know how you can be

You know me too

I know what you do for me

I love what you see

I feel very proud

When I am all I can be

Sorry for the dips

The holes, and the trips

Sorry for not spending

More time on your lips

I hope you find your smile

It lights a beautiful mile

I like your energy

Your aura, your style.

I know that you love me

I feel it with in me

I know that I need you

To become what I can be

When..

TH

10-31-2014

When the wind blows...you are in  it, and I breathe deep

When the sun shines, you are in it, and I soak you up

When it rains, you are in it, and I let you wash my worries away

When it snows, you are in it, and I let it cover me like a soft quiet blanket

When it storms, you are in it, and I hold on and learn from it

You are in my everything.  I love you

Desire

Desire

TH

5-16-2017

I need you to know you are in need

The force that drives me to succeed

I wake everyday with a desire

To improve everyday with a fire

I need you to know you are missed

My dream, my passion, my kissed

I long to hold you when away

I think of you every minute of every day

I need you to know that you are lusted

To touch, hold and taste is a musted

I hold my pillow tightly when I sleep

Imagining you are next to me, yours I will keep

I need you to know you are connected

My existence has been completely infected

I hurt when you hurt, cry when you cry,

I have a desire to ask what and why

I need you to know that....I love you

Like an ancient power born anew

I simply can't live without you

I can feel that you feel the same too.

When I Am Away

When I Am Away

TH

5-18-2017

When I am away

I miss you every day

I count the days outstanding 

Each day becomes demanding 

I need you always with me 

I am empty if you could see

But if you could see it 

I wouldn't feel like shit

I pass the time just thinking 

Of what you right now doing

I think of you just smiling

The room you are fully lighting 

I can't wait to hold you 

In my arms wrapped by two

Your smell in my nose lingering

My senses just loudly singing 

Soon I will be returning 

My heart won't stop yearning

Counting days till home

I need more than just the phone 

I hope you are not down

With you my love is found

Until I am back in your embrace

I will always see your face

The Rose - A Haiku

The Rose

A Haiku

TH

5-19-2017

A rose in a storm. 

Holds petals so tight

Struggle for rooting

Resisting the destruction 

'Neath cover of love

The Day After Today

The Day After Today

TH

5-21-2017

I will look at you dear

And our youth will be near

You will look to me 

Like you did that first year

I will still yearn to suck in

Your fragrance within

Your hair or your lotion

Even your pheromones in sin.

I will look for my joy

Your smile, my toy

I can bring it back to me

You cannot play coy

I will look to your care

Your kindness, your stare

No matter what happens,

You will always be there

I will know my very place

By the look in your face

It it my lifeline to know

I am not a disgrace.

You are amazed by my desire

You are the spark to my fire

You claim that I move you,

But it is you I admire.

It is you that defines forever

I will not know the word never

Anything is possible

Our love just wont sever.

In you I will find my child

As age comes in mild

We will always be young

Always in style

I will forever stroke your hair

Gaze into your eyes and stare

Watch the world spin on by

While we rock in our rocking chair.

I Think of You

I Think of You

TH

8-16-2017

Just sitting here 

With thoughts of you 

Dancing through my mind

Nothing else I want to do. 

Wondering what

Is on your mind

Wishing that I could

Make life kind. 

I think of you

Smiling with eyes

The room stopped in awe

Theirs gasps and sighs. 

I think about you dancing 

On the kitchen sink

Making each other laugh

While we have a few drinks. 

I think of your nurturing 

The nature in which you love

And how lucky I am

For the stars above. 

I think of you crazy 

Letting your freedom flow

Taking me for the ride

The best I have ever known. 

I think of your loving

Tender and passion sweat

The satisfaction of my soul

My needs fully met. 

I think about forever

Same smile and greyer hair

Looking so beautiful 

In my rocking chair. 

Muted

Muted

TH

8-17-2017

Have you ever struggled

To find the right words?

When "I Love You" 

Sounds like chirping birds. 

So sweet the sound

It warms the heart

But to give a bit more

Than to sound like a lark. 

There's so much more

On this tongue , on these lips 

More than song, more than dance

A sonnet, play or movie script. 

Art is an expression of

A time, a feeling, a place, 

What I want to say is more

All time, all feelings and all space. 

I must have more 

Than the span of this life 

To show how wonderful 

It is with you as my wife. 

There must be a way

To express how I care

How every morning

I watch you and stare

All I have is a long song, 

"I love you" 's aplenty

And the pledge of my heart

The stares are complimentary

I must preserve my voice

For the song is endless

It's all I have to express it

I feel so helpless. 

Voodoo Love

Voodoo Love

TH 9-11-2017

We are two dolls, magically intertwined

Never even noticing as long as we are kind.

But once a pin is inserted into one

The hurting is not done

As the victim recoils in pain

The aggressor feels the same.

They are bound by a passion,

A love ever lasting.

To know the weakness of the other

Is a gift, to be smothered.

Protected by the bearer

As well as the wearer

The gift is for unconditional love

Not a challenge from thrown glove.

It is a responsibility, a charge

Protect us each while at large.

We rescind all of our pins

And realize our sins

We played with our minds

To be right rather than kind.

I love my bond

With my angel's song

I understand my code

To protect your soul.

My little voodoo doll

My lover of all.

With me please learn compassion.

How to love without caution. 

Harvey Comes to Texas

Harvey Comes to Texas

Tom Haupt

9-2-2017

All was calm and sun was blazing

Until the moon began the hazing.

We watched the tube with speculation

Predicting randomly Harvey’s direction

Then it came, the eye near Corpus

That meant several miles west of us.

Knuckle down, and bear the bands

Some rain is coming to wet the lands

It came in quietly, with little stir

Rain hitting softly, like a kitten pur.

But then it stuck and just kept coming

Turning up the volume and started pouring.

Day 2 a deluge, flooding in the streets

Nothing new to our city, this we can still meet.

But it kept coming, and coming in hard

It just never stopped and water in the yard.

Ok Harvey, Poseidon’s other son,

Dropping so much water on everyone.

Can you ease up? Families embracing each other

Turn to see their dreams filling up with water

Good to see you safe, with thoughts and prayers,

Not much comfort as your world is a blur.

Homes inundated, our streets now rivers,

People in shelters, shaking off shivers.

Saviors in blue collars, caring Texan hands,

Reaching out in times of need for their fellow man.

Boats, water, food, and first responders

No one just stands, no one ponders.

Just time to turn it on and act

Grab whatever and pay the pact.

Get out there and do whatever you can,

Because….we are Texan.

Twenty-four seven the rescues continue

Fearful subjects and tired saviors, tired crew 

Plucking lives from the murky shallows

That used to be our blessed burroughs.

Do not despair for us, but watch what ensues

There is a strength that will amaze you.

We will strap up our laces, gloves on our hands.

We will rebuild, make it better…We are Texans!

We will lick our wounds clean and lift our fellow man,

Find homes for our homeless and united we will stand.

We will feed our hungry, give love to our sisters and brothers,

Even those we haven’t met… We will stand with one another.

We will cry together, til tears are gone,

We will then laugh, have a beer, and move on.

There is work to be done, in our streets, in our towers,

Each of us a minor force, but together a force of power.

We are knocked down, in the mud, in the pit.

But we are used to hard work, dealing with all of it.

We will embrace each other and offer our hands,

We will lift each other and rebuild….because we are TEXANS!

Tears of Joy

Tears of Joy

4-30-97

TH

Her hands have held

With gentle grace,

Young hands that wipe

A tear filled face.

Her kiss has healed

The deepest of wounds.

The magic of a love

Started within the womb.

Her eyes have cried

A million tears.

Some for the joys,

Some for the fears.

Her love is glue

For young broken hearts.

Can even see problems

Before they start.

Thank God above

For the warmth within.

The fire of forgiveness

For her own child’s sins.

I stumbled and fell,

Only to be raised,

And encouraged to proceed,

“It’s only a phase.”

I’m a good man…

After all of these years.

But it must have cost

A million tears.

To repay this love…

I’ve wondered how?

The answer’s simple,

Listen up now:

Pass that love

To all that you know.

That is the way

To make Mom glow.

Spirit of Desire

Spirit of Desire

TH – To Tanner from Daddy

1-29-99

A young boy,

Bouncing along.

Dancing to the beat

Of his own song.

Mind like a sponge,

Heart’s desire,

To please all he loves

To put out all fires.

Thriving on acceptance,

Living on attention.

Life is so simple

In spite of complexions.

Boys’ lives should resemble

Puppy dog tails,

His has had more of

The snips and snails.

Twinges of reality threaten,

Yet the spirit of desire,

Holds the fuels

That feed his fire.

Holding within

His little chest

Beats a heart so strong.

Could pass any test.

Daddies, Mommies,

Grampas, and Gramms,

Have much they could learn

From this little man.

Everything will work out,

As things always do…

Just love everyone,

And they will love you.

For when a young boy

Tries on another’s shoes,

He cannot fit anyone’s

Of this he already knows.

Young teacher, my son,

Young student, my spawn,

Your spirit of desire…

I want for my own.

Missing the Storm

Missing the Storm

TH
4-23-97

I like to listen to the rain,
Wish I was a child again.

Empty stare beyond the window,
Not a worry, wish it were still.

Made me jump, the lightning dashing,
Count the seconds ‘till thunder crashing.

The rain still comes and gives a show,
But it’s not eh same you know.

I wish I could rejuvenate,
Regain the way I would contemplate.

Wish you had your childhood still?
The just look beyond your window sill!

Love Starts as an Infant

Love Starts as an Infant

TH
09-25-98

Love starts as an infant,
Innocent and pure.
A strong hope for a future,
Today’s job…just nurture.

The living example of
Saying “ignorance is bliss”
Lucky to be so blind,
Harsh realities… lucky to miss.

Struggling through lessons,
Dreaded terrible twos.
A padded time of hugs,
Kisses and “I love you’s”

Still latching and holding.
Afraid to let go.
Embracing with all might
To the love that you know.

Slight turn to the world.
“My God! It seems so huge!”
I will face it love,
If you come along too.

Bumps and scrapes,
Stumbles and falls…
Each one a lesson that
Next to the bond are so small.

Turning to the world,
Taking it on.
Now able to run.
No longer a fawn.

Reality stinging…
Burn on the face
Turning to love,
Ahhh! The sweet taste!

Freedom to conquer
The worlds beyond.
Would rather be with you.
Of your love I have grown fond.

The greatest lesson
To be learned is so great…
No need to look beyond,
Under your nose is your fate.

A love one matured,
Continues to grow.
Another lesson learned…
You do reap what you sow.

Just Beyond Reach

Just Beyond Reach

1992

TH

Reach for the lightning;

Get yourself some.

If you are frightened

Then you’ll get none.

Not a one has ever been caught,

Ne’er a bolt has;

But those who have tried,

Have found better paths.

Harnessing that power…

It was never meant to be.

But the fear of trying…

Then you’ll never feel free!

Reach for the lightning,

Hell! Aim for the stars!

Take your experiences,

And put them in jars.

Keep reaching and striving,

And I think you’ll find…

Instead of stars and lightning,

That you caught a good life!