Love, After 13 years of Marriage

A poem about the willingness of the heart to open

Softly, your footsteps tread upon the welcome mat of my heart,

Tenderly scuffing off the soil of the day.

Particles of the outside world swept so gently to the edge.

Enter with haste.

For the heart here is ever-ready to receive and to hold you fast

to the sweet murmurings of my sighs.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

This is how love should be after thirteen years of marriage, after thirty years too. It's the hardest job ever, means working in harmony, growing up together, sharing whatever life slings at the pair of you.
You express your heart beautifully and gently .. '.. ever ready to receive and to hold you fast .. '

[.......]

This is a beuatiful write

[FJ Davis]

Wow!--lucky guy.
What husband does not hope this is how his wife truly feels about him? How many of them--this very day--will bitterly discover that she is not nearly so ardent for him as for someone else?
I appreciate the art of, and respect the sentiment expressed in, this very fine poem.

[Patches I'm not so new..]

This is what every man dreams of his mate such a gentle, wistful, wonder of a piece---- this is supurb!

[Ladysue]

oh this is utterly beautiful...tender and love this line..'to the sweet murmurings of my sighs' . this piece is so soft and refreshing flowing with beauty...just lovely...

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

so lovely!

[Jibey]

Only a woman could love in this gentle and all-embracing way...

[ice]

Your "sweet murmurings of sighs" make me sigh..:-)
The poem is sensual, earthy ( scuffing off the soil of the day) warm, and real..
A good poem for me to read before I log out for the evening..:-)

[Lindsay Elizabeth]

Beautiful. I really enjoyed reading this poem. I agree, it has a gentleness to it--softly, tenderly, gentle, murmorings--all of these words create that soft imagery