WIFE(For Anu)
Each new day
I fell in love
with her
anew.
'Anu! '
'Anu! '
Her name
a spell
that made
my heart joyful!
And each day
of our marriage.
I married her
again & again
enraptured by the eternal
newness of our love.
*****
WIFE(For Anu)
Naked she
undressed
took off her skin
layed down
her bones
bone
by
bone
unfastened her pulse
placed it
at my feet.
'I love you this much! '
her soul cried.
She kissed the tears
in my eyes...my eyes.
****
WIFE(For Anu)
Hmmm! Typical!
An ocean wishes it was
...a stone.
And stone dreams of being
nothing...but water.
Water!
Water longs to be
...sky.
Endless sky.
Everything
it seems
wants to be
everything else.
My love
happy always
to be
your love.
The endless ocean
of you
the horizon of you
where dream & reality
are one
& I
a little stone
lost beneath
wave after wave of you
singing
happily
to myself.
****
3 poems called WIFE(because I married her 3 times) for my fantastic Finnish wife. She often signed herself 'Anuwife' so this became a term in itself. These are just 3 aspects of her conjured up by just the very sound of her name.
Dónall Dempsey
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