Only The Lover Sings

2007-08-19T21:33:00.000-07:00

Love heals...

A little bit of love
just a small gesture
of kindness
or a simple token
of thoughtfulness
means a lot
to heal a broken spirit
or a weary soul
in this life's twists
and turns...

At times
or most of times
we are in a hurry
and we don't want
to get disturbed
in our hurried pace
to go back
to our own isolation
when in truth
it only takes a second
to spread the lips
and smile
or it only takes
few minutes
to make coffee
for visiting strangers
with love in every gesture
it doesn't really take that long.

Much more with internet
can't we slow down
and in silence
even make a difference
in simply being present
to each other
listening and caring
the very soul and hearts
of our dear persons
in the vision and sacrament
we can only call the now!

I sing with all of my heart
love heals, love heals,
love heals the broken hearts
love heals the weary souls
love heals the world
love heals, love heals....

2007-08-05T23:12:00.000-07:00

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, make new." - Ursula K. Le Guin

When I commit myself
to love and be loved
I surrender myself
to love and its own life
in the moments deeply blessed
by sharing and caring
by thoughtfulness and
and memories of the heart.

When I begin to truly love
I leave behind the doorsteps
of my selfish obsessive self
and just simply be there
for the other in total unity
feeling life's freeing joys
or embracing its sorrows.

When I love and forget
that I am loving indeed
without asking for returns
but just the sheer ecstacy
of loving for the sake of it
It is then that I am truly free
and fully human in loving.

When I have made
my errands of love
and came home to rest
I make one last wish
just before I fall asleep
in the peace and quiet
of a luminuous night
may I dream of love again
and wake up clutched by love!

2007-04-07T23:39:00.000-07:00

"Love is ...giving" - just a fact

Love to be love must be something
going out of oneself for the other
no matter how far it can go
no matter how difficult the way
no matter what time it is
for love is eternal and endless.
The giving need not be too big,
it can be just a smile to cheer up
a lonely, sad and isolated heart;
or just a little tiny kind word
to lift up the spirit of a downtrodden.
Love which is giving is a spark of light
in this dark world and selfishness.
Love which gives out is healing
the times lost in unloving ways.
Love gives and receives more
in wondrous state of contentment
only the true one who loves knows.
Each evening, I only ask one question,
Did I give someone my act of love today?
And as I lay down my tired body to bed
my mind and heart is at peace
with my God who is love.

2007-03-07T19:08:00.000-08:00

Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Love is Letting Go
"What kind of music plays in your heart when you learn that part of loving is knowing when to allow another to walk away? - Akin Jones

Love is letting go
in giving freedom to be
for the beloved.
It is listening
the precise echo
of another's heart
for a time apart
and a space between.
It is caring for
the other's good
and well being
more than my own.
It is giving time
and allowing love
to grow quietly in the heart
just letting be
in the art of being with
even from a distance.
It is a liberating
profound experience
of love which knows
no space and time.
posted by bobby713 @ 5:27 PM

2007-02-11T10:31:00.001-08:00

"Love one another as I have loved you" - John 15:12

Today, I sing a love song
It is a love song of a dove
Flying over me and a friend
as I walked along the path of life.

The dove spread its wings
pure whiteness in splendor and beauty
hovering over us, spreading peace
assuring freedom and new hope.

The dove looks with eyes of love
his heart waiting and longing
his feet steady in the air
his head upward and proud.

Then I heard the echo
of the dove's love song
"here am I, my beloved
ready to die for you"!

Martyrdom is love's highest goal
there is a lot to it
than simply letting go
it is just being pure nothingness!

The dove's long song
is also mine and maybe yours
if only I can see through
the chambers of my brokenness.

Love is alive and well
in the depths of my being
nothing and no one can stop
that wellsprings of eternal love!

2007-02-11T10:31:00.000-08:00

2007-02-05T12:31:00.000-08:00

"omnia vincit amor" - love conquers all

Love conquers all,
yes, i believe that
but first of all
in my experience,
I need to be conquered
by love in all its intensity,
its paradoxes and contradictions.
Also, I just felt lately
that to know love
for what it is
I need to allow love
to break through me,
break my heart,
break my illusions,
break my control of life.
Then, in the soft rhythmns
of the present moment
like listening to the sound
of birds even in winter
loves speaks its language
in or out of season.
Yes, only in that nothingness,
only in that darkness
only in that brokenness
I came to understand
the victory of love
in my own moments
of falling to the ground
like seeds deeply sleeping
in the cold winter
only to sprout full of life
and beauty in spring!
Today, I am ready
to love again in the now
and I'm at peace
and secure that love will win!

2007-01-14T19:39:00.000-08:00

"the kind of love that has no price tag on it" - 12x12 p. 106

It is indeed true love
when one simply invest
on loving without
much expectation
of any reward
or recompense
or price, but just loving...

I was seated
by the side of mother
carrying a baby
inside a basket
on a plane
and we talked
about love...

The mother said
that her kind
of love for the baby
is unconditional
24 hours a day
without any price tag
but its so rewarding...

True love is simply
a gratuitous
care, kindness, attention
to the one loved
not minding the time
nor the effort
and even the pains...

True love is self giving
to the maximum
and out of that heroism
of self forgetfulness
comes the true delight
of loving and being loved
and life becomes beautiful...

2007-01-11T09:21:00.000-08:00

"No greater love man has than to lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13

There is war in the world
because there is war in man's heart.
There seems to be no end
to news of deaths in battlefields.

I glance at a newspaper today
and saw a soldier and his girlfriend
hugged so intimately and fondly
before he has to go back to war.

The greatest of wars
is never fought outside
but the heat of the battle
is fought inside our hearts.

The world as it is
continues to be
the land of life
and valley of doom.

Today as I wake up
I just make myself ready
at anytime to lay down my life
to love everyone.

My little act of love today
may not solve the war problem
of the world, but
it can make a difference!

Little tiny acts of love
if we all sum them up
will create an oasis of hope
in our dreary love thirsty world.

2007-01-09T12:17:00.000-08:00

"Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." - The Fox to The Little Prince

The Eyes of Love

- Bobby Sagra

Prodded by love

Guided by faith

I have searched

And found the treasure!

At first it seemed

A hopeless idea

To look into myriads

of Possibilities.

Fatigue, irritation,

boredom were my lot

I was even very close

to utter resignation.

But the love inside

burning steadily in me

guided my search

as light to my path.

Finally I found

what I was looking for

Oh what sheer delight,

indeed love has better eyes!

2007-01-03T12:44:00.000-08:00

"Love and do what you will" - St. Augustine

When everything is rooted
and motivated by love
then everything can end well
and there is nothing to fear.

Love is the antidote
to all forms of selfish
manipulations
of the human heart.

Love is the delete key
of all human errors
and embarassments
in the arena of life.

Love is the link
which binds
each person
in strong unity.

Love compels
the impossible
transcends
the insurmountable.

Love drives the force
and leaves only the daring
and those who keep trying
right there at victory's stand.

There is only one failure
which truly hurts
and that is...
the failure not to love.

2006-09-11T10:30:00.000-07:00

The Many Ways of Love

Out of the bright moonlight
in a quiet night by the river
along the mountain ridges
of an old Indian spiritual place
I came to realize that love
has its many ways...

Listening is also loving
especially when one listens
with a heart to what a friend
really needs, not what one thinks
the friend might need.

Understanding is another way
when I can put myself
in the very shoes and heart
of the one I love,
I can get a glimpse of true love.

Giving of myself is also love's way
my time, my energy and my very self
a joyful gift of love
for the beloved
without any tag price.

Maybe one that is often forgotten
is just being - the way of presence
even in silence, unspoken language
it is still love, it is still real
the in between spaces of stillness.

Or an absence, which makes the heart
grown fonder as the wisdom of the ages
again and again reminds us
for the love to true must endure
some form of not being there.

Finally, I may say
Love to be love must offer
some act of martyrdom
some witness of sacrifice of self
for the beloved - love's highest way!

2006-09-04T09:47:00.000-07:00

M. SCOTT PECK M.D.
defined love as:
"The will to extend one's self
for the purpose of nurturing
one's own or another's spiritual growth."
- From THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED p. 81

And here is what I say...
Love is only love
when it is given
freely, willingly, gladly
spontaneously
what is best, noble
and true to the beloved.

And in the process
of giving and receiving love
there is the blossoming
of each other's lives
especially and surely
a growing spiritual life
is deeply felt
in the mutual assurance
and support of loving,
caring, norturing love.

And in the fruitfulness
of loving, caring and sharing
even the silence and absence
of what is physical
cannot surpass the depths
and heights and widths
of love's horizonless panorama
of what is beautiful and lasting.

The whole world is a stage
and a great space to be
a man, a woman, a child
a person to love and be loved.
I believe that part of the problem
in any spectrum or experience
of life in the world
is the lack of the real experience
of love...

I can only give what I have
If I have no love
meaning the flesh and blood,
the marrows and bones,
the heart and soul
of a true, real, pure
love in me...I cannot love.

John Powel, SJ said once,
"The greatest tragedy
in the world is not having
the experience of being loved
and loving in return."
My new vision of life is
when there is no love
may i bring and gently offer love.

Out of the sad and bleak reality
of abandonment and neglect,
of abuse and isolation,
of anything unloving and false,
here I am today
just ready and willing
to accept and embrace
to value and respect
to realize and achieve
the next perfect act of love!

2006-09-02T15:06:00.000-07:00

"After He has loved His own
who came from the world
He will love them until the end." - John 13:1

It's my Word of Life
given my a saintly figure
a spiritual mother
of many children for unity!

With that word
came a short note
that the vision of my life
will be...that the love
which God so lavished on me
I will gladly share to others.

Oh, love is a breath
it is keeping me alive
every moment
of each new day.
I love when I give
the best of me
at every given moment
to every person I meet.

Who am I
if I do not love
What is love
if not lived out
in the human arena
where heroes are made
in the quality of love
they share!

"Love till it hurts..."
a saint said so,
and I may add a prayer
that I may love till
it hurts no more...
just loving!

It is so amazing
to be always ready to love
and it is awesome
to believe in love
and live in love.

2006-08-30T10:10:00.000-07:00

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
~Meister Eckhart

Truly love heals
when sorrow comes
just a still small voice
of a beloved
is enough to assuage
the wound out of life's hurts

Love is the light
in the sheer darkness
of our world, of our homes
of our tired and weary hearts
at times, a lingering one
at times, just a short visit

Love is the joy
in the midst of sorrow
brokenness or emptiness
its a tickle that takes out
the pricks of those darts
in the way we live our lives

Love is the balance
the very core of peace
in the very midst
of life's adversities
that daily beset us
and discourage us
in our seeking for beauty

Love is the pure contemplation
of a quiet and listening heart
beneath the shadow of yesterday
of the clouds of tomorrow
as long as I am in love today
I will find a peaceful night
to dream of you once again

2006-08-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

Love Poems

Love is a beautiful theme
to ponder and write about
I know not which comes first
the love or the poem ...

The more I think of love
the more the poet in me awakes
The more I write about love
flows the more poetic verses

"Love makes its demands
because it has love first..."
so I heard and memorized
from a wise man.

May this blog reach
every heart that loves
so we may find the joy
and freedom to love without fear!