Jason Sturner

A HOLIDAY FOR THE HEART
"There's a book of poetry
blown open by the wind—
a million words the poets have said,
always a favorite: Roses are red…"

I LOVE YOU
"Not a theory
quite simply a fact—
I love you,
and that's that."

FRESH MORNING
"Hold me close as the sun plays with shadows
when the curtains of our room blow wide
as our hearts beat ever so quietly to the pulse of day
and seagulls scavenge across the falling tide.

Know me when the day is newly born, my love
when the spirit within this aging body is content
as I steal gentle kisses from your soft lips
and inhale the subtle fragrance of this moment."

THESE THINGS
"I have wished to be
the warm, child-long summer
that stirs your playful curiosity;
and dreams across the long winter.

For a time I doubted
I could be any of these things,
or the myriad others
that fill my head each day.

With love, all possibility follows;
it follows me, it follows you.
And all these things wished for
are already true."

LOVE AND WORDS
"I became a romantic, for all intents and purposes,
and bowed as a knight to his maiden in waiting.
I was taken. I was subdued and held prisoner—
I was willing."