Thanks to Peter Chelemedos for sending me some of his best “love lines” written for his wife Kay back in 1943.  He uses a lovely poetic strategy, repetition of a key phrase at the end of each stanza: “I have known melancholy,” “I have known solitude,” “I have known love.”  Capped by the final lines: “I have looked to the depths of your big brown eyes, Found there the love for which passion cries.  Quickening the beat of my heart…I have known you.”

Peter is now in his 90s. He and Kay live in Edmonds. I've had the couple in writing classes for about the last 20 years. Their love story is true, as I've seen it played out in those many years.
Ariele

"ELAINE"

On a wet November night in '83

early in the A.M.

after a long days work

and your passing,

I've left my car in some lot

and walked so the journey

home would be long

and the memory of your

life would linger deep into

the tired bones of my legs

at sunrise.

W S Fisher