Todays poem is from my 1995 book, A Different Side Of Me. While I have a poem with that same title, I have chosen another one to share with you at this time. This book has 7o poems in it. They are mostly about love, you know, that sappy junk, and I feel like they are wasted work now, written while I wasn't even with anyone. They were written about an image, an idea, a theory of sorts, and I've wished many times through the years that I'd never written them.
I still feel what these words try to portray, but I'm feeling it for a certain special someone now, and so much stronger than ever before! We are getting married in May (MAY 8- Me And You, Forever!) and though I feel like I should be a better man before I try to be her husband, I am so excited, though quite nervous, about my upcoming new life.
I will still post poems from this book in my rotation. They are what they are. Maybe someone can get something out of them. After all, Hallmark cards are written by someone else altogether and they're given to others as means of expressing what you feel.
Todays Poem is entitled If Only You Could Feel It. Here Goes:
If Only You Could Feel It
Sweetheart, I wish there was a way
That I could get you to see
The strength of my love for you in my heart
Beatin' away inside of me
Don't know how many times I've tried
To put these feelings into words
But there are no words in the English language
That wouldn't make it sound absurd
And even if you could capture that true feeling
And hold it in your own two hands
There's no way on earth, with just paper and pen
To get someone to truly understand
You'd have to draw from your deepest emotions
Utilize everything within your soul
Gather what you can from your spirit
And grab the very essense of what makes you whole
You must capture what you've lived from your yesterdays
Add the promises of all your tomorrows
Multiply the sweetest sound on earth a hundred-fold
And you still wouldn't be anywhere close
Can you find every ounce of your passion
Mix it with the innocence of a newborn child
Contain the breathtaking awe of a sunset
Steal the natural harmony of a wolf in the wild
A photograph ain't enough; a memory won't do it
No stretch of imagination could reach
When you measure the dimensions of the vast universe
It's like but a drop from the deep blue sea
Pick the most happiest day out of your entire life
Combine it with the sweet scent of a rose
Borrow the strength of the hatred between a man and his killer
And pour it into the mystery of the things God only knows
Summon the riches of a devout tribal tradition
Secure the courage behind a sacrifice
Yank the potency of a heartache out of a widowers chest
But you will only find that it still won't suffice
Get someone to give you the ecstacy
Of the two young lovers' first kiss
Sieze the miracle of immaculate conception
But something would still be amiss
Beg for the answer to a question never spoken
Search for the truth in a vehement lie
Bring me back the curiosity from a door never opened
And an ounce of the pride that won't let you cry
Hold all these things in your own sweet hands
Feel the overwhelming power in each one
If the love in my heart was equal to that
My love would have only just begun
My Sweet Princess, If only you could feel it
This is the love I've been trying to show
It's what I feel each time I say I Love You
And the closest I could get to what I wanted you to know.
Nelson Coblentz
12/02/95
545am
I know that when one person reads another person's words, they don't always mean the same thing to them, but this poem was my 'epic' for a while, might still be. Its like describing fire or explaining milk- how do you do it?
This poem was written before I started entering them in poetry contests and was limited to the number of lines they would accept. A lot of my earlier poems are longer. you'll see, as time goes on, most of them will be right around 20 lines, which is their limit, for some reason.
I hope you get out of it what I meant to put into it. I know it took a lot out of me.
Here is the entire contents of the 1995 book, in case you wanna follow along:
- There's enough of me (To love every bit of you)
- In honor of
- Tell Me, please
- Up In Smoke
- Lucky Me
- When It Comes To You
- That Special One
- Love And Understanding
- Of All The Things In this World
- Together (We Can Make It)
- Somebody To Love
- I Can
- Know
- Never
- I Can Still Love
- How Much Of A Beating (Can This Heart Of Mine Take)
- A Song Without A Tune
- What I'm Trying To Say
- Again And Again
- I'll Be The One
- Two People In The Same Ole Love
- Would A Girl Like You
- If She Doesn't Know Already
- A Fighting Chance
- I Saw Cinderella
- When Your Wild Days Are Through
- I Was Thinking Maybe
- All That I Need To Know
- I'm Not Just Looking
- I Hope You Know
- But There'll be Love
- If I Never Fall In Love Again
- Ring, Ring, Ring
- He Got What He Deserved
- With Just your Smile
- When I see Her Again
- The You Inside
- Take Me
- Hand In Hand
- Learning To Grow
- Keeps the World Spinning 'Round
- This Crazy World
- You've Got Another Thing Coming
- this One's For You
- Before you Answer
- Just As Soon As This Song Is Over
- Love Only Knows
- If It Ain't Too Late
- It's What You Do
- Heart, Soul, Body and Mind
- The Way It Will Be
- Love, O.B.O
- The Enemy Within
- An Angel In A Pair Of Blue Jeans
- Playin With Insanity
- Screaming
- A Different Side Of Me
- A Time
- If Only You Could Feel It
- You Can't Run Away
- Let It Rain
- Suddenly
- One, Two, Three
- I Had A Cancer
- Moving On To Another Heartache
- Ode To The Zodiac
- What I Heard She Said
- Cliffhanger
- Childhood Treasures
- Would You Let Me
And there you have it, folks! Thats my 1995 poetry book for you. I know, another long blog. i hope they don't get boring or tiresome to read through, but once I get through these introductions, it won't be AS bad. Just to warn you, though, 1996 was a busy year for me- that book has 140 poems in it! We'll get through it!!
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