I Already Love You

By Anna Boothe and Clayton Boothe

A strong and lasting collection of love poems, guaranteed to work with someone you love. Traditional and free verse celebrating the spirit of selfless affection for husbands, wives, partners and friends with poems by a mother and son team saying "I Already Love You" to each person who picks up our book and reads it. Here is the title poem which "worked" for me: I Already Love You I already love you so it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor or if you spent the last years of your past life with a wife you left for whatever reason. Because it's true I already lov eyou. I can love a quiet painting or the raging sea for itself without history so tell me-- what made your hands so gentle and your eyes so deep and who tught you to smile like sunshine and do you ever weep? And if God granted you one wish instantly-- what would it be? Since I already love you you can tell me the most quiet secrets of your heart intimately the moments you treasure the days you would forget the things you longed for before we met and even the things you would change in me. Because I love you and the past is history. Here we have poems of discovery of love, the early passion that matures into true love for another person, for love for those who have died and love for every creature that walks in our footsteps. An early poem celebrating the passion of physical love in the collection is "Night on the Beach": The sand cool against my cheek and warm against the rest of me sparkles in the flicker of firelight wrm, moist with wanting, body weak casting our future into the night. Solumn silhouette of sleeping canoe reminds me of tomorrow the sharp shafts of sunlight pacifying the body's sorrow. But now, an eternal now clthes our bones with dark shelters our sin with moonlight grace graces our limbs with glow readiates our resting place silver streamers stretching to shore. And wrapped in his wamth I share the bone and softness of him moist on his foam, floating bare on the pillow of his body's swim. And shsdows play patterns on his face with grey gathering to dim. Inside me, warm and light flecked with fire, effervescent and bright I hold the essence of him. The collection ends with a section of deeper poems revealing the mystical quality of love: From a Lost Fragment (Inspired by a Zen Buddhist scrip) Beware among popular men attractive women men who need you practical men experts men who play roles men who watch television sets. For they will bleed you of every love you own. But walk among lonely men beautiful women men who don't need you dreamers amateurs honest men men who watch sunsets. For they love. This collection also has a section of poems by my son, Clayton, as he pursues love with Luba, Clara Voyant and other ladies while writing poems for his daughter, Brittany, and his mother, Anna, who edited the collection. The poems in this collection have won contests and fellowships, published in national magazines, and read on electronic billboards and from orchid gardens overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Now you can have them althogether in this one volume, one strong dose of love poems guaranteed "to work."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517577543
• ISBN13: 9781517577544
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Like mother, like som

My mom compiled this chapbook from a handful of poems I wrote and offered up, plus a bunch by her. I wanted to put together a different collection called “Next of Kin” and include a few of my daughter’s poems too, but I never got around to it. Mom did. If you look past the odd description on Amazon and actually read the poems, you’ll find some gems. Mom was truly a gifted poet. And I got the gene as well. Enjoy!