In Our Loving Eyes
Some people are stargazers
We were soul-gazers
Looking in each other’s eyes
Windows to the Soul
A Self-reflecting mirror
Drawing us nearer
Love … looking … at Love
© Ken Chawkin
August 31, 2017
Fairfield, Iowa, USA
Written eleven months after she had passed, I would later record this and two earlier love poems for Sali (COMMITTED and This Quiet Love) for a 2019 Valentine’s Day program on KHOE, MIU’s campus radio station. Click here to read and listen to them.
Related: For Us—a tanka honoring Sali and what we shared.
Related poem posted September 22, 2013: Haiku of the Heart – for Sali.
Added October 1, 2017, A tanka remembering Sali and her gift to me on the one-year anniversary of her passing.
This new post, added November 12, 2017, is relevant: 1st anniversary of my India trip to spread Sali’s ashes on the Narmada River, visit Bijouri campus and Maharishi Vedic Pandits at the Brahmasthan.
Posted June 28, 2019: Poem for Sali—An Undying Love—heals the heart.
On August 6, 2025 Bob Roth, CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, completed the morning Zoom world group meditation at 30:40 with this introduction: “This is a beautiful poem by Kenny Chawkin called, In Our Loving Eyes, about the late love of his life.” He then read the poem, twice, and quietly concluded, “Beautiful….” It was emotional for both of us, as he later confirmed in a phone call two minutes after I had emailed to thank him. Sali’s loving memory still lives deep within our hearts.
— Written and compiled (citing sources) by Ken Chawkin for The Uncarved Blog.
Tags: remembering love, soulmates, spiritual love, true love
The Uncarved Blog 
August 31, 2017 at 2:59 pm |
Lovely, Kenny. God Bless.
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August 31, 2017 at 9:27 pm |
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September 1, 2017 at 12:12 pm |
Sounds like a beautiful relationship.
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