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
I would later record this and two other love poems for Sali (COMMITTED and This Quiet Love) for a 2019 Valentine’s Day program on KHOE, MUM’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.
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