write to your loved ones part 3

As I wrote on the first blog of this exercise you do not have to be a "poet" to writ something sensitive and special to your loved one(s). And "love poem" is not meant just for your spouse -- how about your children? Friends? Parents and grandparents? Favorite Aunt or Uncle? Cousin. Anyhow. Keep it simple. Observations that celebrate the recipient of the poem. Yes, the recipient. The twist is this, the love poem is not about you, not about your gushy feelings, no, it is about the recipient, written in such a way that it celebrates them, and your love. I decided to take one observation and only one to write from today. When we share morning coffee do you know' how delicately you cradle the cup up to your lips and blow off a stream of steam, then you open your eyes wider and look at me and we talk ourselves into that moment when, after refills of coffee and more talk of our day's agendas, we rise from the table and kiss and go into our day each to our own agendas, always, with the warmth of the coffee steam, and the lip touch of the kiss -- and that is when I know again, you are my best friend. OBSERVE OBSERVE OBSERVE and re-write from those observations, simple, straightforward. Jim