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20 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
Hi Amberlia,
Check here: http://ambersenglish.blogspot.com/2009/02/concerned-about-brownie.html
Love,
Leo
Valentine
16 Feb 2009 2 Comments
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Valentine's Expression
Feeling it too
From an expression of my love
And appreciation of you
Inspires in me to believe
I have a new life
And a shining appreciation of me
Glowing in your eyes
That makes everything
Wonderful
And possible
Amber in Insadong
11 Feb 2009 1 Comment
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This is when I was in Insadong.
I love Korean tea. 
Happy Valenitines, Amber
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To My Kitten,
Deah Cutie~Cat,
You make ewerysing wondahpuw.
Wub,
Leo~Lion
Art, Living, & Time
10 Feb 2009 2 Comments
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Every day, since I can remember
I’ve waded through the soup of my mind
Among the drawings and poems I’d make
And the voyages I long to take
And about the passage of time
What I have learned today is, that Amber had good feelings and sad
For the kids in her class who were delighted by her, but who were tired from overwork in their young lives
That she too often has little energy to spend on her art
That I still have languages to learn, pictures and poems to make, classes to take
As does she
But along the way, while we’re doing the doing that takes up each day
If there is love, there is success and happiness
And this is a living dream we can relish in
Until our imagined ones become material
Tastier than ’the soup of the day’, we now consume, and the hours drifting away
And yet, love seems the greatest art
The greatest dream there is, to me
~CA
Amazed
08 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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Copyright 2009, by Carl Atteniese Jr. and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved.
‘I miss you a lot!’
The text message
Makes me feel warm
Loved,
And very lucky
So I write in reply:
‘I miss ‘me’ too;
the ‘me’ that is as happy
as the sky is wide,
when I am with you
when it’s ‘me’ and you.
Yes, I miss you too.’
This weekend, like all ours
Was amazing to me
How we resolve things
How compassionately
You talk to me, lovingly
Tenderly
How I seem to be blessed
With what to say
To make you as happy
As I feel
And want you to be
Which makes my life
How many men
Can craft thier dreams
With the greatest woman in the world
Feels like one to me
Thank you
Surprise
06 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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Copyright 2008-2009, by Carl Atteniese Jr. and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved.
How could you be
So much like I me
And better, yet hidden
All my life
Well in this way
A life unfolds
We wait for the one, who makes things whole
And I started!
You weren’t somebody’s wife!
And we can’t complain
For the snows and the rain
Make brighter, the sunny days
And the time we wait
Means nothing is late
For it’s out of our control
And I am happy
And I am thankful
And I am oh so blessed, to know you
“Sometimes” Is Not This Time
06 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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There is Only Now
Sometimes
We’ve no time
To realize what we are hearing
Isn’t at all what someone is saying
And at those times, once we know
We must take a clearer view
Of how and why we hear what we hear
How and why
And say “I’m sorry”
And listen with new ears
Waking Dreams with You
05 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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In the middle of the early morning
I must be with you
In the dark of the lonely night
With the lights on the river bright, shimmering in my sight
Shimmering, like your skin, but shimmering, pale and white
When most souls are asleeping
‘Cause they feel, it’s a quiet night
When the stars, are aweeping
From the occluding glaze
Of the ever-present fog, of a watery haze
That carelessly erases, the stars’ pulsing blaze, loving blaze
Making lonelier, the morning nights
Where shadows blue, of the river
And the sky up high is black, at its greatest heights
Oh I, must be with you
And you, must be with me
Our hearts,
Our souls
And our gardens, soon ablaze
Oh save just for the whispers
And the dreamed~of images
And the impassioned, imagined kisses
And the hushed, spoken~phrase
Our hearts
Our hearts and bodies
And our hands in our dreaming
make this dream
make this dream in loving ways
Oh how I love you
Oh how you love me
And so real, so real it seems
Your candle, I light
And it ‘feels’ just right
Though in reality
You’re nowhere
My love is nowhere, in sight
I must be with you!
You must be with me!
I must be with you!
To ‘touch you’!
To ‘hold you’!
And to ‘kiss you’!
To ‘have’ you
To ‘be with’ you
To ‘see’ you
To ‘mold you’!
I must be with you!
You must be with me!
To love
And
Goodnight…
“I Must Be With You” and “Statuesque” Copyright 2008-2009,
by Carl Atteniese Jr. and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved.
Dear Carl and Amber (Bitna),
05 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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I must say I was very deeply moved by
Your poetry, the words were formed so beautifully.
You inspired me (both of you) so much
That it reminded me of a poem I wrote for Shirl when we first met.
This time it is for you and I hope in my simple way to inspire both of you.
TAKE MY LOVE
I HAVE DECLARED MY LOVE
THE DEPTH OF IT IS INFINITE
I HAVE DECLARED MY LOVE
I PUT MY HEART WITHIN IT
ACCEPT IT PLEASE, I PRAY
I HAVE OFFERED MY HEART,
MY MOST PRECIOUS POSSESION-
IN A MOST TENDER WAY
HOLD IT TO YOUR HEART
IT IS REAL,
YES HONEST, PURE
TURN IT NOT AWAY
SEE IT GLOW-
WILLING TO ENDURE,
FOREVER AND A DAY
Charles F.X. Carroll
It was not my best effort, however,
it got the message to the person I care about
more than anything else I could have said at the time.
Love to You Both,
Uncle C
Me without Bangs
03 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
The light that makes the shapes you see
The way it lies becoming me
I hope it renders grace
But should you spy what’s borne inside,
Beneath the shine and shade
I’d wish you’d know the real beauty
The serenity God has made
Many can look, and be endeared,
Upon the form of youth,
But can they look within and hear
The voice,
And song of truth
_________________
Self portrait by Amber Park;
Poem by Carl Atteniese,
Copyright, All Rights Reserved.
Looking at Art with You
01 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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Copyright 2009 by Carl Atteniese Jr. and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved
Amazed and appreciative
Childlike and mature
Your excited grace
Leading me,
Calling me,
Painting my heart
You look at the colors
And the shapes
We both marvel at the art
And I am all along in awe of you
And how you make me feel
And what I do to you
Amazed that this is real
Saturdays and Sundays with You
01 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
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Copyright 2009 by Carl Atteniese Jr. and Amber Park., All RIghts Reserved
Saturdays,
The two of us
Riding to Seoul
For a meal
To look at some art
To look at our own
To be close
And to make a short time into long
The world is simplified
The world is made more beautiful
And it ends with with elation, conversation
Intense emotions
Healing and extacy
And on Sunday celebrations,
Where we draw and take pictures
And I marvel at your skills
Two artists peering into dreams
The windows of our hopes and future
Where we’re hanging over the sills
I just want to keep falling and never land,
My Love
What I See
28 Jan 2009 Leave a Comment
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Copyright 2009, by Carl Atteniese Jr and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved
Need I words
Oh, I wish not
Though desire binds me
To express a lot
About this light
That defines your face
Revealing all your wondrous grace
…
Were I a musician
Yes, I would play
For you a lovely song each day
Were I a poet
Oh, I would make
Your daily sonnet
For beauty’s sake
You are just so angelic to me
I want for you
And the world to see
The light!
The light!
The shadows true!
Rainnaissance paintings they make of you!
For your serene and gentle face!
It drives my heart a rapid pace!
Da Vinci’s passed!
Carravaggio too!
Waterhouse is gone!
What can we do!
I’ve but one choice!
‘Tis plain to see
With brush and pigment
Set this free
This desire
This passion
And this pain
To show
What’s seen within again
Yet silent now
I can keep not
Desire I’ve to express a lot
About this light
That defines your face
Revealing all your wonderous grace
A Day to Remember
28 Jan 2009 Leave a Comment
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Copyright 2009 by Carl Atteniese and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved
Here you are
There you were
Like a rare flower on a plain
Like a ray of sunlight
Steadily, gracefully, shining
Through a lone space in the clouds
There I was in a realm of happiness
Like a single shell-shocked soldier
Being taken from a combat zone
On a padded satin stretcher
And not alone
High on the medicine that saves me
Staring up at you through that golden ray of sunshine
You’re a lovely angel nurse, holding my hand
In your care, there’s not a scratch left on me
And with the smoke cleared
A spring breeze suddenly has come to me
Through winter, your fragrance on it
You are a living, graceful masterpiece
Before my eyes
Carressing my ears
Touching my heart every day
And on the bus, you took my hand
You put your head on my shoulder
And I felt you were mine then, for now
You’re so very much more than enough, forever
Thank you for saving me
My Love
The Gift
28 Jan 2009 Leave a Comment
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We cannot keep the sunshine
We cannot keep the rains
Nor pretty fallen snowflakes,
upon our window panes
We cannot keep the oceans, nor mountians,
nor the sky
We cannot even keep ourselves
No sense in asking ‘why’
Lovers cannot keep Their beloved
Though their love be whole and true
But I can keep
The Love You give
While I dream of ‘keeping’ you
Thank you for the gift of your love
*
Here is the original one I wrote in New York between our phone calls, when I’d asked if you would like a poem, so I wrote one and called you back and read it to you…
I cannot keep a flower
Nor can I keep the sea
I cannot keep the sunshine
Nor the summer breeze touching me
I cannot keep my parents
Nor my friends so dear
But your love and mine for you
I wish to hold it near
If I could take one thing with me
Into eternity
It would be you
My lovely cherub
So our love
Might forever
Be
Worry not about the time
As you wouldn’t by the sea
Nor with a flower, or the sky
Don’t ever wonder how or why
Please don’t ever try
Just be beautiful,
And with me
Until the time is nigh
Photo and Words Copyright Carl Atteniese Jr. and Amber Park, All Rights Reserved.
Amber, When I Met her…
28 Jan 2009 Leave a Comment
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- Self Portrait by Amber Park
Her eyes are light,
The shape of happiness
Her nose is smooth,
Reminiscent of a cuddly cat’s
Her lips are lines and radiant shapes,
Painted with Vermeer’s brush
And when she is a ‘mirth with me,
My face must be aflush…
Copyright 2008 by Carl Atteniese Jr. & Bitna Park, All Rights Reserved
Angel Nurse
28 Jan 2009 Leave a Comment
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Here you are
There you were
Like a rare flower on a plain
Like a ray of sunlight
Steadily, gracefully, shining
Through a lone space in the clouds
There I was in a realm of happiness
Like a single shell-shocked soldier
Being taken from a combat zone
On a padded satin stretcher
And not alone
High on the medicine that saves me
Staring up at you through that golden ray of sunshine
You’re a lovely angel nurse, holding my hand
In your care, there’s not a scratch left on me
And with the smoke cleared
A spring breeze suddenly has come to me
Through winter, your fragrance on it
You are a living, graceful masterpiece
Before my eyes
Carressing my ears
Touching my heart every day
And on the bus, you took my hand
You put your head on my shoulder
And I felt you were mine then, for now
You’re so very much more than enough, forever
Thank you,
My Love
Copyright 2008 by Carl Atteniese and Bitna (“Amber”) Park, All Rights Reserved.
Bitnacarlo
amberlia
Carl Atteniese Jr.
