Writing a poem is like discovering your soul because
sometimes the hardest thing in life to face is yourself
but the words that come out of my head reflect my past
and some of the times that I wish would have lasted
just  little bit longer.                                                          ­        

Some of my loves were like a fire that sparked quickly
and then  burned with intense heat but some burned
out quickly and my soul seemed lost in the flame
leaving me never the same.

The soul tries to bring harmony and order out of chaos
and it attempts to introduce meaning and affect where
there was none and it  gives highs and lows to a landscape
that was previously flat.

The words I write define my soul and who I am and what
roadblocks I have had and finding the strength and courage to
overcome and the ability to forge new roads through the
disappointments that I have had to face.

And as I look at the words that come to paper I realize
that I am not my pain and I am not my past but I have
discovered my soul and these words have filled a great
big hole knowing that love comes to those even though
they have been disappointed and to those who still
believe even though they have been betrayed and to
those who can still love.

Only a powerful soul can offer love and be humble and
my words have helped me to discover this and let me
realize that any time not spent on love is wasted.
                                                         ­                             Jon York   2017

As my emotions
become intense
they spill out on
to paper in ink
as words that
sometimes make
one think.

I am just a traveler
searching for purity
and in my travels
I have learned not
to count the days
but to try to make
each day count.

10 years of time in
the blink of an eye
as the years go by
so quick it almost
makes one sick.

Mindset is everything
because every day
is another chance
to change your life.

We have to believe
that we are here to
make a difference
and not just to exist.

A risk is worth taking
as long as it is for a
good cause and
contributes something.

Good things come to
those who believe
in themselves and
better things come
to those who are
patient and live
in the now but the
best things come
to those who never
give up and keep
getting back up
after being knocked
down.

So put away that
frown as you look
for that purity that
sometimes rarely
comes around.                                  Jon York           2014

If you don't
let the past
die, then it
won't  let
you live.

Do not give
your past the
power to define
  your future.

Two things prevent
us from happiness:
living in the past,
and observing
      others.

Care about what
other people think
and you will always
be their prisoner.
                                                                                          Jon York    2021

Excuses will always be there for you
and opportunity won't, so remember
how far you have come along with
everything you have faced and all of
the battles you have won and all of
the fears you have overcome, while
realizing that life is too ironic to be
fully understood and remember that
you have the power to make the future
better than the present if you  have
power over your circumstances instead
of letting your circumstances have
power over you.

A positive attitude gives you power
over your circumstances so know that
you have the power to change your
life at any given moment and never
forget that, so laugh at the confusion,
smile through the tears, and keep
reminding yourself that everything
happens for a reason.

Everyone sees what you appear to be
but few experience what you really are,
so remember it takes sadness to know
what happiness is, noise to appreciate
silence, absence to value presence and
remember that no one is you and that
is your power, so live your dreams and
take risks because life is happening now.
                                                            ­       Jon York     2016

Some memories
                  never  leave  
       your  bones.  Like  salt  in
           the seas they  become  
                 part  of  you.
           The smell of her hair,
              the taste of her
            mouth, the feeling
                 of her skin  
         seemed  to get  inside
              of me, or into
            the air around me.
                    She had
      become  a physical necessity
          and  we  were  in  bed
     together  laughing  and   we  
                didn't  care
            about   anything.
         The  strongest  drug
   that  exists  for  a   human  is
         another human being
                   and the
                little things?
         The little moments?
                They aren't
                      little.
                                  ­                                                        Jon York   2019

You are there for me
when I need you to be,
it is so easy to see
that you belong to me
and that I will grow old
with you by my side
just like you had always
been there, but I was
just too blind to see.

Words had carried
my love to you and
now we are face to face,
in each others arms
knowing together
we will win this race.

Tomorrow is another day,
but tonight I hold you
as I watch the world
flying by in the blink
of an eye, your smile
engraved in
my every thought,
knowing that I love you
as much now as I did
on that very first day.

I still feel the warmth
from your glow and
the beating of your
heart deep down
inside of me and we
both know that it
is about you
that I am.                Jon York    2011

If I could find a word
to describe how I feel
about you, I'd write it
over and over again
in a love letter to you.

You bring the best
out in me and I know
that you can see
what your love
does to me.

The way you hug
me in the morning
as I sleep and the way
that you kiss me
goodbye as you leave,
trying not to wake me.

Your actions speak
volumes and by them
I know that you truly
love me and I don't
have to ask, because
we both know that
this kind of love lasts.

As the years seem
to fly by, we both know
that neither of us
have to cry anymore
because there is
so much love in store.

Our hearts now
have a home and
know that they are
no longer alone.                     Jon York         2014

Into my world she came,
because of her I will
never be the same.

From her first look
into my brown eyes,
she knew that there
would be no more lies.

It was as if she felt
my need for her and I
could sense her need
for me.

Able to read me like a
book, just from her first
look, she knew what to do,
what to say and how to play.

We both have hoped and
prayed for this moment of
being united with the one
that we  have been waiting for.

Together we are one, for this
we have waited so long and
now we both know that
our past is gone, and for now
we have found one another
and will give the most we can
to what we have.

The love between us grows
stronger everyday, and we both
know it is a love that is here to stay,
and this be all I need to say.
                                                           Jon York

Embrace
          uncertainty,
              some of
              the most
              beautiful
       chapters  in our
  lives won't have a title
           until much
    later in our time here
          on this earth .

     Today I want to think
       about all that you
are instead of all that you
                are not.

      Your ability to listen
to  and  take  action  based  on
          your inner voice -
  regardless of how you feel,
          other influences
        or temptations you face -
               is the key to
               self  mastery.

                       The
               impossible
                   is often
                      only
                the untried.
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

Her blue eyes
like the changing sea.
    Her blond hair
soft as a rose petal.

    Her childish grin
hides her crazy and
    evil ways.

    Her laughter,
unique with no rhythm,
as if she was calm, sweet,
    and innocent.

    Standing there
staring with fire in my
eyes I grabbed her close
with a passionate kiss
holding on to her like I
was never going to
    let her go.

    And then I wake up
remembering this so
    real dream.                                                                    Jon York    2021

Looking out at the road rushing under my
wheels, looking back at the years gone by
like so many summer fields, in 66 I was
holding my first love  and she really took
me, the way she looked so fine and now
50 years later she is still on my mind.

You got to do what you can just to keep
your love alive and try not to confuse it
with what you do to survive but I know
that so many years later, she still
remembers me and who knows,we may
meet again some day, and I will say to her
love the life you live.and  live the life you
love and know that life is to be enjoyed,
not endured, and do things that move you,
knowing that every day is a new day, so
be yourself and the ones who really belong
in your life will come to you and stay.

Everyone I know, everywhere I go ,people
need some reason to believe,  but I do know
that love is a story that never gets old, a
taste so sweet, so full of forgiveness, and
letting go, with a kiss that enters the soul.  

Today I turned 69 and I am going to
experience as much as I can while learning
from my mistakes and find the causes
of my problems and eliminate them,
knowing that the future is so uncertain,
and the end is always near, which is why
I hold life to be dear, knowing that a little
love goes a long way, and a lot of love
goes forever, so I will understand and have
courage, as well as be strong, knowing that
love will come my way again some day,
even at my ripe old age.        
                                                   Jon York    2017

Seventy-Four years old this  past  September 20th.
The years went bye so very fast but I think I'll last
several  more and this  is what I have to say about
the elegance  of  time.

Time is one of  life's  valuable  commodities. Don't
take time for granted. Let what drives you  be  the
knowing that the clock is ticking.

Time dies,  life goes on and the minute you  think
the past  was  better, your present is  second-hand
and you become vintage.

We are all just stories in the end, just try to make
yours a good one, eh?

"Life  will  send  you  whatever  experience  you
need  to  stimulate the  evolution of  your consciousness."  
                                                             Eckhart Tolle
                                                                                                Jon York  2022

I felt you before I knew of your existence,
maybe it was a hint from the universe to
continue on the yellow brick road so when
I would find you along my travels I would
simply just know.

We are connected, wide and deep and no
one can remove this connection that we
have because you are part of me, I am
part of you for ever and ever.

I am who I am partly because of you and
you are you partly because of me.

In spite of being apart we connect through
our dreams and we could be a thousand
miles apart, and I'd still know you were
there.

Re uniting with you was like a blaze of
connection-or collision, as we were both
wandering in the same labyrinth and
had finally rounded that corner that
brought us face to face.........................
(phone to phone) and it was a feeling of
being lost and alone, and then suddenly
neither.

I could never hate you because we are
too connected and I couldn't hate you
without hating myself.

Invisible threads are the strongest.

No matter what happens, this much is
certain: our souls are one until life closes
the curtains.

A part of me will always be you and a
part of you will always be me.
                                                             ­   Jon York   2018

Yesterday is a
cancelled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only
cash you have
- so spend it
wisely and take
the time to look
around you and
see the beauty
and love that is
out there and
realize that people
do care even
though your life
may have been
unfair.    
                                  Jon York   2016

It can go
ever so slow
or just way
too fast.

When you
hurt it just
seems to last
forever and ever
as the pain just
seems to
hang on.

When
everything feels
right time
just flies by at
the speed
of light.

When you
watch the clock
time just
creeps along like
a giant rock.

Like lightning
the present
becomes the past
and you blink
and you don't
even have time
to think....

It is said
that time heals
everything leaving me
to wonder how long
do I have to wait
for this pain to end
even knowing that
by keeping it
I have nothing
to gain.                               Jon York                     2012

Think about it,
          your best
    dreams  and  your
    worst  nightmares
      have the same
    people  in  them.
        So  love  all,
          trust few.
     Everything's real
             but not
      everyone's true.
  So  be  loyal  to  your
          future, not to
  your  past and  do  not
         depend on
anyone too much in this
              world,
       for  even  your
              shadow
      leaves  you when
           you enter  
            darkness.

Open your mind before you open your lips and before you try to tell someone that they are living the wrong kind of life. Being different is the only thing keeping the world beautiful.
                                                                              Jon York   2019

it's all right. . . .
to have a passion for life
and to keep trying to get it right
at any age as long as
you don't lose sight of the world
around you and you don't
take love for granted.

it's all right. . . .
if love finds you at any age
during your years
but remember to
turn the page so there
will be no tears.

it's all right. . . .
to make your passion for love
like a flame of fire
that burns into your soul
making it whole.

it's all right. . . .
to have the courage
to embrace your dreams
and to have the strength to
sacrifice for them
and the determination
to fulfill them.

it's all right. . . .
to recall old hurts
but remember that nothing
is gained by living in the past
and that it is all right to
forgive and forget
and to share what you have
with those who have so much
less than you.

it's all right. . . .
to avoid temptation
because as you grow older
it starts avoiding you
and it's all right to forget that
you are absent minded
because we get old too soon
and smart too late.

it's all right. . . .
if you are old but
still have something on the ball
but are just too tired
to bounce it.

it's all right. . . .
to be human.             Jon York           2013

Getting  your  **** together  requires
a  level of honesty you can't imagine.

There's nothing easy about realizing
you're  the  one that's  been  holding
you  back  this  whole  time.

     YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE :
No  one is  going  to save  you. This
life of yours is 100% your responsibility.
No  matter  how  you  feel,  get  up,
dress up, show up, and never give up.

If  you're  searching  for  that  one
person that can change your life,
take a look in the mirror.

You don't always have to tell your
side of the story.

Time will.
                                                                                               Jon York  2023

We all have
our dreams but so many
of those dreams are shattered
because the world
isn't what it seems
as everybody has their
own little schemes.

No one is real
but we all are the same
just with different names
and either part of the have's
or part of the have not's
or one of the many
in betweens.

This is the world
that we live in and things
will never change
because the rich get richer
and the poor get poorer
so all we can do is
open the door and try to get
some more of what society
says we need to make
that dream come
true.

So we try
and we lie to ourselves
and everybody else
and end up being
not what we
really seem so we can
live that dream                                    Jon   York    2012

The heart, such a delicate part
of the human anatomy
because it can be so easily bruised,
so easily hurt, and easily broken
but sometimes when it needs to be,
it can be one of the strongest parts
of our body and it will
carry you through when
all else has failed.

Everyone plays a part while
trying to protect their tender heart
but it breaks so easily and sometimes
it is so very difficult to repair
and make a new start.

So sometimes you have to try
to not think with your heart
but you will find that this is where
the love that you feel will always
start and that is in the heart.

Take the time to think about
what you are doing before
you involve your heart if you can
but remember the heart
is always hungry for love
and that it has to be fed
or you will just feel dead.

Give love to others
and you will receive
all of the love that you need
but learn to protect your heart
from the very start.             Jon  York            2013

Be. . .prepared for the journey of life and where
it may take you.

Be. . .prepared for anything that may come your way
knowing that some will lose and some will win,
                                       but we will never be here again.

Be. . .creative and dynamic in your thinking and
doing and happy, because life is too short to
be anything else.

Be. . .strong when you are weak,
brave when you are scared, because you will
need it if you expect to survive.

Be. . .humble when you are victorious and happy
because life is over before you know it.

Be. . .thankful to be alive knowing that every minute
you have will never come again.

Be. . .the first to apologize, the first to be bravest
and the first to forgive and be the happiest.

Be. . .patient, everything is coming together.

Will it be easy?
               Nope.
Worth it?
              Absolutely.

Trust the process and do the best you can until
you know better and when you know better,
do better.                                                          ­   Jon York     2016

Your clothes
         look
   nice on my
    bedroom
        floor.
   Yes I have a
    ***** mind
          and
   you're running
        through
            it....
         naked.
                                                          ­                                Jon York  2019

I have no special talent,
I am only passionately
curious about life and I
know that our life is a
message to the world, so
I try to make mine
inspiring.

People may not always
tell you how they feel
about you, but they will
always show you, PAY
ATTENTION.

Learn to embrace reality,
even if it burns you and
if you do what you love,
you will never work a
day in your life.

Creativity is intelligence
having fun and the creative
adult is the child who
survived, so  go confidently
in the direction of your
dreams and live the life
you've imagined and
remember that nothing is
worth it if you aren't happy.

Never let you fear decide
your future and grow
through what you go
through and you will find
that your hardest times
often lead to the greatest
moments of your life and
if you keep the faith, it
will all be worth it in the
end.
                              Jon York    2017

I remember. . . .
When I first heard your voice
and I knew at that very instant
I had no choice but
to make you mine
in time.

I remember. . .
That you saw my pain
and my sorrow and you made
me look forward to
another tomorrow
and you made me laugh
and feel alive again.

I remember. . .
The first time we touched
and it seemed so right
that I never wanted to let go
and when you told me
that you loved me
and it set me free because
I not only believed it,
I felt it too.

I remember. . .
When I felt your smile
as we kissed and
as we lay in bed together  
nothing else mattered.

I remember. . .
when you called me
just to hear my voice
and thinking to myself
where would I be if you
hadn't come along
and set me free.

I remember. . .
the feeling of your body
so soft and warm as you
slowly rode me
through the night
and oh my what
a beautiful sight.

I remember. . .
telling you that I once
knew a place cold and frightening
and bitterly blue
and if you should find
yourself there too
I'd hold your hand
and walk with you.
                                           Jon York                2013

In my life you once came,
then like the wind you were gone
and my heart ached, my body hurt.
Where did you go?

Not a word, not a clue,
but you were always on my mind.

Love came but it never felt the same.
I tried to let you go,
but in my mind you stayed,
in my heart you laid.

Where you were I never knew,
and now many years later into my life
you came, which reignited such a flame,
a lot of lust and passion we both feel.

Should I put my whole heart in it
or should I let it go?
For in my mind I have to wonder,
will you stay or will you go?


May the flowers  remind  us
why  the  rain was necessary.                                         Jon York   2021

So good
so glad,
with her lies
things became
bad.                                     Jon   York                 2012

It's been awhile
since I've been able to smile
and hold my head up high
and there is really no
reason why.

I have been
given a mind to discover
and talent to create
but I am always just
a day late.

I spend so much time
wondering why I just can't relate
to so much going on out there
in a world of hate, lies,
and little trust and of course
those great big egos.

The world that I create
around myself is filled with
love, truth, honesty, and kindness
yet this is a world
no one chooses to see
around me because
of what I used
to be.

Almost as if I wasn't real
yet others always
seem to be looking for
something
to steal.

There are countless
paths of knowledge and many
ways to give
but only I can live the life
that I really want
to live.

Get rid of my pain
I tell myself
this pain from losing people
and things that
I thought were here
to stay but seemed
to go astray.

I give love at the risk
that it will not be returned
and when it isn't I wonder
if I am giving too much love
or not enough
but the pain still comes
just as surely as
the rain.

I try to free myself
from the wasted past of things
and loves that were
never meant to last
and I try to never feel guilty
because I didn't live up
to another's expectations
or because I didn't meet
another's standards.

One of these days I hope
that I will be able to finally see
all of what has been going on
right in front of me
so that I can be
set free.

But for now
I just allow the words to flow
and I watch where they go
hoping that they might
catch someone's eye
and be read before
I am dead.                                                       Jon York                2012

Every year is getting shorter
as I get older and the seasons
come and go at the speed of
light but the Winters feel so
cold and slow and the Summers
feel long and hot as you look up
and everyone you know has aged
almost beyond recognition and
you wonder how they let themselves
get in such a condition as the pages
keep turning and you wonder to
yourself, "do I look that old?"and for
your youth you are yearning.

As I look for something to say on this
lazy Summer day, I know that I am a
strong person, but every now and then
I need someone to take my hand and
say everything will be all right because
sometimes it is the little things that
matter and the few kind words that
people speak and the few precious
moments that we choose to keep
forever in the back of our minds
as we ride out the final years in
what sometimes feels like an
endless grind.

Forget what hurt you, but never
forget what it taught you and
don't promise when you're happy,
and do not reply when you're angry,
and do not decide when your sad,
and know it's better to bite your
tongue than to eat your words
knowing that the word listen contains
the same letters as the word silent
and know character is how is how
you treat those who can do nothing
for you.

There will always be a "lie" in believe.
an "over" in lover, and an "end" in
friend, an "us" in trust, and an "If" in
life, so be kind, for everyone is fighting
a hard battle and realize that the happiest
people don't have the best of everything,
they just make the best of everything
so don' be afraid to swim upstream
to find that dream.
                                                       Jon York     2016

Have the courage
to stand for
something, do not
be content to wait
and see what will
happen and have
the determination
to make the right
things happen,
and they will.

Recognize and use
opportunities that
come your way
and make it your
day and your life
will start going
the right way and
listen to your heart
from the very start.
                           Jon York   2018

The only things we do
    two by two
we pay for
   one by one.

Someone once said this world is a stage
and each must play his part and
fate held me as a lover and you as
my sweetheart and Act I was where
we met and I loved you at first glance
and I thanked the author for this part
and for giving me this chance.
You said your lines so cleverly as you
never missed a cue and I was the
happiest man on earth and then came
Act II and you seemed to change, acting
strange just why I never knew until
you went away and left me alone and
blue.
if you lied when you said you loved
me I had no cause to doubt you but I'd
rather go on hearing your lies than to
go on living without you.

I swore the day I met you that I would
win your heart and I vowed that day
I'd get you to yield to Cupids dart and
I've rued that fascination and I wish I
could forget you but I have one
consolation - I swore the day I met you.
                                                                        Jon York   2017

Every  time  I open  my  eyes  I  unlock
a world of wonder. Sometimes  I'm
an angel, sometimes I'm a devil, sometimes
I'm in-between.

Sometimes I'm as bad as it can get and
sometimes as good as it can be. Sometimes
I'm a million colors, sometimes I'm black
and white and sometimes I'm all extremes.

Try to figure me out you never can.
There are so many things I am.

I have lived a thousand lives, I have
loved a thousand loves.

I have walked on many different worlds
and seen the end of time, seen life and
death so horrific that it defies description.

In small matters I trust the mind. In
large matters I trust the heart.

For important decisions I empower my
mind to do what it does best and my
heart to do what it does best.                                           Jon York  2022

"Life is beautiful so let us
admire it and realize our
dreams as our journey begins
and let us go confidently
in that direction so it seems
and know my black haired beauty
that it is only you that will do.

I can feel your presence and
I can feel your touch and as
I close my eyes to the darkness
I can feel your heart beating
next to mine as you wrap
your body around me one
more time.

Where do we go from here
and is what we have something
that we can hold to be dear
as we both know  that our
happiness is up to us and
even if we run, walk, stumble,
drive or fly, we can never
lose sight of the reasons for
our journey and the rainbows
that we might see along
the way.

For as long as you love me
I will love only you and
as long as forever my love
will be true because where
there is love there is only you
and always  remember
that from mornings first light
to evenings last star how
special you really are.

You found me when my life
was way off track and you
took my hand and guided
me back by taking my heart
and giving both of us a new
start and we did this by not
gazing at each other but in
looking in the same direction
and if I now know what love
is, it is because of you.              
                                           Jon York                   2013

The mind is
              like water. When it's
           turbulent  it's  difficult
                          to see.
                 When it's calm,
           everything  becomes
                           clear.

                  Sometimes we
            must be hurt in order
                       to grow.
                 Sometimes we
        must  fail in order to know.
                 Sometimes we
            must  lose  in  order
                       to gain.
         Because   some  lessons
                 are  best  learned
                    through pain.

                        Be soft.
            Don't  let  the  world
                 make you hard.
                       Do not let
             the  bitterness  steal
               your sweetness.

                       You learn
           a lot about people when  
               they don't get what
                     they want.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019

We are just mortal beings in an
ever-changing phenomenal existence
and our life would be very empty
if we had nothing to regret but
at the same time we have to know
that kindness, beauty, and truth can
show us the way and give us the
courage to face life for another day.

Life may not be the party that you
had hoped for but while you are here
you should always try to remember
to not ask for much knowing that the
truth will do just fine and you need to
accept what is, let go of what was,
and have faith in what will be.

It is good to discover people who are
worthy of respect, admiration, and love
but it is vital to believe yourself deserving
of such things so act without acting,
serve without serving, map difficult
through easy, and approach great
through narrow.

We are born soft and weak but die
stiff and strong while sometimes sincere
words are not pretty and pretty words are
not sincere and remember that we all
have to go through the same thing,
we are born, we do some living, then
we die, but so many never know why
and having no clue, they just live and die.

Know that a mediocre person will tell
you something, but a good person will
explain it to you, while the better person
will demonstrate it for you, but the
great person will inspire you so open
your eyes so that you may see the beauty
that surrounds you and open your ears
so that you may hear the joyous sounds
of the world and slow down so that
you may have time to revel in the
glorious world around you and know
that all that you touch and all that
you see is all your life will ever be.
                                                               Jon York      2014

ATTRACT  what  you EXPECT,  REFLECT  what   you  
     DESIRE,  BECOME what you  RESPECT  and MIRROR  
     what  you  ADMIRE  and  
     DECIDE,  COMMIT, SUCCEED and may your  heart be  
     BRAVE,  your   mind  FIERCE  and  your  spirit   FREE.

    Be   STRONG   but  not   RUDE  and  be  KIND  but  not  
    WEAK  and  be  HUMBLE  but   not TIMID and PROUD
    but not ARROGANT and  be  so  BUSY  LOVING  LIFE  
    that  you  have  no  time  ­for   HATE, REGRET,  WORRY
    or  FRET and FEAR.  

    ALL  YOUR  LIFE you  will  be  faced  with a  CHOICE-
     --  you  can  choose  LOVE  or  HATE.  I  choose LOVE,
     which  comes  as  quite  a surprise to those who  know  
     me  because  of  what   I  had   to  go  through  in  the
     Vietnam  war  and  after  returning   home   to  a  HATE  
     Vietnam  Veteran's  public.

    I choose not to be the person who needs someone, I choose
    to  be  the  person  someone  needs.  In  one  lifetime you  
    will  love  many times, but one love will  remain  in  your
    soul forever.   A  comfort  zone  is  a  beautiful  place, but
    nothing grows there.  I've  been  taught  to enjoy  my own
    company instead of expecting someone else to make you
    happy.

     EXPLAIN  your  ANGER, don't EXPRESS  it and you will
     immediately open  the  door  to  SOLUTIONS  instead of
     ARGUMENTS  and  surround  yourself  with people who
     will  make  you   HUNGRY  for  LIFE,  touch  your  heart,
    and NOURISH  your SOUL.                                            Jon York  2020

The Sun will rise every day
and the moon will follow its course.

Let your shadow move where it will,
its magnitude decided by the Sun.

May you never be the reason why
someone who loved to sing, doesn't anymore.
Or someone who dressed so uniquely, now
wears plain clothing. Or why someone
who always spoke so excitedly about their dreams,
is now silent about them.

May you never be the reason someone gave up
on a part of themselves because you were
demotivating, non-appreciative, hypercritical,
or even worse - sarcastic about it.

Do not relentlessly try to understand.
Time itself will decide.
I will not be sad. It has been written for me.
My joy will come when it is time.
                                                                                             Jon York  2021

Time flies whether you're
having fun or not and
when we are young we
admire clever people but
when we get old we admire
kind people and sadly we
find that there is always a
specific moment when we
realize that our youth is
gone.

The first forty years of life
give us the text and the next
thirty supply the commentary
and one of the many things
no one tells us about aging
is that it is such a nice
change from being young
because in youth we learn
and in age we understand
but the really sad part about
getting old is that we stay
young on the inside but no
one can tell.

Live a good and honorable
life and then when you get
older and think back you'll
get to enjoy it a second time
around and by the time you
hit sixty you'll have learned
your hardest lessons because
by then you have found out
that only a few things are
really important and you
have learned to take life
seriously but not yourself
and by then you know that
beautiful young people are
acts of nature and beautiful
old people are works of art.
                                                      on York   2016

Life is more than
a song: it is a concert
and life is to be lived
so be thankful for
bad times for they
herald the onset of
the good and know
that the most important
lessons in life are the
most painful.

Remember that the
greatest trees are
humble enough
to bend in the wind
so be strong and you
can bend: be rigid
and you will break
                             Jon York   2015

Having
        a deep
   conversation
          with
      someone
          who
          has  a
        brilliant
         mind
        and a
      beautiful
        soul is
         a new
        way of
      making
         love.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

May  our  love  be  like  the
four elements:  EARTH,  FIRE,
WATER, AIR
May our  love be  like EARTH
rich, natural,
and   deeply  rooted,
strong  as  rock   yet
soft  as  sand, always
growing  and  always  patient.

May   our  love   be  like FIRE
passionate, intense, and
energetic  with  a  flame
that  never  dies  and  as
radiant  as  the  morning
sun, as warm as an evening embrace.
                                                                      I want to feel the heat
May   our  love  be  like  WATER             of my own breath bounce
moving, constantly changing                   back and warm my lips
never still, never stagnant, as                   after I strategically place
vast as the ocean and as fresh                   them on my favorite places
                     as a spring's rain.                                             of your skin.
                                                                      I want to leave goosebumps
May  our   love  be    like    AIR                everywhere I have not yet
the sharing of dreams                                kissed and spend the night
,thoughts, and emotions,                           trying to read them like
always fragrant, always                                                                braille.
carefree, found in the breeze
of a whisper, of in the breath of a kiss.                          Jon York   2019

You're not
going to
master the
rest of your
life in one
day.
   Just relax.
  master the day,
   then just keep
   doing that
    every day.

The best part
    of your life?
every morning.

         You
         have
a new opportunity
            to become a
     happier version
              of yourself.
                                                       ­                               Jon York   2019

She walked through the door, her head looking down, perhaps scared to look at me for fear of what she may see. When in reality she was just scared of our first meeting in over 50 years, a length
of time that would bring anyone to tears.

I looked at her as she trembled and I said, "do you know why after all of this time I am still here?" "Because when love is true, it waits and as we slipped into an intimacy from which we never recovered, I said "guide me home, for you are the moon of my life, guide me home." "Let us make quiet love, soft sighed and slow stirred; glancing glazes and graceful gasps." "Swallow your loudest screams and yell instead with squeezing hands."

Some souls choose to wear their hearts on their sleeves, but I, brave or stupid or maybe both have chosen instead to wear mine on yours. Her love. . .simple, uninhibited, child like, spontaneous, filled with touching, poetry. She never grew up. .thank God!

Like a hummingbird in flight, always looking for a place to rest for the night, as she is weary from her travels afar and with natures careful planning she will touch the flowers of your soul, then wait for understanding'
                                                  ­                                     Jon York   2024

"I believe in you." Words that water flowers
                                                         ­                          Jon York   2019

That pause

between

each stroke

of your tongue    

when   you

kissed   me

drove    me

mad.   The

more I tasted

of   you,  the

more I wanted.

That  feeling in

that  moment,

that's poetry and

no  words  can

do you justice.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

The  words I  write in  my poems
are like an open book of my heart.

Long  ago  one  night  your voice
became my favorite sound. There
was  no  going  back  for  me.

Even  now,  so many  years  since,
I still seek tunes of you, vibrations
of  your  truth  as  before.

Yes  your  voice is still my favorite
music. My desired song.

Thank  you  for  not  sealing  shut
my open book.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2025

We will
       cross  paths  with
           many that
   don't understand us,
           that's  part  
              of  life.
        Don't worry
  about  what  others
    think about you.

          Focus  On
    yourself, on what
makes  you  happy,  on
         your soul.
You  are  your  biggest
       commitment,  
  so  start  loving  your  
flaws, your awkwardness,
       your weirdness,  
    your  intensity,  and
      your vulnerability.

          Life becomes
   more  fulfilling  when  
we are just simply our selves.
       The world keeps
spinning  whether  people
         understand us
or not. so make the next trip
        around  the  sun
            about you.
                                                            ­                           Jon York   2019

"Kama muta" is Sanskrit term that refers
to an emotion  that might also  be  called
"moved by love."

It  is an under-recognized emotion that  has
evolved to bind us to others and strengthen
our relationships. It motivates us to embrace
and care for other people.

Kama muta enhances  our  commitment  to
our relationships and encourages  us to  act
with greater compassion and kindness.

We usually experience  it in some of the most
important events in our lives - and it is commonly
exploited by writers to enhance  the  emotional
impact of their stories.

You are  another  me.  If  I do  harm to  you,
I  harm  myself.  If  I  love  and respect  you,
I  love  and  respect  myself.
                                                                                           Jon York   2024

MOANDAY - a good day to moan a lot and a lot more.
                                
                TONGUEDAY - the tongue goes to work all over our
                                                                ­                                        bodies.

                ­  WETDAY- do things to her all day that make her get wet.


                 THIRSTDAY - I get  very thirsty for those juices, lickum up


                  FREAKDAY - anything goes today, use your imagination.


                  SEXDAY - breakfast, lunch, dinner, spontaneous ***.


                   SUCKDAY -**** on each other all day, a **** feast.
                                                          ­                
                                                ­                                               Jon York   2019

Even if
your on the right track
you will get run over
if you just sit there
never looking back
and what you should
do today don't put off
to do someday
no matter what
others say
because if you
put it off  
life will make
you pay and pay
and try to
remember that
someday is not
a day of the week
no matter what
you seek.         Jon York                      2013

You can discover more about a

           person in an hour of play,
          than a year of conversation.

        Won't it  be nice when I take
                     you like you
           have  never  been  taken,
                    to leave you
                 unable  to  think,
                       only feel
         and be lost in the moment,
                   to loose yourself
                     and to reach
                 heights like never
                     before while
                  gripping me tight,
          my lips showing no mercy,
                         your body
         betraying you as you tremble
                     with each kiss

            Your hands
                            on my body.

            That's my
                                addiction.
                     ­                                                   Jon York   2019