Wishing you someone to love

My true love hath my heart

My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one for another given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

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Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
The Bargain

Let's Party

Background scene in Teen Wolf: Party Guessed Season 2, Episode 9

And this reminds me about Sterek. But that's a post coming toward the end of the week.

Source Holocine

2012 watershed kisses

With the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, these are important photos for LGBT visibility in the US military. I don't have anything similar for 2012 in Canada since our history is different. Gays have been able to serve openly since 1992 and the first gay service member to marry was in 2004. The first wedding between two gay military personnel took place at Nova Scotia's Canadian Forces Base Greenwood in 2005.

Dalan Wells (l.) welcomes home his partner Brandon Morgan

U.S. Marine Corps Captain Matthew Phelps (l.) proposes to his partner Ben Schock at the White House

USN 2nd Class Petty Officer Marissa Gaeta (l.) kissing her fiancée, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell

Jonathan Jewell (r.) is greeted with a homecoming kiss from his boyfriend Sean Sutton

Hold me, thrill me kiss me

For larger photos, click the first or any one

Then he kissed me

'Tis when the lark goes soaring
And the bee is at the bud,
When lightly dancing zephyrs
Sing over field and flood;
When all sweet things in nature
Seem joyfully achime -
'Tis then I wake my darling,
For it is kissing time!

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Eugene Field 1850 - 1895
From Kissing Time

We all love a man in uniform (or out of it)

I praise the dance, for it frees people
from the heaviness of matter and binds the isolated to community.
I praise the dance, which demands everything:
health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul.
Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people,
who are in constant danger of becoming all brain, will, or feeling.
Dancing demands a whole person,
one who is firmly anchored in the center of his life,
who is not obsessed by lust for people and things
and the demon of isolation in his own ego.
Dancing demands a freed person,
one who vibrates with the equipoise of all his powers.
I praise the dance.
O man, learn to dance,
or else the angels in heaven will not know what to do with you

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Saint Augustine (354 - 430)

Give me a kiss to build a dream on

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.

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Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
To Anthea (III)

Take me in your arms

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephermeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
From Lay your sleeping head, my love

Yes, it says "Ducky-Wucky"