It’s preposterous, I know, and yet profound... Once you find true love, it doesn't matter how long it took to get there because it's happening right now

Let's Wreck (by Just L) 2015 Aug 31

Restraint is an illusion anyway

Everything I've Got (by Just L) 2015 Aug 27

But I Do (by Just L) 2015 Aug 18

Only to reach his lips (by Just L) 2015 Aug 18

Trailing Thoughts (by Just L) 2015 Aug 09

Uprooted (by Just L) 2015 Jul 30

Cautiously Giddy (by Just L) 2015 Jul 30

Presence of Mind (by Just L) 2015 Jul 26

Swirling questions about 'it': the right amount of time, the perfect timing, the thousand excuses why not or why not me...

Shadows of Another Day (by Just L) 2015 Jul 26

Quote (by C. JoyBell C.) 2015 Jul 21

Exposed (by Just L) 2015 Jul 14

Easing In (by Just L) 2015 Jul 13

On My Tiptoes (by Just L) 2015 Jul 13

Thoughts as I stand on my tiptoes kissing him

Shopping for a new door wreath (by Just L) 2015 Jul 13

It is never one thing

Wanderlust (by Just L) 2015 May 28

Ugly Shirt (by Just L) 2015 May 27

Asea in the Alphabet (by Just L) 2015 May 17

Vows Said No One Ever (by Just L) 2015 May 06

In response to BK's Vow Challenge

I've lived in this house 13 years without a backyard (by Just L) 2015 May 06

NaPoWriMo Day 27: A hay(na)ku)

A Vow of Sorts: An excerpt from a love letter (by Just L) 2015 May 06

In response to BK's Vow Challenge: This is an excerpt from a letter written to my love. Could be a beginning...

Flash Forward (by Just L) 2015 May 05

Decorative Hedge (by Just L) 2015 May 03

Nap Detective (by Just L) 2015 May 03

All The Small Ings (by Just L) 2015 Apr 30

20 Things

Once Upon A Time I Vowed (by Just L) 2015 Apr 26

In response to BK's Vow Challenge

Quote (by From "The Vow" (2012)) 2015 Apr 23

The "home" part .... *sigh*

Manifestation (by Just L) 2015 Apr 20

You know what's sexy? (by Just L) 2015 Apr 20

A little advice to the broken men looking for a mother, nursemaid, or someone to blame.

What You Don't Hear (by Just L) 2015 Apr 20

Temperament (by Just L) 2015 Apr 20

Outlaws of attraction...

The Road to Happiness (by Just L) 2015 Apr 20

Hopeful Romantic (by Just L) 2015 Apr 15

NaPoWriMo Day 15: A poem that addresses itself

Our Love Story: What it is not (by Just L) 2015 Apr 02

NaPoWriMo Day 1: A poem of negation

140 (by Just L) 2015 Apr 01

Luminous Reflection (by Just L) 2015 Mar 31

Quote (by Carrie Bradshaw, Sex in the City) 2015 Mar 28

Palm Reader (by Just L) 2015 Mar 22

Quiet Storm (by Just L) 2015 Mar 22

Heart-ful (by Just L) 2015 Mar 17

Mixers 1 (by Just L) 2015 Mar 16

Cocktail Party Conversations

Entirely (by Just L) 2015 Mar 16

Wholly ready

#LoveHack (by Just L) 2015 Mar 11

Quote (by F. Scott Fitzgerald) 2015 Mar 08

From This Side of Paradise

Knocking on the Dawn Anew (by Just L) 2015 Feb 27

On the Mouth (by Just L) 2015 Feb 03

Only Days (by Just L) 2015 Jan 31

Dirty Girl (by Just L) 2015 Jan 31

Spilling Over (by Just L) 2015 Jan 31

Maw Drop (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Sweeter than lemon drops, and I really like lemon drops!

Simply Right (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Totaled (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Head in the Clouds (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Is this a test? (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Between Us (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Not So Single Serving (by Just L) 2015 Jan 30

Day 77 (by Just L) 2015 Jan 28

I am not too lazy to come up with an appropriate title, it is what it is

Deep In (by Just L) 2015 Jan 25

Extending far down from the surface

Found and Lost (by Just L) 2015 Jan 19

In Passing (by Just L) 2015 Jan 16

Deeper Waters (by Just L) 2015 Jan 16

More metaphysical than a Ghyben-Herzberg relation

Location Location Location (by Just L) 2015 Jan 16

Baby Girl (by Just L) 2015 Jan 16

A confession

La La Land (by Just L) 2015 Jan 15

Swimmingly (by Just L) 2015 Jan 10

Mighty Sound (by Just L) 2015 Jan 09

A Short Story (by Just L) 2015 Jan 08

Love Rules (by Just L) 2015 Jan 04

Love Awaits (by Just L) 2015 Jan 04

Quote (by Francisco X. Stork) 2015 Jan 04

from The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

The Equation of Falling (by Just L) 2014 Dec 24

Soul Stance (by Just L) 2014 Dec 23

Love Sent (by Just L) 2014 Dec 23

Scent-sational

She Knows (by Just L) 2014 Dec 19

Sweet moments interrupted by separations for goodness' sake

E'er Tempted (by Just L) 2014 Dec 13

The artistry of the kiss

Give Away (by Just L) 2014 Dec 13

Reti-scent Acceleration (by Just L) 2014 Dec 09

Skips A Beat (by Just L) 2014 Dec 09

My heart does, he doesn't

Just Right (by Just L) 2014 Dec 02

Full (by Just L) 2014 Dec 01

Rocking the L out of it!

28 Days Later - 2 (by Just L) 2014 Dec 01

28 Days Later - 1 (by Just L) 2014 Dec 01

Nighttime Reading (by Just L) 2014 Nov 28

Sometimes reading below grade level gets one a better score

To Kill Ya (by Just L) 2014 Nov 26

Georgia still on my mind (by Just L) 2014 Nov 26

Reflections of a first date

dArlin' (by Just L) 2014 Nov 25

A Wife�s Tale (by Just L) 2014 Nov 16

You Chose Wrong (by Just L) 2014 Nov 15

Worthless Stock (by Just L) 2014 Nov 10

Sacrifice, surrender, offering: Lighting my way

Lost and Found (by Just L) 2014 Nov 10

Faux Ever (by Just L) 2014 Nov 10

Shiny things with no grit

Notes on love (by Just L) 2014 Oct 16

Partly cloudy, clearing overnight (by Just L) 2014 Oct 16

Rainy Day Play Date (by Just L) 2014 Oct 15

Can't rain on my parade

lEMons (by Just L) 2014 Oct 14

Sweet Vibes (by Road trip to 2014 Street Vibes) 2014 Sep 26

Deliberately Done (by Just L) 2014 Sep 22

But not done loving

Fire Starter (by Just L) 2014 Sep 18

How To Manual (by Just L) 2014 Sep 18

Dot.com (by Just L) 2014 Sep 09

I Hope You Cry (by Just L) 2014 Sep 09

Reasonably Insane (by Just L) 2014 Sep 09

Perfectly Fitting (by Just L) 2014 Sep 09

A Lie Told (by Just L) 2014 Sep 09

The words that hold us

What Remains (by Just L) 2014 Sep 09

Something recycled

Unfaithfully Yours (by Just L) 2014 Sep 07

Single Serving (by Just L) 2014 Aug 28

No Take Backs (by Just L) 2014 Aug 28

Ingressive Exhilaration

Brighter Shores (by Just L) 2014 Aug 19

100 Days (by Just L) 2014 Aug 19

Take Two (by Just L) 2014 Aug 03

Rising (by Just L) 2014 Aug 03

Will (by Just L) 2014 Aug 01

The week is behind me and I am already weak in the knees in anticipation.

Fabricated (by Just L) 2014 Aug 01

Siri-ously?!! (by Just L) 2014 Aug 01

Smart ass phone...

At the altar of life (by Just L) 2014 Jul 30

Broken Bindings (by Just L) 2014 Jul 28

Babbling Conversations over Bubbly

Encore (by Just L) 2014 Jul 26

The repeat performance nobody is applauding

Union (by Robert Fulghum) 2014 Jul 23

Read at a recent wedding, Too beautiful not to share with the romantics here.

Missing Me (by Just L) 2014 Jul 20

"Pushed" again

Keepsake (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Things I now understand (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Things I will understandably miss (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Things I don't understand (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Summer Treats (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

"Only more fun with fewer calories!," I scream.

The Joy of Ex (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Ghosts (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Sizable Questions (by Just L) 2014 Jul 18

Delusional (by Just L) 2014 Jul 17

Heart Disease (by Just L) 2014 Jul 16

Pushed (by Just L) 2014 Jul 15

Kissing Art Thou (by Just L) 2014 Jul 13

A conversation on kissing, well mostly

Face Off (by Just L) 2014 Jul 12

Soothed (by Just L) 2014 Jul 12

That Wall (by Just L) 2014 Jul 10

16 Sides & The Truth (by Just L) 2014 Jul 01

Spicy Varietal (by Just L) 2014 Jun 30

Greenhouse Effect (by Just L) 2014 Jun 30

One sunny afternoon

The Shifting Shape of Clouds (by Just L) 2014 Jun 30

Mostly Bluffing (by Just L) 2014 Jun 30

My Only Crime (by Just L) 2014 Jun 30

A bump to my only sin....

Elegy for Em (by Just L) 2014 Jun 29

Darn Allergies (by Just L) 2014 Jun 28

Smitten Kitten Lost Her Mittens (by Just L) 2014 Jun 28

Taken (by Just L) 2014 Jun 28

Moving List (by Just L) 2014 Jun 28

Wish, To Do, or Shopping, sometimes hard to tell...

Meeting Adjourned (by Just L) 2014 Jun 25

Alarming (by Just L) 2014 Jun 25

Just bells going off in my head....

Haik Ya (by Just L) 2014 Jun 21

Freedom: Soaking it up

Hai Kiss (by Just L) 2014 Jun 21

Summer: Drinking it up

Slow-emotion (by Just L) 2014 Jun 21

Scented (by Just L) 2014 Jun 20

Being Led (by Just L) 2014 Jun 10

I am forever a sucker for "holding hands" in all of its forms.

Urban Sieze (by Just L) 2014 Jun 10

22 Reasons (by Just L) 2014 Jun 05

A Waxing Crescent Kiss (by Just L) 2014 Jun 05

The moon's gravitational forces are strong enough to disrupt balance

Stirring (by Just L) 2014 Jun 01

The sweet intimacy of spooning

Heartbreak Log: May 30, 2014, 4:15pm (by Just L) 2014 May 30

25 days without him

To Do Over (by Just L) 2014 May 30

Doomed to Regret (by Just L) 2014 May 30

Victim-ese (by Just L) 2014 May 29

A Pattern (by Just L) 2014 May 29

Ass-ets (by Just L) 2014 May 27

LEAVING all the while (by Just L) 2014 May 26

The ONE (by Just L) 2014 May 22

Rules of Evidence (by Just L) 2014 May 22

Last Choice (by Just L) 2014 May 18

So many beautiful things (by Just L) 2014 May 18

Reflection and Reflecting (by Just L) 2014 May 17

You had me for a song (by Just L) 2014 May 17

Trust does not come in a can (by Just L) 2014 May 17

Recognized (by Just L) 2014 May 17

Rent to Dis-own (by Just L) 2014 May 16

Don't call me (by Just L) 2014 May 16

Housekeeping (by Just L) 2014 May 16

Dissolution-ed (by Just L) 2014 May 15

Hard Candy (by Just L) 2014 May 12

Mark My Words (by Just L) 2014 May 08

Over Rot (by Just L) 2014 May 08

Candy Land (by Just L) 2014 Feb 08

Rhymes with -ʌndʒ (by Just L) 2014 Feb 08

Because to celebrate the ordinary, with you, is divine (by Just L) 2014 Jan 29

Child's Play for Old Lovers

Where�s Your Bic? (by Just L) 2014 Jan 25

Got to make your own heat when it's cold outside

Crazy Love (by Just L) 2013 Dec 30

Soundtrack of our life (by Just L) 2013 Dec 30

Unfinished

You Are Behind Us (by Just L) 2013 Dec 30

It's been quite ride!

We thought this day would never come (by Just L) 2013 Dec 30

What I learned from you (by Just L) 2013 Dec 21

Just-in (by Just L) 2013 Dec 18

And then there is breath (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Missing sharing Harley rides with the hubby. Winter... Grrr.

I hope Texas is large enough (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Bully (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

La Back I See (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

La Drama Returned (interception or fumble?)

Savoring the Sweet (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Springing Ahead 2013 (Getting this marriage thing down, literally)

New Season; No Foolin' (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

A Reflection on "Winter is Over"

Treatments (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Open Until Filled (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Held it Up to the Divine (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Off beat� (by Just L) 2013 Dec 03

Slip of the Tongue (by Just L) 2013 Nov 28

Spark (by Just L) 2013 Nov 28

No Trace (by Just L) 2013 Nov 28

Elaborate (by Just L) 2013 May 20

Slipped My Mind (by Just L) 2013 Mar 18

Winter is Over (by EMA) 2013 Jan 11

A lovely note from my husband to me

Paris in December (by Just L) 2012 Dec 09

Busted (by Just L) 2012 Dec 09

Fighting Words (by Just L) 2012 Dec 09

Emptied (by Just L) 2012 Nov 27

Some days you just hit a wall... and empty is misinterpreted as unloving

Stocking Up on Love (by Just L) 2012 Nov 09

Conspiring to love while two others simply conspire

11.11.11: ONE YEAR LATER (by Just L) 2012 Nov 08

In the irreverent, reverence of Lynyrd and the Lord

Thankfulness Day 7 (by Just L) 2012 Nov 08

Ocean of LovIn' (by Just L) 2012 Aug 20

Better than a sea...

Directions (by Just L) 2012 Aug 18

When your enormous vocab fails you (by Just L) 2012 Aug 18

or know when to quit

Dinner Conversation (by Just L) 2012 Aug 18

Splitting Hairs (by Just L) 2012 Aug 18

Fragments Found (by Just L) 2012 Aug 17

Sometimes I get asked, �Why did you stop writing poetry for a time?� A: I was simply too busy trying to stay alive.

Hard Labor (by Just L) 2012 Aug 14

Nine months and a day...

Nine Month Anniversary Gift (by Just L) 2012 Aug 12

If year one is "paper"....

Kiss Sandwich (by Just L) 2012 May 08

(funny kissing challenge)

Feast On This (by Just L) 2012 May 07

A Kiss

Revolving Status (by Just L) 2012 May 06

Divorced: Another anniversary, further away with a better view

Good Seed - Replanted (by Just L) 2012 May 06

&(%^%$#@!!! (by Just L) 2012 May 06

Wrong Number

One Woman Elated (by Just L) 2012 May 06

Confection (by Just L) 2012 May 06

Good Seed (by Just L) 2012 May 06

Beautiful things spring from the worst soil...

Sprinkles (by Just L) 2012 May 04

Unverified (by Just L) 2012 May 04

"Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense." ~Samuel Johnson

Six Month Wedding Anniversary (by Just L) 2012 May 04

DEKLATS: Reverse in Review in Year A (by Just L) 2012 Feb 29

A cautionary tale of two vengeful women

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner (by Just L) 2012 Feb 29

Encircled (by Just L) 2012 Feb 29

Receiving Gifts (by Just L) 2012 Feb 29

Wild Ride (by Just L) 2012 Feb 27

Warm Sugar Kisses (by Just L) 2012 Feb 27

Unspoken (by Just L) 2012 Feb 27

Winter Playground (by Just L) 2012 Feb 13

When kissing is a crime (by Just L) 2012 Feb 13

Best V-Day Gift Ever (by Just L) 2012 Feb 13

Valentine�s Day Gift (by Just L) 2012 Feb 13

...better than all of the gifts before, even diamonds

My Valentine (by Just L) 2012 Feb 13

Lovely One (by Pablo Neruda) 2012 Feb 13

An Excerpt for V-Day 2012

Heavy Metal (by Just L) 2012 Feb 06

So Blue (by Just L) 2012 Jan 25

Night & Day (by Just L) 2012 Jan 25

Now, Only Now (by Just L) 2012 Jan 25

Sandwiches, bleh (by Just L) 2012 Jan 25

Worth (it) (by Just L) 2012 Jan 25

Where your value lies

Ugly is as ugly does (by Just L) 2012 Jan 22

Leftovers (by Just L) 2012 Jan 22

Resolute About Loving (by Just L) 2012 Jan 02

New Year's 2012: A Reflection

More Than You Say (by Just L) 2011 Dec 31

The ashes have proven to be a stomping ground (by Just L) 2011 Dec 31

A placeholder for magic (by Just L) 2011 Dec 31

Meeting Your Match (by Just L) 2011 Dec 31

Bury Your Dead (Love) Quotes (by Just L) 2011 Dec 31

Let 2011 go

Girl Code (by Just L) 2011 Dec 31

Some things you can't tell

Morning Love (by Just L) 2011 Dec 27

No after-Christmas rush

Sparkly Suspenders on Ruffled Panties (by Just L) 2011 Dec 26

First Christmas as Dr. and Mrs. (by Just L) 2011 Dec 26

Twas the Night of Christmas (An Encore) (by Just L) 2011 Dec 24

Christmas fun because who doesn't LOVE being silly?

Nothing to Celebrate (by Just L) 2011 Dec 18

Married Life: 5 Weeks, One Day (by Just L) 2011 Dec 17

What I Know (by Just L) 2011 Dec 17

Here Kitty Kitty (by Just L) 2011 Nov 29

Hisssss. Now scat cat.

This is not that (by Just L) 2011 Sep 22

That.. another lifetime ago

Sated (by Just L) 2011 Sep 03

Conversations with my love (3)

Swimming in the depths of fearlessly honest (by Just L) 2011 Sep 03

Conversations with my love (2)

Caught in the Flash (by Just L) 2011 Sep 03

Conversations with my love (1)

My Prize and Joy (by Just L) 2011 Aug 30

A bump to "you win"...well, maybe a nudge...

Our life does NOT suck! (by Just L) 2011 Aug 30

Sometimes one needs a reminder of all that remains

Just Because (by Just L) 2011 Jul 19

I do

Landed (by Just L) 2011 Jun 27

Some things � like integrity, compassion, honor, and one�s sanity � are not worth losing. (by Just L) 2011 Jun 22

It's only money, honey.

A Specific Taste (by Just L) 2011 Apr 06

My Only Sin - Revisited (by Just L) 2011 Apr 04

Hard Feelings (by Just L) 2011 Apr 04

Unaffected (by Just L) 2011 Apr 04

La Drama (by Just L) 2011 Apr 01

Facebook stalker anyone?

Entwined (by Just L) 2011 Mar 27

My Only Sin - Original (by Just L) 2011 Mar 27

Five Times Ten = Forever (by Just L) 2011 Mar 25

PLEASE STAY SEATED UNTIL THE RIDE HAS COME TO A STOP (by Just L) 2011 Mar 24

A piece of "recovery" from heartbreak and aches that will be publshed in the 2011 College Moment , a faculty-led journal.

Fully (by Just L) 2011 Mar 20

Love Resuscitation (by Just L) 2011 Mar 19

LoveAdoreCherish (by Just L) 2011 Feb 17

All In (by Just L) 2011 Feb 15

Didn't know we were playing

Stunning (by Just L) 2011 Jan 23

Demanding an audience with the Queen is easier than this (by Just L) 2010 Dec 28

Protected (by Just L) 2010 Dec 26

This is not a poem (by Just L) 2010 Dec 14

This is a thank you note

Lucky 13 (by Just L) 2010 Dec 14

Still deliciously silly after 13 months

I broke my heart (by Just L) 2010 Nov 28

Wasted (by Just L) 2010 Nov 27

Valued (by Just L) 2010 Nov 27

A skipped anniversary, holiday ....they add up to this

Hanging by a Thread (by Just L) 2010 Nov 14

Love, texting and subtext

Marked (by Just L) 2010 Nov 14

My Man, Mmhmm

The only relationship advice you will ever need (by Just L) 2010 Nov 08

Soon Enough (by Just L) 2010 Nov 08

Weighing In (by Just L) 2010 Nov 08

Beginner�s Mind (by Just L) 2010 Nov 06

Practice holding lightly

There is No Rhyme to "Month" -- An Anniversary Poem (by Just L) 2010 Oct 31

A History Text (by Just L) 2010 Oct 16

A Year in Review

Keeping Score (by Just L) 2010 Oct 06

Lip-smacking Satisfaction (by Just L) 2010 Oct 06

She Spake (by Just L) 2010 Sep 21

This and Thus

Relish (by Just L) 2010 Sep 17

Completely Undone (by Just L) 2010 Sep 14

A beautiful mess, you and me

A Proposal (by Just L) 2010 Sep 08

Tree Ring Detectives (by Just L) 2010 Sep 07

Happy to Have You to Miss (by Just L) 2010 Sep 07

He Says - Revisited (by Just L) 2010 Sep 06

"He Says" - An earlier piece revisited

Somewhere Between Tomorrow and Jello (by Just L) 2010 Sep 06

Roll you in sugar (by Just L) 2010 Sep 06

FALL-i-n-g (by Just L) 2010 Sep 06

Perhaps summer is not the hot season at all!

Drowning in the Big Blue (by Just L) 2010 Aug 23

Deep, too deep

A Kissing Quote (by Emil Ludwig) 2010 Aug 23

I have always loved this one. Appropriate for our kissy face contest.

Kissing "M" (by Just L) 2010 Aug 19

Prayers Answered

No Superpowers (by Just L) 2010 Aug 19

A recovering control freak living in the angst of lack of control of your angst

Pro-missed (by Just L) 2010 Aug 18

A bump to JWB's wedding promise -- on the other end

Lip Plumpers (by Just L) 2010 Aug 17

Kissing Challlenge

Abnormal Vision (by Just L) 2010 Aug 17

No Magic Formula (by Just L) 2010 Aug 07

Quote (by Just L) 2010 Jul 17

Yay Us! (by Just L) 2010 Jul 17

Because our love is so silly, and good

The Rest is Just the Rest (by Just L) 2010 Jul 10

As long as there is you, I will always be thrilled...

Reaching 2010 Jul 02

Aromemories Linger

Full Bloom (by Just L) 2010 Jun 24

I can't tell yet!

Calculating Love 2010 Jun 16

Inconsolable (by Just L) 2010 Jun 15

An excerpt from a letter

Heart Transplant (by Just L) 2010 Jun 14

Written after realizing that I had in fact recovered from a broken heart and found renewed hope

Warrior with <3 (by Just L) 2010 Jun 14

Steel and Tears

Relationship Stew (by Just L) 2010 Jun 02

Sealed (with a kiss) (by Just L) 2010 May 31

Alarmed? (by Just L) 2010 May 23

Front Page Pick August 1999 - for the file

Controlling Hurt (by Just L) 2010 May 23

Is it over? (by Just L) 2010 May 20

Front Page Pick September 1998 - for the file

Sleeping in J's L (by Just L) 2010 May 20

Front Page Pick April 1999 - for the file

Favorite Flavor (by Just L) 2010 May 18

Love's Tides (by Just L) 2010 May 17

Inspired by "Gift From The Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happiness (by Just L) 2010 Apr 11

Home (by Just L) 2010 Apr 11

Stick Like Spaghetti 2010 Apr 11

This and That 2010 Apr 11

A budding virtual romance

Care Package (by Just L) 2010 Apr 09

Lessons to apply with a new love

Less (by Just L) 2010 Apr 05

Sometimes I don't want to be a mother I want to be a lover, and manhandled.

No Appeal 2010 Feb 03

I have my reasons...

Valentines Schmalentines 2010 Jan 28

Wrote this Valentine's last when I was feeling less loved but ever hopeful

Divorce Declaration (by Just L) 2010 Jan 18

After nearly two years of separation, I finally filed!

Spellbound 2010 Jan 18

Today I realized I am in love. Powerful.

Mining for Answers (by JustL with Urenda) 2002 Jul 23

Mining Urenda's words to match my insides

= Front Page Pick for the following month's edition