Kiss and Tales 2: A Romantic Collection

by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

  Love

  by Madhu Kalyan Mattaparthi

  Love is you.

  Love is me.

  Love is something you can't see.

  Love is nice.

  Love is sweet.

  Love will sweep you off your feet.

  Love is soft.

  Love is best.

  You can feel love in your chest.

  Love is great.

  Love is kind.

  Love is always on my mind.

  Love is special.

  Love you cherish.

  My love for you will never perish.

  You Will Always Be My Man

  by Ailene Openiano Giray

  Sitting by my window counting the days

  While longing nagging at me

  I'll keep waiting for you as long as I can

  I may not see your face and smell the scent of your

  skin

  Everything and nothing will ever change.

  And I will remember your voice and your laughter

  Long before it ever happens

  You will always be my man

  You're the sunshine of my world

  And no matter how tomorrow unfolds

  You will always be my man.

  I can sense you from here,

  In all places I shed tears,

  My love stays, yes it stays.

  Days turn into months and months into years

  Until I can no longer remember when

  You will always be the one

  I kept on coming back to

  And no matter how tomorrow unfolds

  To the moment in front you stood,

  You will always be my man,

  Always...my man.

  My Friend

  by Ailene Openiano Giray

  We meet online through the internet

  It was so weird but we just clicked

  We started with "hi" and "hello"

  Warm smiles and bright eyes.

  We talked a lot, chatting on WhatsApp

  Even Skype helps lessen the gap

  Through Gmail we shared our interests

  On Gtalk we put up the rest.

  Time flew, days comes too soon

  Now here we are still going on

  Our friendship grows beyond time

  Beyond distance, and beyond realms.

  A year is near for us to celebrate

  The wondrous joys of our friendship

  May this be the start of another?

  Year after year of our future together.

  We may be miles, and miles apart,

  This bond of friendship never departs

  Forever it stays in my heart always

  Warms me all over with a sweet taste.

  “You And I”

  by Ailene Openiano Giray

  You had me when things were rough,

  You believed and you never give up,

  You pushed me still to reach the top,

  You loved me and you just won't stop.

  I pushed you so many times away,

  I closed the door and there I stay,

  I left the world and left you at bay,

  I lost everything even my own day.

  You promised everything will be all right,

  You encouraged me to step in the light,

  You held my hand as I take a stride,

  You see to it that I will fight.

  I was overwhelmed with emotion I feel,

  I was suddenly overjoyed for real,

  I couldn't believe you and your tale,

  I was lucky my gloom you steal.

  We have come to an agreement,

  We decided to have an engagement,

  We took the oath of forever excitement,

  We, You and I in our own endearment.

  This Love

  by Ailene Openiano Giray

  Why do I love you?

  Kept on asking myself this,

  From the moment I set my eyes,

  I can’t help but meet your gaze.

  You looked at me like you knew,

  All the hidden secrets buried deep,

  In this heart of mine I had kept,

  For ages and ages of sleep.

  With you around I couldn’t lie,

  All my feelings poured out of my mouth,

  Oh how could I, how could I hide,

  These feelings already growing inside,

  What to do, a damsel I am I know,

  Held captive not of war, money or feud.

  But of your love so elusive,

  I’m afraid I can’t hold.

  But dear love I will forever wait,

  No matter how many moons or sunsets,

  For what I have in my heart for you,

  Extends beyond life and after death.

  I Am In Love

  by Ailene Openiano Giray

  Just when I thought I'm ready,

  To face my remaining life solely,

  You came and throw all away,

  All my plans and make your way.

  After the if's, but's, and maybe's,

  I surrendered to you whole heartedly,

  For I know there is no use,

  Even if I continually refuse.

  For once in my life I believe,

  I'll be happy in your arms, I crave,

  To feel the warmth of love that saved,

  This heart that is long dead.

  Feeling you close to me each day,

  Makes a rainbow in my sky so gray,

  You taught me things that seems ordinary,

  And turned them all magically...

  Even though ours is unthinkable,

  You made it seem like it is possible,

  To unite two poles of different people,

  And made our ties unbreakable.

  Realizing now we are in our journey’s end,

  What better way to celebrate than to make

  amends,

  Cheers to the happiness you have sent,

  To thy heart that would burst if contained.

  ABOUT THE INDIE COLLABORATION

  The Indie Collaboration grew out of a group of like minded independent authors. Together, we decided to show the world how great works of fiction can be created without the involvement of any large publishing companies; creating a direct channel between ourselves and our readers is of the utmost importance to us. Each author has freely donated their time and work and are committed to the Indie Collaboration's cause of:

  Offering the best of indie authors

  in bite size pieces for free wherever possible.

  We hope you enjoy our books.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORs

  Kristina Jacobs

  Kristina Jacobs is a dabbler. She writes a dab of this and a bit of that. She enjoys writing children's fantasy, short stories and poetry. Her dark fantasy short story collection, Tales of the Wyrd, is her favorite collection. She's also the author of three poetry chapbooks: The Wildwood Guardian, Grey Weir and Slipshod Mornings & Meandering Midnights and is currently finishing her first full length novel.

  Chris Raven

  Chris Raven was born in south London just shy of 50 years ago. He originally started out in Theatre in the 1980s but he became side-tracked by health and social care. Recently he has found his way back to the creative arts by contributing a number of short stories to the Indie collaboration’s series of free anthologies. He has also been coordinating a shared writing project with other new writers called ‘Tall Stories’.

  James Gordon, G. P. A. (Greatest Poet Alive)

  G.P.A. is a multi-award winning Poet and author. He has written four books of Poetry(The Confessional Heart of a Man, The Book of 24 Orgasms, The Mind of a Poetic Unsub, and the Poetry Book of the Year, Revenge of the Orgasm). G.P.A. has won the Poetry Pentathlon, Moth Storytelling Slam, and the Urban Image Magazine Talent Search.

  Margene Wiese-Baier

  Margene Wiese-Baier is author of Angels in Flight, a daily devotional and is a pa
stor with a large Facebook-based online Christian ministry. She writes Christian messages of hope, as well as contemporary children’s fiction and poetry. She also enjoys painting and drawing.

  Margaret Wiese

  Margaret Wiese was born in 1925 in Sandstone, Minnesota. She died in 1985. She was a wife and mother to 4 children and lived for many years in Philomath, Oregon where her husband had a saw mill.

  She was a writer and wrote several books, poetry, short stories, articles and songs. She loved art and being creative. Her children have offered some of her romantic poetry for inclusion in this anthology, it is as timeless today as it was then.

  Alan Hardy

  Alan Hardy: I'm a Brit. Director of an English language school for foreign students. Married, with one daughter. Poet and novelist. Poetry pamphlets: Wasted Leaves, 1996; I Went With Her, 2007. Comic, bawdy novel GABRIELLA, and satirical, scabrous novel GOOD QUEEN BETH, both available on Amazon as Kindle e-book. Other novels, similarly disrespectful, surreal and shocking, on their way. Get ready for them.

  Kottyn Campbell

  The Softest Voice in Poetry! Kottyn (cot-ton)

  Kottyn “SoftSpokenPoet has written books such as “He’s Beautiful to me”, “Strong in my woman” “The Love Letter”, “Sweet Mangos”  and her newly released book Titled “10 Reasons Why Black Men Stop Dating Black Women”. Kottyn has participated in her first anthology “Nights Playground” Nocturnal Naughtiness which she came up with the title designed the cover and contributed her writing. Night’s Playground” is a GPA MEDIA INC Presentation. The title of her next book is “BELIEVE” #IAMPOETRY to release in 2015.

  Madhu Kaylan Mattaparthi

  Madhu Kalyan Mattaparthi is an IT professional from Hyderabad, India, born on 16th January 1989. He is a philanthropist, traveller and pursues writing as a hobby. Sensitive and observant, everything that happens around him is an inspiration to do something new. His knowledge in the world of technology has earned him appreciation and success and he now considers writing his new passion. He has worked in Google, India as a CEA and also the owner of a start-up company, Green Turtle Software Solutions.

  Ailene Openiano Giray

  I am Ailene Openiano Giray. I was born on April 21, 1987, 3rd child of the couple Bonifacio and Gilda Giray. I'm an Educator by Profession. I am fond of photography, sketching and writing short poems which is brought about by my dream of exploring different places, which remains unfulfilled to date…but one day I will explore!