A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life

by Nimoy, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780883965962
• ISBN10: 0883965968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts

Summary

With this tender and contemplative collection of poetry, multifaceted poet, actor, and director Leonard Nimoy takes us, an a soul-searching journey in which he explores his intermost thoughts, feelings, and fears, exposing love's fragility, warmth, and overwhelming presence in his life.

Author Biography

Both a successful actor and movie director, Leonard Nimoy is perhaps most recognized for his portrayal of Mr. Spock in the popular television and film science fiction series Star Trek. His directorial credits include: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; The Good Mother, the blockbuster hit Three Men and a Baby, and Holy Matrimony. The star of numerous stage productions, he has appeared in Camelot, Twelfth Night, Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof, and Vincent. On television, he spent two years on the Mission: Impossible series and appeared in a number of television movies, including A Woman Called Golda, in which he co-starred opposite Ingrid Bergman and for which he received an Emmy nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Special

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
A Lifetime of Love
I am an incurable romantic	8	(1)
I am still a child	9	(1)
On a soft Sunday afternoon	10	(1)
I have seen	11	(1)
Whatever we are	11	(1)
My love is a garden	12	(1)
Blessed is the morning sun	13	(1)
The miracle is this...	13	(1)
After endless days	14	(1)
You stepped deep into	15	(1)
Only You	16	(1)
You are the dream	17	(1)
Love does happen	17	(1)
Because I Care About You	18	(1)
When I see	18	(1)
I want to shout it in the streets	19	(1)
So many times	20	(1)
I don't touch you often enough	21	(1)
Let me not take for granted	21	(1)
A Time to Give
It is time	22	(1)
Whatever I have passed on	23	(1)
When you let me take	23	(1)
Day after day	24	(1)
Take these words	25	(1)
I know	25	(1)
I'm not always able to give	26	(1)
Help me...	27	(1)
I came to you	28	(1)
If the sun turns cold	29	(1)
We Are All Children Searching for Love
I am convinced	30	(1)
We are all children	31	(2)
Come let us dance together	33	(1)
You and I
In my heart	34	(14)
The Tree of Us	48	(2)
For Any Pain I Have Caused You...
For the times	50	(1)
We started with love	51	(1)
For All Mankind
I wish for all mankind	52	(1)
When love happens	53	(1)
If all the deeds of man	54	(1)
May you be guided by	55	(1)
When We Are Apart
There is no peace	56	(1)
I love you	57	(1)
In the desert	57	(1)
If I were to take the time	58	(1)
I want to see you again	58	(1)
Sweet is	59	(1)
Will I Think of You?
Will I think of you?	60	(2)
Only at sunrise
Will I think of you?	62	(6)
Only when it snows
Will I think of you?	68	(4)
Only when I feel
Will I think of you?	72	(4)
No...
Will I think of you?	76	(6)
Only when I'm alone
In the Garden of My Life
I have a garden that I love	82	(1)
I have lived with me	83	(1)
Because	83	(1)
I have learned again	84	(1)
When I truly give	85	(1)
A Precious Lesson	86	(1)
I am not immortal	87	(1)
I Guess I'm Just an Old-Fashioned Spaceman
Rocket ships	88	(1)
I may not be the fastest	89	(1)
What mark will I leave behind?	90	(1)
Let's do it	91	(1)
If there is	92	(1)
We are the poem	93	(1)
We are star-met	93	(1)
And Then We Were Wed	94	(1)
Thank you	95	(1)
About the Author	96