Jeffrey Mcdaniel Love Quotes & Sayings

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential — Jeffrey McDaniel

I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. — Jeffrey McDaniel

The Quiet World
In an effort to get people to look
into each other's eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.
When she doesn't respond,
I know she's used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe. — Jeffrey McDaniel

There's two kinds of women
those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel