Acknowledgements
Foreword by Flo Magdalena
Author’s Preface

Chapter One. For “Unloved” and “Unloving” Lovers and Friends: 1977-2005
Chapter Two. Tests & Testimonies of Love: 1949-2005
Chapter Three. At Last, Heal the Past: 1949-2005
Chapter Four. Love & Discernment: 1986-2005
Chapter Five. When It’s Time to Go: 1977-2005
Chapter Six. Calling Love Warriors: 1997-2005
Chapter Seven. Epilogue: 1997-2005

Chapter One. ‘Unloved’ and ‘Unloving’ Lovers & Friends: 1977-2005
You’re Just a Woman Creating Her Own Great Drama
Pure Love
The Power of Weakness
Next Time You Want a Woman Just for a Friend
Learn to Love the Shadow
There’s No Such Thing as Casual Sex
I Made the Choice
The System May Not Love You Back
Is She Your Friend?
They Find the Sweetest One
Players and the Played
Don’t Lie to Me
Prisoner of Programs
The ‘Two’ of Rejection
There is Love for the Unloved Lover

Chapter Two. Tests & Testimonies of Love: 1949-2005
Mother Root, Father Sky
Did I Ever Say?
I Prayed for You to Come
Measuring the Love
Everlasting, Ever Present Love
The Awakening
I Love You, I Worship God
When My People Love You
Who but You?
Looking for that Mother-Father-Kind-o-Love
I Love this Land and this Land Loves Me
I Touched Love
I Dreamed You Up
What Made Me Love You?
Come to Me at the First Snow
Feathers Fly Away

Chapter Three. At Last, Heal the Past: 1949-2005
Four Love Quests
No One Remembers, No One Tells
The Wound that Wants to be Healed
Child of Love’s Hope
I Want to be a Better “Man” than My Daddy Was
You’ de’ Medicine Man
The Heart of a Babe Hidden
Love the Heart of a Tyrant
Love Thine Inner Me
Paint me the Color of Love
Faith in Love
A Love Equation
I am the Prize
Be Love, Beloved

Chapter Four. Love and Discernment: 1986-2005
Desire’s Illusion, Love’s Reality
A Long Walk in the Desert for Me
Can You See Me?
What’s More Important—Control or Love?
I Knew the Ice Would Come to Me
Mr. Man
A Gift is a Gift
What We’re Offering, What We Want
I’ve Been to the Movie, I’ve Seen the Picture Show
Circle the Triangle
That’s Not Spirit Telling You to Forget about Love
If All Remains the Same
Love’s Trust

Chapter Five. When it’s Time to Go: 1977-2005
Maybe it’s Time to Let Go
We Were
Psychic Wail
If it Hasn’t Happened
Takin’Myself Out’ the Game
How We Open and Close
Can I Die Now?
I Wish You Well
Eight Poems for Endings

Chapter Six. Calling Love Warriors: 1997-2005
Fight, Flight and Light
Rest the Weary Warrior and Warrioress
Twins over Time
Dance of Commitment and Change
Love is a Sacred Space
Sacred Woman, Sacred Man, Sacred Love
He’s a Love Warrior
She’s a Love Warrior
The Ripple Effect
Bridging Waves and Worlds
We’re all Wading in the Water
Love is the Power
I Send My Blankets Over You

Chapter Seven. Epilogue: 1997-2005