Last year I invited poets to write a few lines about love on my old blog. What is it and what does it mean? How can we unravel something so painfully elusive? This year I invited them back to reflect a year later: Helle Gade, Regina Puckett, and Poppy Ruth Silver.
But also, I invited more writers: Justin Bog, Tim Giles, Dan Leicht, Michelle Franklin, Natasha Head, Chris McQueeney, Christopher G.J. Smith, Kim Stapf, Saket Suryesh, and Rob Zimmermann. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and opening your souls.
Additional thanks to those contributing last year whose poems I have reposted: Brock Gates, Amber Norrgard, Susie Clevenger, Sreya Bremtin.
Last Year
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I will fight against you, for you
Because you mean more to me
than any fight can ever erase
– Amber Jerome~Norrgard
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Breathes held between
lingering sighs. Tangled thoughts
hemorrhage through loving eyes.
– Regina Puckett
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It is the surrender
that loses light
and yet invites
– Poppy Ruth Silver
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I walked into your soul
Embraced all that you were with my love
But death is a jealous lover
Now that you are gone
I’ll forgive, but never forget
– Helle Gade
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When hate dies, compassion begins, when a violent urge to take care and be one with another, that is a two side deal, to break free of the curse of loneliness
– Brock Gates
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Love is energy
And motion over time
Transcending distance.
Love will save us
If it doesn’t kill us first.
Broken bottles
Shatter glass
Into a love letter
On the tear stained floor.
– Ben Ditmars
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I.
midnight rain kisses
shower eye lashes with dew
the sweet love of you
II.
spider web wishes
tangle around thoughts of you
to hold fast my heart
III.
you spoke, i answered
together we wrote the words
that said everything
– Sreya Bremtin
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I came with heartbreak
and you never left my side
through sickness and health
together we stood
facing every storm trusting
faith would see us through
goodnight never saw
our heads lay upon anger
forgiveness our choice
life came with its thorns
but they couldn’t divide us
love defied all odds
– Susie Clevenger
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Revisited
Undefeatable Debt
Hearts are like fragile, breakable beasts
When we yield to love’s unforgiveable feasts
We’ll partake of what it offers without any regret
Any pretend we won’t drown in its undefeatable debt
– Regina Puckett
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There is only the
softness of your heartbeat, merged
eternally, here
– Poppy Silver
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Careful Motion
years have taught me to be careful
with finesse and tenderness
but rules are made of fragments
to be broken down as motion
shatters obstacles –
we groove on the same
wavelength.
– Ben Ditmars
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Love’s Light
I’ll keep that light
Always in my sight
So I’ll never be lost
In the chaos again
– Helle Gade
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This Year
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Love Is…
A steady gaze, calm,
Prescient worlds, universes;
Celestial bangs
– Justin Bog
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I was thinking though and I can’t accurately describe love right now just because of where I am. I hope to have an answer one day, but for now the very thing eludes me and is drenched in a kind of monochrome nostalgia with hues of yellow.
– Timothy Giles
The sloom of sense,
the first confusion of limerance,
the equal joy of redemancy:
affection unbound
– Michelle Franklin
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A Lovely Way To Share
The feel of a new book, knowing you have a new escape
Finding a new show to watch on Netflix, learning there’s two seasons
Meeting someone for the first time, finding out they actually like your jokes
Waking up to a Saturday morning, sitting down to write right away
Seeing that same person again who liked your jokes, laughing together again
Love is many things, our interests, escapes, but it’s also the feeling of never being alone
It’s the feeling of finding those things that make us feel closer to others.
– Dan Leicht (D.e.e.L)
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In love, we are, at best…inadequate.
We have mastered infatuation
Manipulation, copulation and lies.
We have embraced jealousy, envy and resentment.
Love is free
From all these things.
I’m not saying we’re not learning.
I’m not giving up Hope.
I try to love every day,
Without prejudice
Without condition.
In this I know,
Until I defeat selfishness & self-hate
The heart I have to offer
Is nothing more than illusion
The “love”
A dictionary definition.
– Natasha Head
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Wall punch your way
A friend asked me today
What love meant to me
And what I had to say
About it
I drew a blank
And I have to thank you
For getting out of it-
What does love mean to me
Is it the thing that has
Caused me countless
Hours of misery
Heart ache and pain
Eyes dribbling
Wall punch your way
Through another day of love
Or is it the other
Chest constricting
Heart melting through your
Fingertips kind of way
Love is like an IV drip
Keeping me alive another day
I like to think the latter
At least that is what keeps me
Coming back for more
– Chris McQueeney
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A beautiful woman approached a man and asked him for a light, he picked up his lighter and lit her cigarette. He never spoke, she stood watching him and walked away. For most of the night he could she her watching him but not once did he show any interest. The bar closed and he walked through the dark streets before a woman’s voice asked him to stop. “Do you not think I’m beautiful?” she asked. “Yes” he replied. “Would you like to spend the night?” she asked him, but he shook his head. “You are the most desirable woman I’ve ever seen, but it cannot be” he said. “Then tell me why?” she questioned. He answered, “Someone waits at home for me, she makes me laugh but also makes me cry, she helps me but can make the bitter of arguments, she has gone through so much with me and to me she is the most beautiful woman that will always shine through my eyes”. The woman kissed the man on the cheek, but as she turned to walk away said; “You are both blessed to know true love, I wish I could find love like that”.
– Christopher G.J. Smith
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To be in love
Soaring high
Passion burning from within
Raging for release
– Kim Stapf
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Love speaks in whispers
Holding shoulder, looking into eyes,
And when cries in longing
Pierces through the mellowed
Breast of the skies.
It arrives unannounced
On tip-toe, like a gentle breeze
Through lonely nights,
And when leaving
Slams the door so hard
That a thunder roars
With the feral vengeance of death,
Which reverberates through the soul.
Love, when it meets you
Nourishes the soul,
And in awkward shyness smiles.
It keeps you up long nights
Writing reams and running longest miles.
– Saket Suryesh
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What Love Is?
Do you know what love is?
Can you define thousands
of emotions in the four letters?
I cannot. But I try.
Isn’t that love, in the end?
Realizing you’ve found her,
knowing no words are worthy.
– Rob Zimmermann
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