February 4, 2021
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is love.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
A love poem about the depth of spiritual experience that can be had through love:
Love comes unexpectedly,
An arrow to the heart,
But stays only reluctantly
Through patience, will, and art.
The full-length version of the story
Has both joy and pain,
Boredom, lust, betrayal, glory,
Anger, comfort, shame.
It ends in grief, inevitably,
Through death or separation,
The harshness of the agony
As strong as the relation.
So why, then, love? And why persist
In love long after passion
Has gone its way? And why resist
An urge one need not ration?
The answer is in something more
Than fantasy and pleasure --
A passion passion never saw,
A hunger beyond measure;
A longing for the One in one
One longs for all one's life,
And is love, yes, the same that binds
A husband to a wife.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovec3.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .
This week’s theme: Love.
February 1: A Love Duet for Contrary Voices
February 2: Dreams Do Come True
February 3: Fools Desire Flesh; the Wise Love Souls
February 4: Love Comes Unexpectedly
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