What is Love?
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You ask me what is love, I say it’s naught.
For love can not be framed in logic’s reason;
What mind can comprehend those yearnings wrought
In hearts enraptured in love’s vernal season?
Behold the rose in bloom ‘neath summer’s sky,
Drenched in the morning dew, her fleeting fashion
Sparks fission in the musing poet’s eye,
His quill is filled to brim with ardent passion;
For passion’s root lies buried in mortality,
Yet love transposes finite mortal measure,
A moment shared becomes perpetuality,
A stolen kiss, immortalized forever.
Two mortal hearts flushed bright with love’s vermilion,
Walk boldly, hand-in-hand, into oblivion.
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This is amazing!
Now that is a wonderful complement. Thank you.
I mean, really, once I’ve read it again, I must comment further. I just adore how effortless it is to read and how lyrical, and with such sighs….
I’m so pleased you enjoyed it. It’s the only reason I write.
I can understand that sentiment.
How funny that I should land here first when I came to your blog via your comment on my post about newborn love! This is beautiful. I have only just started to write so am still learning about how to use measure etc – this is great inspiration.
So kind of you to comment. After reading your poem I am sure you have been writing in your heart for a long time, now is the time for it coming out. The sonnet is one of my favourite forms, traditionally confined to rigid rule of meter and rhyme-scheme, but I find the symmetry to be very beautiful. I’m very glad you found my poem pleasing. Thank you.
Love this. Thanks for liking my post on my Food Stamps Manifesto, I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read on your site and look forward to more. Following!
Well, thank you so much Erin, I’m pleased that you like my poem, and thanks for following too. The English Sonnet is my favourite form,there’s just something deeply gratifying about finishing one!
BTW, I love your self-description on the Gravatar!
Hi Erin, thanks for visiting and liking.