With Valentine's Day approaching, here's an ode to love, which I wrote this evening after indulging in watching ballet pas de deux on You Tube.
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Falling With Abandon
Love yearns
Yearns like the sea
The shore always slipping through
Fingers of foam
Its absence cr-
-acks
cracks the heart
Cracks like a dry lake bed
Love refuses
Will never give in
Love scrambles like tiny turtles
Scrambling from the sand for their watery refuge
It stalks with lethal prowess
Stalks like the panther gazing
From the shadows
Love competes
Love collides like
Tangled antlers
It shyly flirts
Flirts like the cocked head of a kitten
Love swirls
Swirls in the pit of the stomach
Swirls like dervish snow squalls
It bursts from the breast
Bursts like startled flamingos
Love burns without warning
Love burns like orange flame
Flame wrenched from trees by blue lightening
It falls with abandon
The abandon of a glacier calving
Into the open arms
Of the sea
Love kicks with springy delight
Rambunctious delight
The springing leap of young goats
It protects
Love protects like a bear's
Swiping claw
Love soothes like the tongue
The tongue of a doe nudging her fawn
Its joy spreads
Spreads through the cosmos
Spreads like smiling stars
Stars revolving in the vast night
- Julia Smith, Feb. 7, 2010
Panther photo by Liorah_Lleucu
The Accidental Novelist says Happy Valentines Day in the tangled antlers of love!
An Aesthetic Bard says Felt like going up an ethereal escalator to ultimately reach the “smiling stars, stars revolving in the vast night”.
Janet says Love truly is multifaceted, sorrow and joy tangled together in an emotion no one is immune to!
Hi Julia! Long time no "see." :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentines Day in the tangled antlers of love!
I loved this one, woven in beautiful shades and with the many faceted images of love. Beautiful poetry, felt like going up an ethereal escalator to ultimately reach the “smiling stars, stars revolving in the vast night”. Thank you:)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Julia. Love truly is multifaceted, sorrow and joy tangled together in an emotion no one is immune to!
ReplyDeleteMust have been some ballet :)
You're so good at this!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful compendium of love's varied faces. In this moment, my favorite is
ReplyDeleteSwirls in the pit of the stomach
Swirls like dervish snow squalls
But this is a poem I could read again and again and be enchanted at every stanza.
Happy belated #3, Julia! and hooray on multiculti art int he sidebar. That may be the first portrait of the woman for whom the Taj Mahal was built I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteFlirts like the cocked head of a kitten. It most be love!!
ReplyDeleteLots of interesting imagery in this one.
ReplyDeleteAll the pictures you've woven with your words are so brilliant and beautiful. Great poem.
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