Poet’s Love Song #romantictuesday
Please read and enjoy the work of a talented writer.
I have been thinking about the many way poets express love through words, how often we give our words to others like gifts and how rarely people speak words of love to us in our native tongue. This is love poem to all the beautiful, brilliant poets who I am privileged to know. I see you and you are beautiful.
I see you
Yes, you poet
You who lives
Behind the misty veil
Dwelling in the border
Between this world
And a hundred other
Shadow worlds
I see you
I see those ink-stained
Fingers
That hold your pen
Like a lover
That fly across the keyboard
In a torrent
Before stopping, hesitating
Waiting
For the flow of words to resume
I see the permanent rings
Countless cups of coffee
Have left on your writing table
The chip in your favorite mug
I see the frayed fabric
On your cuffs
Of…
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