LOVE COMES SOFTLY

Love comes softly like a leaf in the wind
Have you the time to linger and listen
to the whisperings of a heart, waking
to the beauty it once only imagined?

Have you the time to linger and listen
In the simplest gestures, love is speaking.
To the beauty it once only imagined,
the soul rises like tides to the Moon calling.

In the simplest gestures, love is speaking
a heart with love, like a flower opens.
The soul rises like tides to the Moon calling
Love raises souls to be like angels in heaven.

A heart with love, like a flower opens
to give its beloved of its fullness.
Love raises souls to be like angels in heaven
reflecting God who gives love its essence.

To give its beloved of its fullness,
Love, from all time, has been destined.
Without fanfare, without pretenses,
Love comes softly like a leaf in the wind.

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Written for DVERSE’s Meeting the Bar – Repetitive Forms.  Here, I chose to write a Pantoum.  It is a form with origins in Malaysia and is written in quatrains with ABAB rhyme scheme.  In this repeating poetry form, the second and fourth   lines of the previous stanza become the first and third lines of the next stanza.  I’ve found the rhyming scheme to be quite challenging because there are not too many words that give exact rhymes to the ones I used.

 

I think I enjoy writing form poetry because it immediately gives me something to focus on. Also, knowing that I only have so many lines to write takes out all other extraneous ideas/thoughts that are not relevant.  In a way, writing form poetry is easier than writing free verse-free form poetry where I have decide what to put in and how long or short a poem should be.

About the image, I took in in October while we were watching a reenactment of the Battle of Aachen in the the American Heritage Museum, Collings Foundation in Hudson, MA.  While we were waiting for the show to begin, the couple in the picture walked in.   The way they stood and looked into each others eyes, the way they looked together, to me, spoke of a quiet deep love.  Their demeanor inspired the opening lines of this poem.

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