What Love Looks Like

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"If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say, Like this." - Rumi *** I lift my face to you, my anyone my only one, my love, And see your question unspoken but screamed all over you This is what love looks like What it looks like with only that one person I see you read you every line of you words without any meaning full of meaning I read you I see your face I taste the sun and the moon and all the stars in all the fireworks.

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Abosede Ogundare

Date: 12/3/2016 6:12:00 AM

Just like fireworks, love brightens us. Beautiful poem and lovely picture.

Darren White
Date: 12/3/2016 6:41:00 AM

It does, doesn't it :) And yeah, I absolutely love that picture

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/1/2016 7:24:00 PM

wow, a great poem from you, Darren. I love how you got inspired by this quote.

Darren White
Date: 12/2/2016 12:13:00 AM

Both Rumi and Hafiz are primary sources of inspiration for me, and participating in the Rumi contest gave me inspiration for this poem :)

Doug Vinson

Date: 12/1/2016 4:37:00 PM

7. Sensitive and truthful, Darren. "What love looks like" - fascinating thing. And you found it and told us, and you've got this sometimes harsh old man choked up. ||........|| Serious question here: was it hard for you to write that?

Jason Williams
Date: 12/17/2016 6:23:00 PM

Doug - It is brutal, but distance never separates two people truly in love. Darren - It does make for good love poems even though the pain is so great sometimes, but remember, "Together forever, never apart. Sometimes in distance but never in heart", Love you boo ;-)

Doug Vinson
Date: 12/4/2016 8:01:00 AM

That separation is brutal, Darren.

Darren White
Date: 12/2/2016 12:09:00 AM

Doug, I am honoured with your 7!! And that it made you emotional. Yes, in fact it IS hard to write about. The person I love lives across the ocean, and although we speak daily on Skype, I am forever feeling so sad and torn up because I haven't been able to see him in person yet... It makes for good love poems though, doesn't it...