Love Poem - To Life

How do I love thee...like sparkling diamonds
that promise undying magnificence, 
a sky an intricate lace gilded with stars at night, 
pulling my soul into depths of wonderment.

How do I love thee...like a garden in spring, 
flowers and vines cascading in riotous profusion, 
a fountain splashing rainbows into its pool - 
paradise blowing magic in the air.

How do I love thee... like a newborn child 
asleep in its cradle, a smile of innocence 
tugging the corners of its mouth, sweet, heart-breaking.
One wishes the moment will pause forever.

How do I love thee...like early snow falling gently, 
covering drabness on a stretch of dusty highway, 
wrapping bare trees in majestic white and elegance
and distant mountains looming in dreamy silence.

I could go on chanting and extolling praises 
of what life offers to those who seek and find
the beauty, the marvels, the miracles, the enchantment -
all these around us - and more.


@jjote 022221

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021



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Date: 4/7/2021 8:27:00 PM
Nice write with shades of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I enjoyed this.
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Date: 2/23/2021 1:21:00 PM
Yes, if we embrace everything around us...we are left breathless!
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Josefina Costales
Date: 2/25/2021 1:13:00 PM
Thank you Kim. Glad you found my poem. Just starting to write again, getting my feet wet, er, pen, again.
Date: 2/22/2021 1:12:00 PM
"how do I love thee..." I really like the consistency and what you did at the end of each of these lines.
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Josefina Costales
Date: 2/25/2021 1:13:00 PM
Thanks Karen. Appreciate your read.
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