Tears of Love

Love tears are sweet
Like honey liquor
Shed in happiness and murky moments
Inevitable like death in life

Parting paints painful patterns
On lovers’ hearts’ books
Love is so binding
Yet forbidding when heartbreaking

I once received a calabash
Frothing with love like traditional beer
From a skilled brewer
My folly drained it with a quick wish

I gobbled it with a gush
I wished for more
But the giver had fled
Left drunk in sweet tears of love...
Oh! She was never to return!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Brown Avatar
July 7, 2011 at 6:40 AM
What more could I ask for today? It is a beautiful day the sun shining and birds singing. I am reading your poetry in which you share a little of yourself maybe without even realizing it you have written from your soul. Thank you for sharing your excellent poetry with us Arnold. Love, Carol
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July 7, 2011 at 7:01 AM
thank you Carol; your comments are touching. You are a great poet am looking up to and sincerely you inspire me to write more and more. Once again, thank you very much, I really appreciate.
Foley Avatar
July 7, 2011 at 5:43 AM
I kike your gentle way wth words and your mix of ideas. Lovely. Regards Ian Foley
Mutugi Avatar
July 7, 2011 at 7:04 AM
Thanks Ian. Regards, Arnold
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