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What Love Looks Like

"If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this."

- Rumi

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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. Login to Reply 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. Login to Reply 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? Login to Reply 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...

Jan Allison Date: 12/1/2016 2:07:00 AM aww so romantic Darren such a beautiful poem:-) hugs Jan xx7 Login to Reply Darren White Date: 12/1/2016 2:34:00 AM Owww, thanks Jan :) hugs xx

Tim Smith Date: 11/30/2016 10:05:00 AM You created your own fireworks here. Login to Reply Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 10:08:00 AM I did, and I like it :) Thanks.

Becca Teagan Date: 11/30/2016 7:04:00 AM Very beautifully penned, Darren Login to Reply Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 7:35:00 AM Thank you :)

Probir Gupta Date: 11/30/2016 6:17:00 AM Artistic ... very nice ... Login to Reply Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 7:35:00 AM Thank you...

Claudia Polydoro Date: 11/30/2016 4:36:00 AM That's exactly how it looks like - beautifully said my friend :* Login to Reply Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 5:09:00 AM Thanks Claudia! :)

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 11/30/2016 4:32:00 AM - True love :) - Beautiful written, Darren - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Login to Reply Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 5:08:00 AM Thank you Anne-Lise :)

Jason Williams Date: 11/30/2016 2:17:00 AM I love that, heartfelt. -- And it also looks like this boo. ;-) Login to Reply Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 2:20:00 AM <3 Darren White Date: 11/30/2016 2:19:00 AM It does, doesn't it :)