Long Infinite love Poems

World's Longest Love Poem (second edition)


Title: My love my all

Edited by Izunna Okafor


Editor's Note:

Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...

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~ In  His   Image~
(Acrostic)


In his image  He’s created us all
New things, are  all  possible in His Holy name

He’s our Father. He watches from Heaven
Indeed, He deserves  all the...

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God's power works best in my weakness
God pours out himself by the holy spirit
my faith makes me whole in spirit, soul & body
I empty my mind of all thoughts except for the thought of God

God's...

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In Love's Embrace This Soul Shall Flourish
(Collaboration Nicola Byrne and Robert Lindley)


“Beloved, forgive my reservations, for dismay has taken hold;
Though thy love has cast infinite smiles upon a jaded grimace,
I am bound by poisoned notions,...

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GOD’S CHRISTMAS STORY

The Christmas story’s more than just a baby in a stall;
Let’s tell this story not in part; no, let us tell it all.
It’s more than just a carpenter and his new virgin bride,
For...

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Digital Prints

When lightening had blighted their perilous shadows at break neck speed

Vision and mystery succumbed sprightly beyond recognition scared and scarred

Obliterated in illiterate darkness they were easy prey for shadow’s projections

‘Tinkerbell’ had lost her way...

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~The Rainbow Connection~ 
( Free  Flow  Style ) 


I write with all my heart 
And every time that I do it 
I feel all day long 
Like smiling and laughing a bit. 

Writing...

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~The Rainbow Connection~ 
(Free  Flow) 


I write with all my heart 
And every time that I do it 
I feel all day long 
Like smiling and laughing a bit. 

Writing poetry for me 
Is...

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~The Rainbow Connection~ 
(Rhyme) 


I write with all my heart 
And every time that I do it 
I feel all day long 
Like smiling and laughing a bit. 

Writing poetry for me 
Is such a...

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The Rainbow Connection~
 (Rhyme )


 I write with all my heart 
 And every time that I do it
 I feel all day long 
 Like smiling and laughing a bit

 Writing poetry for me
...

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I write with all my heart 
And every time that I do it 
I feel all day long 
Like smiling and laughing a bit. 

Writing poetry for me 
Is such a powerful tool you see,...

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As a human being weighed down by guilt, afraid, alone- traveling down a road more traveled, putting a tough act on- Shimmerings of light in the darkest of times and "almost tears" bound by worldly...

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I write with all my heart 
And every time that I do it
I feel all day long 
Like smiling and laughing a bit

Writing poetry for me
Is such a powerful tool you see,
It’s more like a...

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I am sitting down with my pen,
in a faraway land
For many days, I recalled my memories,
That faded with poor calories
I want to share the aesthetic childhood
spent in the lap of a maternal knighthood.

They are my...

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I faced alarming paradoxes
as I headed toward puberty.

First,
my King James Bible-belting parents,
extended family,
and all-hopelessly-WHITE farm community
taught me

God loves me
and all the children,
red and yellow,
and black almost as much as white.

That felt good
but then I learned...

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She tearfully told him, "I'm sorry, but I'm pregnant." 
" What do you want me to do?" " I don't know!" 
" What would your mother and father think?" "I can't
tell them!"They were both teenagers...

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You’ve given me another year
365 blank pages
To fill up
I know that your ultimate desire
Is for me to fill them in ways
That are according to your will
And that bring you joy
And that make your divine face
Break...

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In the twilight of existence, where shadows whisper the secrets of the ages,
I wander among the living dead, souls entwined in the forms of beasts,
Creatures of the night cloaked in human guise, their eyes portals...

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My Velvet Princess

As I dry these tears unbidden such a sad anniversary again claims my existence 
She’s gone; the light of my heart and song of my now desolate soul transcended to a place 
beyond...

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Evangelical fundamentalists,
whether Christian or Islamic or Zionist or Atheist or...
turn away from gospel culture and culturally contextualized scripture
inspired by a God/dess of liberal multicultural divine love,
synergy,
regeneration,
grace,
gratitude for and of secular/sacred 
nature/spirit bilateral integrity.

Evangelical chauvinists
would return...

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Hello dear friend – so – what’s new?
Tell me - How have you been?
There’s so much I want to share with you
But I hardly know where to begin

The news from here’s both good and bad
But...

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* This one is for my Mommy, her Mommy ETC- the lucky ones.


Nourishment- encouragement.

Minister of all heart's treasure
Donor of the kindest pleasure 
Infinite love, no measure
Powerful embraces, your leisure.
 
Sublime being, forever proud
Never shallow, nor...

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I Love Him.

I will dream of him
lighting up my darkness,
covering me with his perfume
go crazy with love, 
and make our life sufficient
gentle and persevering.

It is time to look outside
and feel fearless,
face what I fear the...

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Christmas Love Came Down

Christmas cheers chime as chubby cheeked children anticipate and wait. 
Hoping that they have lived well enough for presents up to this date.
Reality relies on the realizations that love from parents and...

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In the memory of Eden, when we flew innocently,
In the nights of dreams, in the bittersweet garden, we met,
You were the pure flower, I was the divine tree,
In a long-gone era, when I was younger,...

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