Best Poems Written by Joel Shafer Harris

Is Love Mundane

Is love mundane as it mingles with the masses and the multitude?

Prosaic as it plays among the plethora of the plenty?

Everywhere teeming, like cicadas' mating call seething

Shimmering with the soft slip of the breeze of the midsummer's

Evening. Even the trees and their leaves weaving in wind

Do bring everlasting love life light when they spin

Yes. It is everywhere among everything and this should not

Make it more common but more grander a thing

As ocean loves land exploding against it

And a thousand million sand particles nestle in ancient bedrock

Embrace. And a sentry of ants guards the queen's sticky palace

Everywhere it is and this should not cultivate contempt

But hurry on worship

As love's temple is set down among the smallest of things

Look there's its altar a plane of grass fed by the wind

And the the beasts they bend down, they feed, freed of their sin

A carnal communion, love's substance transferred again

And God's sun he looks down because we can see 

We can't see what he sends. A love that makes everything

Alive one more day before end. One more day before end.

Copyright © Joel Shafer Harris | Year Posted 2012