Love Poem, Poets' Circle Collaboration

Love Poem

 

Love, from seed to seed, from planet to planet

Memorialize a moment

Like paint on canvas.

Sweet surrender.

Hot canvas.

Cool nights

With love like a knife.

At my back

before me…

Only the light

bright and pure and cutting

 like a knife.

Make my day and make it a delight!

Open to hot gluttony and undulate like sweet ambrosia before God.

Sing with lavish violet verve, a tin lizzie of clematis.

The flowers brightened like a flame

Then faded and dropped to the ground.

--Group Poem

Watsonville Public Library, Poets’ Circle

February 14, 2013

(“Love, from seed to seed, from planet to planet” from a sonnet by Pablo Neruda)