Love Poem Poem by Kathleen Jessie Raine

Love Poem

Rating: 3.4


Yours is the face that the earth turns to me,
Continuous beyond its human features lie
The mountain forms that rest against the sky.
With your eyes, the reflecting rainbow, the sun's light
Sees me; forest and flower, bird and beast
Know and hold me forever in the world's thought,
Creation's deep untroubled retrospect.

When your hand touches mine it is the earth
That takes me--the green grass,
And rocks and rivers; the green graves,
And children still unborn, and ancestors,
In love passed down from hand to hand from God.
Your love comes from the creation of the world,
From those paternal fingers, streaming through the clouds
That break with light the surface of the sea.

Here, where I trace your body with my hand,
Love's presence has no end;
For these, your arms that hold me, are the world's.
In us, the continents, clouds and oceans meet
Our arbitrary selves, extensive with the night,
Lost, in the heart's worship, and the body's sleep.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ken E Hall 21 June 2009

Stunning with the strength of a tornado...love has no ashes.

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Fay Slimm 28 August 2008

Poem to the truest love, the ancient of ancient loves, the everlasting love. Love expressed to and through all our senses, if we have sense to see.

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Nick Smithe 24 January 2005

This made my stomach ache. i'm not sure why.

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