Love Poetry Poem by Chester Maynes

Love is a dog at child’s arms
Love is a petal of rose and a lullaby
Love is a blue sea in raging storms
Love is a baby born in a rocking cradle

Love is not a broken bottle on the floor
Love is not a someone’s headache and puke
Love is not a toilet of humans and animals
Love is not a murder of pets and butterflies

To love is to spark like an orange fire
To love is to dance with a moon at night
To love is to breathe the air of God
To love is to see how the sun shines at dark

I love the pimples on my face
I love the tall giraffes of Africa
I love the bamboo trees in my dreams
I love the soldiers in the battlefield


(written on July 24,2008 Marikina City Philippines)