Poetic Love In Action Poem by John Knight

Neither of us knew how it happened
There was no great preparation
No long exchange of correspondence
No loud ringing of the Cloche d'Amour!
No announcment in the local press
No consultation with the 'Wise Men at the Gate!
It happened suddenly without warning
Without premenition or even premeditation.

We were both (just) - Old enough to know
It could happen - Wise enough to know
It might happen - Strong enough to know
If it did happen - We could both cope!
But - were we - old enough - wise wnough
Strong enough to cope with the emotion?
Until it happened we really didn't know
So when it happened - we just went with the flow!

Love is a liquid - warm - fluid - viscous
It does flow over you - one Empathy
It does flow under you - one Excavation
It does flow through you - one Experience
It does flow in you - one Emotion
It does flow continuously - one Existence
It does flow slowly - one Ecstacy
It does flow simultaneously - one Embrace

Our perfect love broke all the barriers
Of Age - of Distance - of Nationality
Of Convention - of Culture - of Comprehension
Where was the common ground?
Where was the common bond?
Where was the common sense?
Where was the communication?
In WORDS - can mere WORDS generate love?

These were not normal words
Black alphbeties on a field of white
These were not normal words
Prose - Politics - Polemics - Prophecy
Words in books - pamphlets - theses
Such words stir the mind - but not the heart.
These were poetic words - cupid's dart words
Bypassing the brain - reaching the heart - the soul!

The greatest goal of Poemhunters
Is the serendipic exchange of the 'Music of the Muse'
A poem or two a message or two
An exchange of ideas - images - ideology
A symbiosis of poetic minds
A symbiosis of emotional ideas and ideals
An exchange - cerebral - engaging - emotional
Neither of us still don't know how it happened - but it did!