Rain of Love

The rain of my love

Will fall on your dying tree

Draining sweet sensation

In veins of emotion deep under

Nourishing the heartwood

With sparks of incandescent hope

Carving your pith with

The imperishable name of love

Soothing leaves in moist

By the tenderness of verse

To breath words of my voice

Echoing in you, constantly

Embracing your branches 

In care unharming nests

Where feelings rest, 

Not being alarmed 

By my squeezing chest

Protecting your precious stem

From treacherous carving knives

Tempting to distort you

As they did to pure lives

See me......! I am here.....!

Being your spring in winter

Being your warmth in cold

Loving you, till the last oak tree withstands

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is a mind-blowing poem for a weird bird like me. I've never fit into the typical mold & it's hard to find people who can embrace another fully without that pesky human tendency to pressure one to conform to one's own way. This poem is remarkable becuz of how much fertile tangible sensory digging is done, as well as becuz this invasive sort of embracing is purely to appreciate & know, but also honoring the natural & necessary separateness. I do much nature writing, but I hardly ever imbue it with so many layers of meaning/sensation (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Insight "MH"]

This poem took me nearly two weeks to write, it is the most one that I gave effort and time to write. I used a tree pic in front of me and challenged myself to use it in a love poem as a metaphor, I went back and forth looking for words that I didn't know before and I tried my best to use words all linked to the tree and nature. My other poems are not as good as this one I believe cause the other one's were written mostly in the same day and posted. Thank you for showing so much appreciation for this, ”HUGS”, MH.

[barleygirl]

I hardly ever spend more than 1/2 hour on a poem. When I "sleep" on a poem & go back to it for a bit, it's always much better, but I'm too impulsive & impatient to get on to the next thing. I usually hate love poems, which is one reason I'm in awe of anyone who can make me love a love poem!