Thursday, February 13, 2014

Love Poems for Valentine's Day

“Even when a river of tears courses 

through this body, the flame of love 


cannot be quenched.” 


~ Izumi Shikibu



You Better Start Kissing Me 

Throw away
Your begging bowls at God's door

For I have heard the Beloved
Prefers sweet threatening shouts,

Something on the order of:
Hey, Beloved,
My heart is a raging volcano
of love for you!

You better start kissing me -
Or else!"

by Hafiz



Buoyancy


Love has taken away my practices
and filled me with poetry.
I tried to keep quietly repeating,
No strength but yours,
but I couldn’t.
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That’s how I hold your voice.
I am scrap wood thrown in your fire,
and quickly reduced to smoke.
I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,

~Rumi

Wild Nights – Wild Nights!

    Were I with thee
    Wild Nights should be
    Our luxury!
    Futile – the Winds –
    To a Heart in port –
    Done with the Compass –
    Done with the Chart!
    Rowing in Eden –
    Ah, the Sea!
    Might I but moor – Tonight –
    In Thee!
~Emily Dickinson

Much Joy!
Happy Valentine's Day!
~Alyssa
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