WHERE IS THE LOVE?

WHERE IS THE LOVE?

Where is the love?  Where are the love poems?  My new blog design from Word Press is now up and running and just waiting for some posts or comments, and most importantly, some poems.

February has come and gone—and no love poems.  How many wonderful love poems have been written over the ages-some pining, some whining, some sweet and sticky, some grieving, some even angry?

I confess, I’ve been writing Love Imagined for years and it remains a very thin manuscript.    But here’s to another year, another spring, another resurrection, another love(er) or at least another love poem.

ASSIGNMENT: From Nikki Giovanni’s love poem, “Resignation” use the line “I love you / because…” and keep writing.  Send me your poem as a “comment” or if you want a critique click on “Get a Critique of Your Poem.”  Or if you want to critique my poem, feel free.  I know it needs work!  I love revising!  Already I realize I should have a list poem (inside of this poem) because I didn’t mention my family that I love-my sisters my brother, my cousins, and my friends, etc.

Sherry Quan Lee

3/2/11

I love you

Because you are sixty years old and

Write love poems to yourself and

I love you

Because you stopped obsessing about finding a lover, but

Didn’t stop dreaming

Of love

I love you

Because love is your grandchildren, your sons, your step-daughters, your daughter-in-laws, and even your ex-husbands

I love you

Because Mother is the woman who taught you to love even though she couldn’t say

“I love you”

I love you

Because nothing is black and white and you understand that because your life is purple

And red

I love you

Because you survive gray days; weep and laugh and bellow and sigh and act

Instead of react –all in one day

I love you

Because you’ve got quite the imagination; you believe love

Is other than hate/there is no compromise, no balancing act, no antonym, no adjective

No excuse to not love, and to not love big.

Sherry Quan Lee

Another First Draft Lunch Hour Poem