Love Is Love

NaPoWriMo April 15: “…write your own poem that muses on love, but isn’t a traditional love poem in the sense of expressing love between romantic partners.”

One of the things I love about NaPoWriMo is when typesetter Sue Niewiarowski—who designed the covers for two of my poetry collections, Galoshes and Pollywogs—spontaneously takes my words and makes them look better than they are through her skills. I like to call her my partner in rhyme. (For more on our “Ensembles,” here’s a link.)

In the meantime, here are five (5!) of our recent NaPoWriMo ensembles exploring different kinds of love: “To My Blood Sister,” “Love Letters,” “Anyway,” “What If,” and “Addicted to Love.”

1.     The love I found in sisterhood early in life has been a renewable treasure—and a lesson—ever since.

2.     And then there’s that blind kind of love—love is blind, right?—that can bind you in a place with no escape.

3.     The real bummer about loving someone is when they disappear—die, leave you, move away, step out to the corner store…

4.     In my heart-world, love is the acceptance of another—friend, enemy, neighbor, or lover—despite whatever they believe makes them unworthy. The triolet below is to say something like “I love you as you are, right now—anyway, and deeply. I know it; you don’t quite believe it’s possible, because you think I don’t know half of your story—and if you told me, I might be take off. But you’re wrong.”

5.     Cheers to being addicted to Love!