For today's prompt, write a love poem. Simple as that. Poets who've done the PAD challenges in the past know I always sneak this one in somewhere during the month. And if you're all anti-love poem, that's fine. Express your anti-love in a poem as well; it still counts toward this prompt.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
-Carl Sagan
Not for a minute could I express the well of the sea
unseen pressing out in the South Pacific
as I sleep
how that I love
how that is love
rise and swell
A hawk lifts from the top of skinny pine and the first dusting of snow
drifts down, still drifting as he banks into the river canyon
how that I love
how that is love
light and particle
Little dog in a sweater curled on the lap of someone I'll never know
Somewhere I will never go, their weather not mine, a clock ticking
in the kitchen
time and self
selves
how that I love
how that is love
A poet reads his lines in his head, watches from his window
his children waiting for the school bus, stepping on and off the sidewalk
visible breath
music
story
a space somewhere (where?) for vision
visons
that is love
that I love
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