Pamela Leavey

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Love Be Not of Reason

There’s no better day than Valentine’s Day to share a love poem. I have long been a great fan of romance poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Love Be Not of Reason is from my own journals…

Love Be Not of Reason
 
Love be not of reason,
No right nor wrong,
Love be of the season
For which there is no song.
No sense be made of desires
That once can cripple
But, the strongest tree
And, bring mere mortal man
Down to his knee.
Who sayeth that love must be so,
Who speak the words
Of Love and Woe
For truly as the sun doth shine
Your touch upon my lips
Be pleasure that is,
 But, yours and mine.
Who knows what aching
Upon thy breast
Does bring your soul to lay and rest;
Weary in the arms of love,
That heal the questions
For which there be no answer.
Love be the stars that shine,
In darkest night
Bright in your eyes;
Love be the sun that rises
To seek a new day
Of pleasure in your arms.
Love be the song of ecstasy
When in its throws
We merge as one.
Love be not of reason
No right nor wrong,
Love be of the season
For which there is no song,
But that only of two hearts
That beat as one
In it’s sweet pleasing.

c. Pamela J. Leavey

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