Love Poems
Poems Loosely about Love
by Douglas Gilbert
Deep, deep. Cheap deep. Somebody’s beem telling boys that girls like poems. Secret: mostly it’s a pun-moan except as a gesture from someone they already like, and like a classic line, and classic manipulation, those boys are like stinging insects hiding on a flower. That boy’s “all hat and no cattle.”
What about cute Nature? Revelations: bees who sting are not charming; about the prettiness of birds: Great Horned Owls break the spine of a fox and eat it alive. Plus, once in a while (once upon a time): Sharks, wolves, lions, and other creatures who have publicists extolling their virtues, actually do attack or eat people.
A tsunami of love makes waves
Vision
I have found one ripple in the ocean that
catches my focus, and
something stays in my eye
like a whirlpool in the tea cup
where I saw a vision of you once
and a prophesy.
I stare unfocused into this dark
sea patch of blue water imagining
you in a silver spiral
and in my mind I travel
through its tunnel, until
I reach into your mind, and
I seem to have captured the
chosen ripple of the sea
where clearly I see you.
I release a thought to you
for the wave to carry, and
under it forms a tsunami of love.
When it arrives
it will drown you
for a moment
but you will laugh
until a boat can bring you
the rest of me.
Douglas Gilbert, ebook: Back Door Poetry,(Amazon: ASIN : B08LQX3ZF7 ), 2019, ISBN 978-0-359-90524-9
Poet Laureate of the Primitive Planets 