Musing on love

 Love what is love?


Love speaks softly

like a lullaby

calming and soothing

your fretting mind 

telling you everything

will be alright in the morning


hypnotized


 you fall into a deep dreamless sleep

Like a babe in a cradle


Love is a whisper, a sigh


A bird on a bough


Love is a journey on a long road


knowing when you arrive


you are home


Love is now.





Prompt: write a poem that muses on love, but isn’t a traditional love poem in the sense of expressing love between romantic partners.


I like the love is a journey theme expressed in the K. Siva Reddy poem  A Love Song Between Two Generations given as a resource poem for today.


https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-16127_A-LOVE-SONG-BETWEEN-TWO-GENERATIONS

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