Unable to live in guilt and fear;
We yearn for love that much is clear.
Love is such arrives unnoticed;
To give us pleasure its only motive.
Unable to live alone in pain;
Love uplifts so we may gain.
It makes the heart go warm and soft;
In love our deepest of qualms are lost.
Love enables our soul to live;
In time we learn to trust – forgive
Our heart it sings a thousand songs;
Distinguish between the rights and wrongs.
We dance in love – embrace its light
Though lie awake in hours of night.
Love dares one to be wild and brave;
And long for all we wish and crave.
So strive to hear wherever you are;
Perhaps store love inside your jar.
Mortals in all their wisdom agree;
Love is bound to set them free.
Photo credits: www.turnbacktogod.com
An attempt to expand to Maya Angelou’s poem “Touched by an Angel.”
Posted for Poetics @ dVerse Poets Pub
Lovely.
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A great sentiment – the love is all, the only need we have really.. Such an angel’s touch is all we need.
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Very moving and so true. We need God’s love if we are going to make it. This respects Maya Angelou’s work too
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Very nice job; the touches of Maya are sweet & authentic. I love the image header as well, ANGELS IN AMERICA is an incredibly powerful play & film & sentiment. At first I thought you might be responding to the play, but Maya is stirring enough as a catalyst. As the Beatles said: Love is all we need.
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Love certainly does enable our soul to live! Without it we would whither away. I am a great fan of Maya Angelou’s poetry also, but though I enjoy her writing I would not say that she is a poet who inspires mine.
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Wonderful image and poem choice…I love Maya!
Your poem holds many contrasts gracefully.
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I admire this line: Our heart it sings a thousand songs;
And specially love the ending verses Sanaa ~ A lovely response to one of my (many) favorite poets ~
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Really like those last two lines, especially.
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very tender and beautiful feeling expressed here. Gorgeous poem.
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a gentle rhythm and hopeful and lovely
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A beautiful expression of the powers of love.
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I like the idea of putting love in a jar to be able to use perhaps when we are low and feeling alone. Lovely as always, Sanaa.
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Lovely love poem. We all need a love that frees us.
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Love the image and the sentiment. As one who has experienced two medical miracles in our family, I truly believe there are angels along the way.
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Love is divine for sure, this is a beautiful treatise to God’s greatest gift
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much love…
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What a lovely piece!
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