Artwork by Tabetha Landt
What is Love?
I will start with a definition of what Love Is from the Wikipedia Dictionary Version......
Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another. It is considered a deep, ineffable feeling shared in passionate or intimate interpersonal relationships. However, in different contexts, the word love has a variety of related but distinct meanings: in addition to romantic love, which is characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire, other forms include platonic love, religious love, familial love, and the more casual application of the term to anyone or anything that one considers strongly pleasurable, enjoyable, or desirable, including activities and foods. This diverse range of meanings in a single word is commonly contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for Love, reflecting the word's versatility and complexity.
Now that we have ' Love' defined. It would appear that love is a word that touches on every part of our very being.
I will single out Romantic Love from the Definition above and present some very beautiful words to you from some of the all time Greats, and with a surprises thrown in from the not very well known.
Our Lovers Verses........
Rumi
Persian Sufi Sage and Poet
(1207 - 1273)
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
When I am with you, we stay up all night,
When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.
Praise God for these two insomnias!
And the difference between them
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.
When your chest is free of your limiting ego,
Then you will see the ageless Beloved.
You can not see yourself without a mirror;
Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror
****
There is some kiss we want
with our whole lives,
the touch of spirit on the body.
Seawater begs the pearl
to break its shell.
And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling.
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.
*****
Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love
God bless our love
God bless our love
Grow old go on with me
Two branches are one tree
Face the setting sun
When the day is done
God bless our love
God bless our love
Spending our lives together
Man and the wife together
World without hurt
World without hate
Grow old along with me
Whatever fate decrees
We'll see it thru
For our love is true
God bless our love
God bless our love
Author: John Lennon
*****
Why I Love You
I've never seen you Or touched your skin I've never felt your lips
Or held you tight But I know I love you Not because of the way you look
Or because of that sexy voice
Not because of the things you say
But because of whom you are When we meet I will kiss you
And hold you all night
I love everything about you
Because it's you.by Gary R.Hess*****Let These be Your Desires
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
But if your love and must needs have desires,
Let these be your desires:
: To melt and be like a running brook That sin
is its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart And give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer For the beloved in your heart
And a song of praise upon your lips.
Gibran Khalil Gibran (aka Jubran Kahlil Jubran)
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