If you know how to love the wind
Then you'll know how I love you
A walk through a conversation
Where your presence breezes a dance between sun ray
Skipping between trees of stories and thoughts
Memorizing everything you say
If you know how to love the wind
Then you'll know how I love you
A storm in the middle of summer
Interrupting bird songs with a voice of demand
Gusts of passion and frustration
I'm in awe by your grandiose stand
If you know how to love the wind
Then you'll know how I love you
A nervous flurry breaking composure
Sometimes silly and humming a tune
Uplifting leaves of dry and shy seasons
Charming me for a mid-afternoon
If you know how to love the wind
Then you'll know how I love you
A pause and a thought
The stillness of wind's brief reflection
I sigh and I dream
In the calmness of your affection
Through seasons and many faces
There's only one way I see Love through
If you know how to love the wind
Then you'll know how I love you
Copyright ©2004 J. R. Hollyday
Jeannette,
ReplyDeleteGreat poem! It’s amazing how you capture something so elusive (and intense) with your mighty pen. Write on word warrior!
This is about love
ReplyDeleteas simply enjoy being in the presence of someone
through the light happy moments and their not so flattering moods.
This is about loving out of freedom and choice
and joy is always present; committed to being Love and being present to create and experience.
This is a creative poem, more upbeat and positive than some of your other poems. I like your repetitive lines, it's almost like a song. Your use of the seasons in the first three stanzas gives a sense of a long-term love.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully worded, and unique imagery makes this poem an interesting way to define your love. With your depth of feeling romantically expressed through your words and style, you allowed me to read and feel the beauty of the wind.
ReplyDeletewhat you are saying is this person is so natural that its natural to love him/her and that she's/he's as beautiful as nature
ReplyDeleteJnet, I find this to be an excellent poem, in style, composition, and imagery. The use
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is very effective, but then including it within the last stanza as the closing two lines was exceptional. Lyle
Free as the wind. Uncoditional. Just for the sake of being in it. That's love.
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