Today’s Poem

Today’s Poem ~ The Key to Love

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The Key to Love

Author Unknown

The key to love is understanding..
The ability to comprehend not only the spoken word
But those unspoken gestures
The little things that say so much by themselves.
The key to love is forgiveness..
To accept each others faults and pardon mistakes
Without forgetting, but with remembering
What you learn from them.
The key to love is sharing..
Facing your good fortunes as well as the bad, together
Both conquering problems, forever searching for ways
To intensify your happiness.
The key to love is giving..
Without thought of return
But with the hope of just a simple smile
And by giving in but never giving up.
The key to love is respect..
Realising that you are two separate people, with different ideas
That you don’t belong to each other
That you belong with each other, and share a mutual bond.
The key to love is inside us all..
It takes time and patience to unlock all the ingredients
That will take you to its threshold
It is the continual learning process that demands a lot of work..
But the rewards are more than worth the effort.
And that is the key to love.

Today’s Poem ~ Sonnet 29

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Sonnet 29

William Shakespeare

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Today’s Poem ~ The Madness of Love

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The Madness of love

Hadewijch of Antwerp

The madness of love
Is a rich fief;
Anyone who recognized this
Would not ask Love for anything else:
It can unite Opposites
And reverse the paradox.
I am declaring the truth about this:
The madness of love makes bitter what was sweet,
It makes the stranger a kinsman,
And it makes the smallest the most proud.

To souls who have not reached such love,
I give this good counsel:
If they cannot do more,
Let them beg Love for amnesty,
And serve with faith,
According to the counsel of noble Love,
And think: ‘It can happen,
Love’s power is so great!’
Only after his death
Is a man beyond cure.

Today’s Poem ~ With That Moon Language

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With That Moon Language

Hafiz

Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, ‘Love me.’

Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise
someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a
full moon in each eye that is
always saying,

with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in
this world is
dying to
hear?

Today’s Poem ~ Love’s Reality

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Love’s Reality

Coventry Patmore

 I walk.

I trust, with open eyes;

I’ve travelled half my worldly course;

And in the way behind me lies

Much vanity and some remorse;

I’ve lived to feel how pride may part

Spirits, tho’ matched like hand and glove;

I’ve blushed for love’s abode, the heart;

But have not disbelieved in love;

Nor unto love, sole mortal thing

Or worth immortal, done the wrongT

o count it, with the rest that sing,

Unworthy of a serious song;

And love is my reward: for now,

When most of dead’ning time complain,

The myrtle blooms upon my brow,

Its odour quickens all my brain.

Today’s Poem ~ Life

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Life

Charlotte Bronte

LIFE, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall ?

Rapidly, merrily,
Life’s sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily,
Enjoy them as they fly !

What though Death at times steps in
And calls our Best away ?
What though sorrow seems to win,
O’er hope, a heavy sway ?
Yet hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered, though she fell;
Still buoyant are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear us well.
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair !

Today’s Poem ~ The Character of a Happy Life

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The Character of a Happy Life

Sir Henry Wotton

 How happy is he born or taught

That serveth not another’s will,

Whose armor is his honest thought,

And simple truth his highest skill;

Whose passions not his masters are;

Whose soul is still prepared for death,

Untied unto the world with care

Of princes’ grace or vulgar breath;

Who envies none whom chance doth raise,

Or vice; who never understood

The deepest wounds are given by praise,

By rule of state but not of good;

Who hath his life from rumours freed,

Whose conscience is his strong retreat,

Whose state can neither flatterers feed

Nor ruins make accusers great;

Who God doth late and early pray

More of his grace than goods to send,

And entertains the harmless dayW

ith a well-chosen book or friend.

This man is free from servile bands

Of hope to rise or fear to fall,

Lord of himself, though not of lands,

And having nothing, yet hath all.

Today’s Poem ~ Love Song

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Love Song

William Carlos Williams

 Sweep the house clean,

hang fresh curtains

in the windows

put on a new dress

and come with me!

The elm is scattering

its little loaves

of sweet smells

from a white sky!

Who shall hear of us

in the time to come?

Let him say there was

a burst of fragrance

from black branches.

Today’s Poem ~ Possession

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Possession

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

That which we had we still possess,

Though leaves may drop and stars may fall;

No circumstance can make it lessOr take it from us, all in all.

That which is lost we did not own;

We only held it for a day–A leaf by careless breezes blown:

No fate could take our own away.

I hold it as a changeless law

From which no soul can ever sway or swerve,

We have that in us which will draw

Whate’er we need or most deserve.

Even as the magnet to the steel

Our souls are to the best desires;

The Fates have hearts and they can feel-

-They know what each true heart requires.

We think we lose when most we gain;

We call joys ended ere begun;

When stars fade out do skies complain,

Or glory in the rising sun?

No fate could rob us of our own-

-No circumstance can make it less;

What time removes was but a loan,

For what was ours we still possess.

Today’s Poem ~ Choose

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Choose

Carl Sandburg

THE single clenched fist lifted and ready,

Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.                    

Choose:

For we meet by one or the other.

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