I love to love my Love

I love to love my Love

what is it of my Love I love the most

which loveliest of lovely traits adore

so many of her pleasures I could boast

if all were willed to me, I would want more

her fragrant chestnut hair excites my skin

her scent elates me borne on slightest breeze

who dreamt...not I...her favor I would win

her “bluest of the blue” eyes own with ease

with feline grace, emerges from her clothes

with tender grasp her touch my spirit sings

so exquisite the petals of her rose

where pleasure dwells, what she desires, I bring

What is it of my Love I love the most

of her love so freely shared...that will I boast

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Vj McMullan Jan 21, 2012, 8:35pm UTC

You do have a way with words.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 12:58am UTC

I appreciate your saying that...I get it from my mother...

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marie Pinschmidt Jan 21, 2012, 8:35pm UTC

Lovely, Stephen.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 12:58am UTC

Thank you, Marie... I'm so glad you liked it...

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JOHN BECK Jan 21, 2012, 9:36pm UTC

Poetically sensual. Well done.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 12:59am UTC

Thanks a bunch, John...

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Len Maxwell Jan 21, 2012, 11:02pm UTC

Very well done.

Magi the magical poet is flowing with the wind Jan 22, 2012, 8:38am UTC

I raise John's well done and Len's very well done to no less than very, very, very well done, Stephen. You smoothie!

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 12:59am UTC

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...

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Diane Huizenga Jan 21, 2012, 11:09pm UTC

lovely

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:00am UTC

I appreciate you being so faithful in reading me...

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John Doyle Jan 22, 2012, 12:22am UTC

Your lovely poem reminds of one written by St. Bernard of Clarveau (Sp?)

Ann Marcaida Jan 22, 2012, 12:04pm UTC

St Bernard of Clairvaux. (Collection of some of his work online).

Ann Marcaida Jan 22, 2012, 12:05pm UTC

Can you find the name of the poem in that list, John?

John Doyle Jan 22, 2012, 12:29pm UTC

I was afraid someone would ask that. actually It is from a letter written by The Saint in response to a question It is called On the Necessity of loving God which i read 50 years ago and it just stuck

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:00am UTC

Thank you for the comparison... Honored...

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JustMe ~I'm happy to be~ Jan 22, 2012, 7:29am UTC

Mmmm......

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:01am UTC

I know what that means... Thanks, Michele...

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elizabeth evans Jan 22, 2012, 7:32am UTC

Then your love is a very fortunate woman!

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:01am UTC

Let's hope she thinks that...

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Chris Brockman Jan 22, 2012, 10:16am UTC

You are in love with love!

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:02am UTC

Oh, did I let that slip? How careless of me... :)
Thank you, Chris...

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Ann Marcaida Jan 22, 2012, 12:07pm UTC

I hear The Song of Songs in this. Any erotica that invites comparisons to spiritual classics is of the highest order, Steve.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:03am UTC

That is high praise for a carpenter... Thanks, Ann...you are too kind...

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Ann Marcaida Jan 22, 2012, 12:22pm UTC

#3 on the "most recommend list," hurrah!

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:04am UTC

I can't figure those things out very well...but then, I don't focus on them too much either...

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David W. Jan 22, 2012, 6:56pm UTC

lovely poem and love story.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:04am UTC

You're a great friend...Thank you, David...

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Granny Janny Jan 29, 2012, 3:58pm UTC

Featured for passion on Poet's Weekly Muse

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:04am UTC

That's an honor and a half... Thank you, Jan...

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Mike Ellwood Jan 30, 2012, 10:42am UTC

You should have saved this for St Valentine's Day! Very good. Brings John Donne to mind for some reason.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 1:06am UTC

That is a compliment to be compared to the greats once in a while... I'm not always chopped liver, apparently...That's reassuring... :)

John Doyle Feb 5, 2012, 1:12am UTC

When you write from the heart, how can you miss

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 2:08am UTC

So true, that...
Thanks, John...

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bau m. Feb 5, 2012, 4:25pm UTC

It is great to have so much to love!
Loving is what really counts.

stephen berwaldt Feb 5, 2012, 8:54pm UTC

Are you in a good place now? Tell me how you've been...
I hope you have more than you need...

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I love to love my Love

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