A Love Poem In Extremis Comments

daniel, you had me with— I love you with the slowest love on earth... what a cool unpretentious line and hook for my interest. i'm guessing that how do i love thee must have been in mind as you wrote this. but i think e.b. browning would have been pleased with your variation. i also especially like the third stanza—it is so you and ends perfectly with Every book I touch becomes our love story. cool! glen

You were reading something else while you were reading. You traced creative expression back to its source in oceanic love, but you also paid your realization forward, watching how it gets implanted in a growing thing, in a striving youthful life with its inchoate longings. You watch the life-giving cosmos assume a human face that is turned toward two worlds, first toward its individual unfolding. Through love you identify with its direction, to what ultimately ushers it outward, beyond one person's aims, always drawn toward its future by the telos of oceanic love. // In preparing to write this, perhaps you engaged with Rumi, or with whatever such a poet as Rumi engages with.

I love you with the slowest love on earth, love embedded in the mineral existence of canyons and chasms, stretching across continents- and centuries past counting. - - - - - - - - - - - -Such profound expression of love , such beauty, and such depth - - -! ! ! !

'I love you with the passage of night, into day. Flung against columns of darkness, ' is beautiful. Such a nice love poem. Reading again.

I vote with Bharati. One of the best poem that I have read on ways of loving. Simply beautiful and unique in its images. Nothing pretentious or superficial about it.

One of the best love poems I have read so far! 'I love you with the slowest love on earth. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I love you with the patience of a gardener who waits sixty years for one flower to bloom. Through sleet through scorching sun rays he lavishes his lonely care And on a dim morning of his old age A scarlet flower shines.No longer alone, he breathes its bright fragrance as night descends'

Simply sublime. A love poem of great magnitude. You have expressed your feelings in the most beautiful way there is. Every book I touch becomes our love story...what intensity of feelings! The poet sees his beloved in stars n when they fade, his beloved becomes the sunlight...divine expression. Loved it.

Unbelievable! A poem - SHOCK! it is life put in it, many dimensions of life. I feel after reading it - as after visiting the Church! such an effect- first time in my life from a poem.

Is there a woman alive that wouldn't love to have this kind of poem written for her? The speaker of this poem brims with not only love but the most patient kind of love I think I've ever heard of. I most love the stanza where the speaker compares his patient love to that of a gardener who waits sixty years for a flower to bloom. I think that is a sentiment, beautiful beyond belief. Honestly this entire poem is beautiful, but that's my favorite part :)