drgypsy
04-10-2008, 02:05 PM
Can anyone help me identify the title and author of the poem below? Thanks in advance.
"Love comes to those who love, who find their joy
In others' joy, their tears in others' tears,
a sharing the gift of the aqueous body.
Those in need receive the gifts that buoy
Them through the misspent yearnings of their years.
Weakness is a strength, and power none,
For none has power to compel affection.
Passion to the self consumed may come,
And come it will, though power waits,
once more to be filled with a lovers grace.
But love looks for the grace of its reflection.
Love is like a tide that comes and goes,
And comes and goes according to the moon,
Giving and receiving as it flows its light
under the flacid luna, a tidal rift of lust.
Between high headlands weathered and rough-hewn.
For love becomes itself the cause of love,
A double-knot not easy to remove.
But i question, does the knot have to go?
all resplendant in its lovers bond.
I remain a lover bound and given."
"Love comes to those who love, who find their joy
In others' joy, their tears in others' tears,
a sharing the gift of the aqueous body.
Those in need receive the gifts that buoy
Them through the misspent yearnings of their years.
Weakness is a strength, and power none,
For none has power to compel affection.
Passion to the self consumed may come,
And come it will, though power waits,
once more to be filled with a lovers grace.
But love looks for the grace of its reflection.
Love is like a tide that comes and goes,
And comes and goes according to the moon,
Giving and receiving as it flows its light
under the flacid luna, a tidal rift of lust.
Between high headlands weathered and rough-hewn.
For love becomes itself the cause of love,
A double-knot not easy to remove.
But i question, does the knot have to go?
all resplendant in its lovers bond.
I remain a lover bound and given."