Love Poems

Following God Together - Apart.

O Lord, our eyes are fixed on You,

And we’ll move when You move,

But O Lord,

It’s foggy today;

Where have You painted Your pillar of cloud

On this canvas of gray?

Or, Lord,

We’re passing through flame,

And as to in which fiery column you glow,

How can we know?

We roam

These paths we thought You called us to—

Is that a dead end ahead,

Or only a sharp turn?—Or does the path forge through?

Lord, wouldn’t longer straights

And fewer tracings-back

Constitute a wiser track

Home?

And when?—

When, when, when?—

Will our paths meet again?

And not just meet, but cleave?

The sun’s hidden up heaven’s sleeve,

And I’ve lost count of turn after turn—

Are You leading us farther or nearer again?

Our hearts burn.

February 2012








Epiphany Tea for Two

When there was nothing left to say,

We just beamed at each other.

Like how my mother

Wordless repeats the refrain

Of tender, ferocious love

In a gaze

Shyly, like children;

Shyly, like little girls' first meeting,

But trusting to share what strangers can't:

Full eye-lock without speech filling it.

I trespassed long on your hospitality,

Both a little awkward, alone together,

But pleasurably.

And when we had exhausted

Family, Hometown, Epiphany –

We just beamed at each other,

My sister.

Winter 2008

Pumpkin Pie By the lake and By the moonlight, sitting on the sand More-than-friends and Almost love-ers more than holding hands If the moon was Any brighter, Romance might just Kill us, you and I. Three-armed racing Dunes and breathless dark splash water flood Walking now and Finger-meshed still pumping legs and blood I thought love Would be like salsa; Movies never Taught me pumpkin pie. Pupils race to Open, film-fast morning glories swirl Open arms and Open hearts and trembling boy and girl Whisper to me, Voice just cracking (First-time terror):                                  .  .  I love you.                                 (Pumpkin pie)                                                              .  .  I love you, too. 2010

Love in Progress

I'm

Savoring the sweetness of loving you,

Learning to bear the pain,

Praising the King of my heart for you,

Learning to give you away

                  To the One who made us

                                  and saved us

                                    sustains us even still.

                                Who linked us

                                   and leads us

                                    however He will.

We're

Savoring the sweetness of loving the world,

Learning to bear the pain,

Praising the King of our hearts for its good,

Learning to give it away.

                   To the Three who know:

                                    if and when,

                                    why and how

                                    every end;

We follow.

2009