It’s how Love designs

Timeless—

spring arrives after winter

as the ice edges dissolve

at the rushing waterfalls--
where?

One follows another

and so with joy do bear

the stream of life-- now

snow on the plow

snow in the hair,

does to love it matter?

What has love

to do with time,

can Mind be battered?

The flow of tears

the flow of rivers

the flow of seasons

all purify

the mud

accumulated

by time, and its sludge

earth-bound … but

not of life and love!

Sweet and soft

she spoke

but he

sighs, and a tear of winter

broke.

A kiss of love offered

cloaked --

can it return? Yes!

Take the kiss and

drink 

the timeless nectar

of divinity--

its love

beauty

immortality

the ambrosia of soul

the perfume of love

to love and live!

It’s how Love designs

one and one 
and, one by one, to bind!

--eva-maria hogrefe

(October 2012)

I desire LOVE

I DESIRE LOVE

Prologue:

Your heart is beautiful

Because you desire Him.

I desire LOVE 

LOVE is God to me

You desire LOVE

LOVE is good to thee!

LOVE is good because

GOOD is God --

GOD is All

good

loving

kind

and our MIND

your strength and mine.

To desire Him

does not exclude 

the nightingale's song

the dewdrop on a rose

the blue bright sky --

the light 

that shines through YOU 

and His creation's might!

(October 2012)

On a rainy day

On a rainy day as we have today, 

a grey pall of moisture-laden air

the sky dark

cries

the winds blow around the block

the movements of thought we create

all day whistle 

harsh

no answer found within the lines

waxen and solemnly invisible

words

and so the dove flies back to its Arch

as do light-mantled sooties return

to their nests

beyond

hugging the cliff face not wrecked

but calm before the precipice

and then swing back

to the stillness

--of my heart!

--eva-maria hogrefe

(October 2012)