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Sensually connected to love
Love can and should be a full-bodied experience. We live it with every sense. These poems celebrate the sensual bodies that give home to love.
7 poems
Epiphanyby Sophie Strand, contemporary“My heart was made to be split open, like the milkweed pod, and scattered”
I know you knowby Michelangelo, 1475 ~ 1564“Let the wall between our hopes and desires be battered down.”
Love Songby Henry Dumas, 1934 ~ 1968“On hands and knees the ocean begs up the beach, then falls at your feet.”
Salt Rose and Topazby Pablo Neruda, 1904 ~ 1973“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
When faces called flowersby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s(kiss me now)spring!”
Your Cathedralby Wilfred O'Dea, c1910? ~ unknown“You draw from me broken now holy that yes”