[New-Poetry] two more love poems in the nick of time

[Anny Ballardini]

It is very difficult to find a love poem that can be of interest. 
Thank you for sending these two over, 
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  Subject: [New-Poetry] two more love poems in the nick of time


  In Yellow Grass

  In the yellow grass
  each gathers with its own kind—
  and the lion-beauty cuts that invisible pen,
  the bright wires trampled or leapt.

  So, love, it will be with us, both
  lion and prey—our mouths so deep in richness
  only the wild scent of earth will be left
  to tremble, after.

  --

  Meeting the Light Completely

  Even the long-beloved 
  was once 
  an unrecognized stranger.

  Just so,
  the chipped lip
  of a blue-glazed cup,
  blown field 
  of a yellow curtain,
  might also,
  flooding and falling,
  ruin your heart.

  A table painted with roses.
  An empty clothesline.

  Each time,
  the found world surprises—
  that is its nature.

  And then
  what is said by all lovers:
  “What fools we were, not to have seen.” 

  —Jane Hirshfield, The October Palace, Harper Collins, 1994


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