Arts & Entertainment

Benicia Love Poem: "A Love"

Each day Benicia Patch will publish submissions to the annual Benicia Love Poem Contest. Readers are encouraged to comment on the poems.

"A Love" by Mary Lou Haugh

A love so deep,
so good, so full
of beginnings, so
possible,  yet so 
impossible too.
Yes, there is
such a love.
You have proven
this to me.
But somehow
you are 
more than love
itself.  You are a 
mystery, the sweetest 
mystery I have ever 
known.  Without you,
joy could not touch
my heart with such
a luminous  sensitivity. 
Just the thought 
of you fills me
with an unknown
wonder, like glittering,
golden stardust in 
the silence 
of dark nights.
You bring joy
like a ripened, tender,
purple plum,
the most delicious
one that grows 
on an ancient
phantom love tree, 
whose roots
travel endlessly.
Your love is 
like a hunger
that swallows
me then spits
me out again,
remaking me with
a deeper, more 
expansive sense 
of time,  infusing me
with a magic 'knowing'
as huge as the
sky that shelters
earth now that  
you are part
of me.


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here

More from Benicia