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Love: A Symphony in Language
Mary Rogers-Grantham
“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
(Romans 12: 10)
February is home to Valentine’s Day, a time when we celebrate love and affection
and acts of kindness, creating a symphony in language. Poetry is a powerful
medium that provides space for movement in the sounds of love in its beauty and
pain. It allows me to hold a moment, to feel it and express it. This poem is one of
those moments, a celebratory one for my late, loving husband. It was first
published in The Art of Listening, A Digital Anthology by Linda Eve Diamond.
Harvests of Stars
When I think of you, leaves chuckle with me,
and butterflies rest in blooming sanctuaries.
I speak in currents. I speak in breezes.
I speak to a daylight moon, then to a night moon.
I find joy in the harvests of stars we made.
I pull back a memory and wait for a moment.
When I think of you, I walk through kingdoms.
Dreams landscape the music planted at my edge.
Sunrise and sunset long to dance close.
I inhale ghosts and what is not inhalable.
I forgive truths, trespasses and light.
I celebrate our whispers only heard at sunset.
When I think of you, laughter fills my eyes
blinding my emptiness and I drink deep its therapy.
I inhale the air you exhale, now so far away.
Healing feels like swallowing warm moonlight.
When night becomes shy, trees speak to my heart.
Two diamonds glisten in the dark. Our love lives.
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