if love is an element a solid a liquid a mist of electrons and protons with viscosity and surface tension if love is magnetic beyond magic if love crawls out of the mud and becomes amphibian if love sleeps in a cave and climbs up out of the roots every spring if love is the grain of every day if love is a mythological being that orbits the sun if love comes in a dream and lives longer than the day stands tall in all shadow if love is in the jetstream and it breathes and speaks and bends all the trees backwards if love is all the wind and all the rain and all the sun and everything that burns in this world and the next and the next, and the next if love is then we walk like gods within it together everywhere as walking gods never walk alone
poster for the sunday muse and earthweal
jalopy dreams 
This is beautiful, and so unique in the images used.
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thank you sir, i’m glad you enjoyed
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The journey of what love is – it is so much more than I think we can ever truly comprehend. The following resonates with me as a dreamer.
if love comes in a dream
and lives longer than the day
stands tall in all shadow
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thank you truedessa, i’m glass you liked this
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Wonderful to read you again. I must depend on the answer being affirmative as anything else is unthinkable.
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thank you ms jade, good read you again as well
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My favorite line is the one about bending all the trees backwards. It strikes me that the poem reads just as well–if differently!–without the final troika. maybe that’s just me liking the idea of ending with a fragment that could be completed a million different ways, or maybe the notion godhood or plurality intimidate me. In any event, I love this poem, your style, and every glorious word you write.
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thank you shay, you’re got such a keen eye, glad you liked that line
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What Shay said ❤
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Oh Phillip, this poem in all it’s pondering and thoughts of love and life is a true masterpiece!!
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thank you carrie, so glad you liked
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Thisis glorious – I am enchanted by the idea that we walk through a world of love, never alone. Just beautiful. The image of the trees being bent backward is stunning.
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Amazing. I was starting to quote more and more of it, then just had to admit every line is stunning. Agree with Shay about the trees blown back. The most excellent of many most excellent lines.
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thank you sir, i’m that you liked this one, it practically wrote itself and i just kind of watched
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Ah those are so great when they come.
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Love all the possibilities, that love cannot be specifically defined as one thing or another. -throwing open the doors to our minds to consider all it could entail. Fabulous.l
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thank you, so glad you enjoyed this
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The biggest word in love and life…if. You use it to paint an entire landscape where the heart has wings and the mind will for once let it fly, let it be the vector and vehicle, where it is an essential, organic part of the whole of everything, and as such, by definition, we can never be separated from it. This one has wings indeed, philip. Beautiful writing.
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thank you joy, that means a lot to me, this one is kind of special to me, at this particular moment anyway, i hope it has wings anyway.
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This is so utterly beautiful, Phillip. It made my heart swell wide open. You’ve encapsulated what could not be encapsulated so remarkably. Loved every line but these images particularly:
“if love crawls out of the mud and becomes amphibian”
“if love is in the jetstream
and it breathes and speaks and bends all the trees backwards
if love is all the wind and all the rain and all the sun
and everything that burns in this world and the next
and the next, and the next
if love is
then we walk like gods within it
together everywhere
as walking gods will never walk alone”
I am so moved by the whole thing. Thank you for this, Phillip. I needed to read it today ❤
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“I needed to read it today” i completely understand, i really needed to write it, i was in a bit of a dark place and needed a rope to climb out of it. thank you sunra. i’m a little behind on my reading, i’ll be by soon.
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If love is everything you share in poetry form … I am not ready to relinquish even an ounce of it. Ever. And I believe it is. A lovely write!!!!
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ah, thank you helen, so good to hear from you, i’ve been taking lots of long breaks this summer, and i’ve missed these chats… i’ll be looking for your poems
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Love is so much.. It’s tactile, ethereal, spiritual, practical, foolish….Oh my your poem has me immersed in all love is and can be. Beautiful!
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thank you susie, i’m glad you enjoyed this
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