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Celebrate LOVE
written by: Hart Dowd
Celebrate LOVE
Love is a nod from across the room.
Love is a knowing wink.
Love is a laugh from my heart’s full bloom.
Love is a pause to think
Selflessly, wholly, of what it shares.
Threaded by man and wife,
Quietly weaning till unaware,
Love is the whole of life.
Love is an arm to support an arm.
Love wipes away every tear.
Love speaks of love with a special charm.
Love is a listening ear.
Love is the squeeze of a gentle hand
Saying what words can’t say.
Knowing such love makes one understand
God is a wiser way.
(Poem, anonymous)
The original root of LOVE: LEUBH, meant to be fond of, to care for, and to desire, which shows that love and longing have been around since the dawn of civilization.
In the northern Netherlands, the old Frisian word was, LUVE, and in Old English, the word was, LUFU. In Middle English, the spelling changed from LUFU to LOVE, and it have been LOVE ever since.
LOVE has been examined, poked at, debated, and argued and written about at great length. Perhaps three of the most discussed characteristics of love are its eternal nature, love at first sight, and its tragic side.
The eternal nature of love is expressed in the Bible, in Song of Solomon 8:7. “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”
Perhaps two of the most famous lines ever penned about love are from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s (1809-1892) long poem ‘In Memoriam’:
“Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.”
Tennyson was writing about the loss of a best friend, who was engaged to marry his sister. It took him seventeen years to finish the poem.
Another satirist, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), wrote about the undeserved pain of loving, in his popular novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, published in 1891:
“Those who are faithless know not the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love’s tragedies.”
Pens have gone dry scratching out sentiments on the tragedy of love. Many romantic couples, legendary and real, have died for love.....
Some poets, like John Dryden (1631-1700), felt it worth the sacrifice, as in these lines from ‘Conquest of Granada: Part 11:
“He who dares love, and for that love, must die.
And, knowing this, dares yet love on, am I.
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