A Love Poem

As a poet, I always felt it was wrong that it was so hard to find words that rhyme with "love" in English - especially since love is such an important theme in poetry! So I wrote a poem about it...

     A Love Poem

In English, as I'll briefly prove,
there's little that true-rhymes with love,
unless one dwells upon her glove,
or how she's gentle as a dove,
or writes unto "My Lady of...",
he'll search from Hell to Heav'n above
and not find more to rhyme with love.

     The Cultural Cause Hypothesis

Perhaps it's like the English, then,
those duty-bound, insensate men,
to let love fester in a fen
of worn clichés. Ironic, when
one thinks how love has fed the pen
of every poet, now and then,
and verse and free, from West to Zen.


1992