What Is Love?
What is love?
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It is every love song you have ever heard wrapped in silver
It is the taste of amber fire on your tongue
It is a silken sheet both smooth and strong linking your hands
It is dancing down the beach with waves and sweat melting and mixing
It is being close without being cloying
It is placing your head on their chest and hearing your own heartbeat
It is a field of amaranth and simbelmynë
It is a woven song of starlight and dewdrops
It is made of butterflies caught in a prism of light
It is elusive incense smoke and twice as potent
It is a forest of sakura formed from snow
It is a golden rose with petals of wind-cast sand
It is innocence reflected with a shine of hope
It is seeing a world in a river stone’s smile
It is when dreams mirror reality until both intermingle
It is a multitude of paradoxes both tantalizing and frustrating
It is blood and tears and trust
It is not wanting to live when they have died
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Is that love?
No?
Then perhaps I speak only nonsense…
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By Hikari Katana
(Read more of Hikari Katana’s works at her Deviant Art Page)
I always absolutely love the artwork that accompanies these pieces. They are gorgeous and well-chosen every time.
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Yay! I’m glad you like our artwork picks! I usually just go on google images scouring binges, save loads of stuff in picture folders on my computer, and then go back later and select that which is appropriate. For this one, though, I did go on an extra special hunt, as your poem had a lot of depth and complexity, and I didn’t want to stick up something to “fruity”, as it were! Also, I wanted to give it at least a hint of an Asian flavor, so I looked up Asian fantasy art, and this is one of the pieces that came up! Again, really enjoyed the mastery of language used to weave together this poem. Its delicate as well as potent, and the Asian cultural feel fits the feel of quiet strength perfectly.
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Nice poem. It artfully describes the ideal sort of love that two people ought to share together as a couple, and makes a lot of sense.
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