Like Lichen
Like Lichen
LIke lichen is like an ear is like
some leaves
is how I love you–it’s just the shape
nature makes in me.
Like a fern is like a fir, like any tree truly,
like the dendrites that bring feeling
to a hand or body,
like the fingers of that hand, the limbs
of that body–
a shape nature makes–
like a nut, an egg,
like a planet, a seed, a heart–
like a riverbed or tributary,
like roots, like lightning,
like the capillaries that traverse
even stone–
the shape nature makes in me,
the love for you.
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A love poem for Thanksgiving and my prompt on With Real Toads. Check out my most recent book if you have a chance. Momoir, Maybe, available on Amazon. (Or a host of children’s books.)
And many thanks!
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November 22, 2018 at 1:50 pm
I almost wrote about nature, too. I love all of the references in your beautiful poem, and how each shape is the shape of love. Wonderful.
November 23, 2018 at 12:32 am
Yes, seeing the beauty in all of creation is a most satisfying thing. If only we could all remember to look after it.
November 23, 2018 at 3:48 am
Your list of Mother Nature’s treasures likened to ‘your’ love seens very unique to me, K. I am used to the moon, the stars, the incessant work of the tides, or other monumental works. But these are smallish and subtile. So I read being pleasantly surprised by the progression as I passed by.
Thank you for the nice prompt. Though not the caliber or intensity of the traditional love story I had to write of my daughter and wife getting Toto. That idea came after seeing your adorable picture of the little girl holding her dog.
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November 23, 2018 at 10:15 am
A lovely poem, nature and love, the poet can’t miss!
November 23, 2018 at 12:54 pm
is how I love you–it’s just the shape
nature makes in me.
These lines alone are worth the wait for your poetry, Karin. This is so touching and beautiful.
November 23, 2018 at 5:30 pm
Thanks so much, Kerry. I have been so enjoying your poems on Instagram. K,
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November 23, 2018 at 2:28 pm
beautiful, Karin ~
November 23, 2018 at 4:03 pm
I love how you use the similes stacked to come to the core of the love… the shapes, the emotions… I felt like open up a Russian doll with the layers of nature similes and finding a gem of love inside… so very cool.
November 23, 2018 at 5:29 pm
Thanks so much, Bjorn. Loved the rose. K.
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November 24, 2018 at 7:19 am
Lucky the person who knows deep inside he/she is shaped by nature. This is a lovely write, Karin.
November 24, 2018 at 9:58 am
Just love this, Karin. Love the rhythm and how this sounds and feels. Vintage Karin, like Kerry said, worth waiting for.
Congrats on your new book and I have to catch up on your collection!! Much love to you. Marian
November 25, 2018 at 6:58 am
Similes yielding smiles like few I have known. This is a wonderful little poem–all the ways love is what nature does.
November 25, 2018 at 8:06 am
Ha. Thanks so much, Brendan. k.
November 25, 2018 at 11:08 pm
“is how I love you–it’s just the shape
nature makes in me.”
I love everything about this. The common-sense, self-evident shape of your love… lovely.