Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEDITATION, by PAUL GERALDY Poet's Biography First Line: One loves at first by chance Last Line: Because you have begun. Subject(s): Love; Meditation | ||||||||
One loves at first by chance, As a game, through curiosity, Through having surmised in a glance Possibility. As in yourself, at bottom, Your love is placed, If someone loves you, you love her Because you admire her taste. For the love of love a partnership In all things you affect, And before you know it, you're talking The lovers' dialect. And from saying them often, the phrases Automatically run And then, my God! you love her Because you have begun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROTHERS: 5. THE ROAD LED FROM DELIGHT by LUCILLE CLIFTON TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: A MEDITATION by LUCILLE CLIFTON BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION by DIANE DI PRIMA MEDITATION AT FIFTY YARDS, MOVING TARGET by RITA DOVE ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION by BOB HICOK THE CRYSTAL GAZER by SARA TEASDALE MIRROR MEDITATION by ANNE WALDMAN TAN TIEN by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE |
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