Speaking of Love

The new issue of the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, called "The Science of Love," was waiting on my email when we got back from New York:

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/contents.html

I read every single poem, and collectively, they inspired me to write this one:


All These Love Poems

I don’t get them

Really,

What’s so hard about it?

What’s so complicated?

Why all this aching, this longing, this un-understanding….?



Love isn’t something you feel,

After all,

It’s something you do.

Again and again and again

Or decide to stop.


P.E. Ortman