The Center Post - Spring 2010

Eight Love Poems

By Sparrow

Question

Can two nations
fall in love?

Sparrow’s Eight Love Poems ran in The Sun in June, 2007.

Love

Love is the first word
’t say to everyone.

A Phrase One Never Hears

“My lover and I are doing our taxes.”

Sunlight

Sunlight
loves to fall
on a bed.

Two Professors

When two professors
fall in love,
their students rejoice.

Named

We are all named
out of love — for
an uncle, a cousin,
a dead violinist.

Often we forget

the love in our names.

The Moon

The moon loves
snow, because
it reflects.

Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
do not
mention love.


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