Love in Love — A 2021 Special Valentine Poetry Collection

LOVE IN LOVE (A 2021 Special Valentine Poetry Collection) 

  

Editor’s Note:  

In the word of Robert Frost, we love the things we love for what they are.  

In consummate concordance with this age-long apothegm, a group of poets decided to give the 2021 Valentine Day a poetic essence, literarily out of their love for what it is.  

Exploring the theme of Love, these eight poets and poetry lovers, in pursuance of their ardency, lent their voices, by donating stanzas of poetic condiments, which congealed into a concise masterpiece, entitled “Love in Love” 

In its third edition now, this Special Valentine Poetry Collection which started in 2019 contains these romantic lines of epopees by these muses and inamoratos. 

Compiled and edited by Izunna Okafor, this (though very concise) collection also holds the message and unfold the expressions of these gallant poets to and for the world, the lovers and the Love itself, as the 2021 Valentine Day stages.  

They write:  

Pure as crystal 

Mature and unskeptical

 Love beyond love 

Love in love  

And like a molten gold 

My love oozes warmth 

Even in the cold we are 

Love in love!   

Life they say is a proverb 

Master this verb, it’s an action 

Echo in echo out 

Love is a lieutenant   

Love is also natural 

It comes from any direction 

Waters the hearted  

Renders the powerful powerless 

Love in love  

Love is life 

In its season, all thrive 

When it seizes, there’s strive 

Love is when you lend a helping hand  

Like Italian fine wine 

You taste sweeter with age 

I look at you, and with praise 

My heart is filled  

Grateful to the Great Universe for the gift of you 

Soothing gaze of the moon…you 

Fresh like the morning dew 

Soft work, this, Love in Love is!   

Hence on this lonely path 

May we cling softly to ourselves 

And make peaceful vow 

Of everlasting bliss  

May the rain and sun 

Water & shine on this garden of love 

Gently, as it grows like a nation  

When we sing of love…  

we sing of a mother and her child 

we sing of a book and its reader 

we sing of a child and his toy; 

we sing of God and mankind 

We sing of many things that have feelings, 

we sing of hearts and prayers,

 flowers, wishes, Aspirations and Lovers… 

Because love has a different name to different people, 

But it goes with the same language everywhere.  

Love in love 

White, red, green, colourless… 

Its colours and symbols 

Love in Love  

Love afresh, love in the air 

Love above, love in the under 

Love beyond love 

Love in Love.    

Contributors: Izunna Okafor Udo Okoronkwo-chukwu Ibiam Ude Ufiem Nnadiekwe Chinweike Divine Ogonna O’star Eze Nwokeabia Ifeanyi John John Chizoba Vincent  

 (Compiled and Edited by Izunna Okafor)