Love and Poetry ( reviewed)

LOVE IS the essence of all existence
central to all humanity
anywhere

I exhort you all
read some of love
and
romantic poems
and
smilingly see

how love flows like a river
from one to another
like it does to the sea

but mistake it not for sex
did you not love your mother
sister daughter aunt and cousin
if not
then you must learn
first, the spelling of love

meaning will come thereafter

read
MOM'S SMILES
and
imagine, what love can be
fifty years down memories lane

come
Abide
will ye