Love is poetry

In the second workshop we looked at Sarojini Naidu’s ‘An Indian Lovesong’. Here we explored love and gentleness and looked the complex relationship depicted in the poem. 

Unrequited Love

by Max Levene

I watch thee as thou pass by
thy lock of raven black hair that bounst softly with each movement sits continually on thou forehead
twinkling of blue as the sun lightings up thy eyes as they
 peer out into the time to come
I dream of being close, to smell the sweat of skin that covers thee from head to toe

These feeling are not for anyone to admit
to want and desire thee
I have been told tis misguided
How can thou reject the law of nature?
Tis written clear, spoken thus strong

My heart beats deepen come to be faster as thee near
I am afeard to reveal the joy thus bring
What tis this doth take place to me a fluttering in my gut
dizzy eyed a rushing throughout
sleeping in the blood
too much to bare

How long before I bald for no more drawn-out to comprise this love
Thou are unaware of my concealed passion
A disguise pluck out of my heart 
to the world I cannot partake.

Tis a secret untold