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What Is Love Poetry contest entry

 
                                                     A whitened web 
                                                  of lace and lattice 
                            enshrouds your face
that oval 
                       of sable skin is the graceful ideal 
                                              of a swirling nebula
               You are my
beloved, called forth from 
                                                      an endless echo 
                       of boundless beauty
the tableau 
that inspires all my art and compels my ardor 
                                for your piercing, ebon gaze
 
 

Author Notes
"It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain." ---Carson McCullers from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,

     

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