Love Song

Here it is Valentine's Day and I thought of one of my favorite poets.  So instead of writing something of my own I will post his love song.

The heart is a small watercolor I whipped off in celebration of the day.  The heart is a kind of a cliche' but I thought, that's alright for it is Valentine's Day after all. 

The poetry is not sentimental or cliche'.  It is, in my opinion, artful.  I suggest reading it aloud then decide what is being expressed.  Is it  humor, sadness, eroticism or what?

Love Song

I lie here thinking of you:--- the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves, smears with saffron the horned branches that lean heavily against a smooth purple sky!   There is no light only a honey-thick stain that drips from leaf to leaf and limb to limb spoiling the colors of the whole world-  you far off there under the wine-red selvage of the west! -William Carlos Williams-