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Before Love, That Jolting Lilt Alpha List Love Poems Valentine's Day Poems Contents Home All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon Free scrapbook poems permission to use provided by the author. Before love, that jolting lilt East of roses, in perturbed darkness, Missing the eternal circumstance, Yearning still, again, for that exploratory tilt … Vainly would I fly into your heart Afire, burning, consumed, expended. Love is not an ending; nor does it end Easily: becomes pith, becomes seed, starts Needing, kneading, mid-desperation, The long climb out of loneliness, turning In hope, in anguish, in foolish expectation. No two are joined except in painful learning: Each frightened lesion closed for restoration. [contents] [home]