Writing About Love
I know I’ve shared this before, about the time I was asked for a ‘Love Poem’. With all the poems I’d written… and poetry books I’ve published, I just knew I had something lovey-dovey in my stash. I was sure of it… until I got to searching and couldn’t find an iota of anything remotely resembling the love I thought was being sought. “Well, just give us something,” was what ended up happening. So I sent a few poems, (in my mind) as polar opposite to love as light is to night. The incident however, did nudge me to really think about writing about love. After all, I’m a real sucker for them HEAs. And R&B LOVE ballads? Oh my goodness!!! I can lay beneath some ‘Adore’…and ‘Before I Let You Go’ …and ‘Mr. Too Damn Good’…and so, so many others, OVER and OVER, repeatedly, all night long. But writing the love stuff? I've tried and it is a struggle. Yet, here’s the thing! That poem I turned over, well I’ll be darn if months... maybe a year or two passed... when I happened to be watching a
