We’ll Love more Persons, Places,
And Things with Deeper and more
Diverse Feelings than we know now²
A True Revolutionary is guided by Love³
The capacity for Love, in its First Youth,
Embraces not only Both Sexes, but All and
Everything, Sensuous & Spiritual – it endows
All things with a spell of Love & fairy-like Ease
Of Transformation such as comes Again Only to
A Chosen few and to Poets – and to them Rarely⁴
What is Love? – To feel the Presence of the One
Life Deep within yourself and within All Creatures⁵
Write me as one that Loves All my Fellow Humans⁶
I Love All and All Love me – and that is the Secret⁷
That ye Love one Another – as I have Loved you⁸
In some not too distant future, the Radiant Stars
Of Love and Brotherhood – will shine over our
Great nation with all their Scintillating Beauty⁹
What if the Mightiest word is Love? Love
Beyond Marital, Filial, National – Love
That casts a Widening pool of Light¹⁰
¹ Lord Tennyson, Come into the Garden, Maud
² Philip Whalen, Minor Moralia
³ Ernesto “Ché” Guevara tr. original, Message to the Tricontinental
⁴ Hermann Hesse tr. Basil Creighton, Steppenwolf
⁵ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
⁶ Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem
⁷ Ursula K. Le Guin, Coming of Age in Karhide
⁸ John 13:34 (King James)
⁹ Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
¹⁰ Elizabeth Alexander, Praise Song for the Day