Glory-glimpse...

 The final two-for-Tuesday prompt in April @Poetics Aside poem-a-day challenge is always: 

Write a love poem. Write an anti-love poem

Love roars through us like thunder; beauty and beast undeterred

It steals our breath with wonder and the hunger of mere word

It makes us happy, oh so happy, whispered from the heart

It makes us sad, so sad when we are far, too far apart

Love runs through us like roses; fragile petal loveliness

It pricks us to the quick with thorns of selfish thoughtlessness

It fills our gaze with sheer amazement; spills in laughter-gold

It startles us with sorrow when its vim turns dim and cold

Love slips through us; a smile-sigh-sacrifice miracle wrought

A ripple of redemption for all things that life is not

The very mention of its gift delights dust’s mortal clod

And makes us humbly thankful for its glory-glimpse of God

© Janet Martin