Love Is A Shawl with Holes

PAD Challenge day 20;

For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

Write a love poem and/or...

Write an anti-love poem.

Love is far more 

than daisy-lore

of love me-love-me-not

It runs us through 

with bronze and blue

that weathered years allot 

Love is the stuff

of fist-a-cuff

and kiss me sweet and slow

The grit and grin

through thick and thin

of hold and letting go

A tango, dear

of smile and tear

A ballad, dissonant

It's tea-and-toast'

Making the most

of each precious moment

It is a hug

a push-and-tug

together, not apart

A sacred pact

twixt faith and fact

not for the faint of heart

It's what-a-mess

and happiness

mysteriously entwined

It is a vow

of curtsy-bow

with Other first in mind

A breath of spring,

The weathering

of winter's wildest storm

But best of all

Love is a shawl

with holes, yet keeps us warm

Janet Martin