Day 107: Explanations of Love

Carl Sandburg is one of my favourite poets. I love his simple turn of phrase, complete with arduous meaning. 

Like here, where he tackles love - 'there is a look of eyes fierce as a big Bethlehem open hearth furnace...there is a pair of shoes love wears and the coming is a mystery.' 

Explanations of Love - Carl Sandburg

There is a place where love begins and a place
where love ends.

There is a touch of two hands that foils all dictionaries.

There is a look of eyes fierce as a big Bethlehem open hearth
furnace or a little green-fire acetylene torch.

There are single careless bywords portentous as a
big bend in the Mississippi River.

Hands, eyes, bywords--out of these love makes
battlegrounds and workshops.

There is a pair of shoes love wears and the coming
is a mystery.

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it
is never written till long afterward.

There are explanations of love in all languages
and not one found wiser than this:

There is a place where love begins and a place
where love ends--and love asks nothing.