Startled by Love 2021: Gabriel's Horn Anthology, #3

By Laura Vosika and Jennifer Anne F. Messing

Startled by LOVE brings you a collection of talented and accomplished poets, established, emerging, and new, in our third annual anthology of all new poetry in traditional forms.

Grab a cup of tea or glass of wine and enjoy our verses on the many faces of love--romantic love, familial love, love lost, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gabriel's Horn
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781938990724

Book preview

Other Books by Gabriel’s Horn:

Tales of the Strange

Children’s Books

Christian Fiction

Inspirational

Time-Travel

Adventure

Mysteries

Memoir

Thriller

Fiction

Horror

Poetry

Music

... and more

LOVE IS...

Love

Is Life

Fills our souls

With joy and light

Peace

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Love

Is pain

Tears our hearts

With loss and sorrow

Grief

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Love

is peace

It comes around

It heals all wounds

Eternity

EROS – ROMANTIC LOVE

Romantic Love

under a tree

dapples of moonlight

first kiss

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our initials

on the old tree trunk

welcome shade

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tube squeezed

from the middle

another anniversary

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sunset

the taste of blush

on your lips

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new journey

your shadow blends with mine

widower

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– Ronald K. Craig

haiku and senryu

Spellbound

After Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's In Bed The Kiss

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The eventide is woeless. As though scared

of being divorced from each other, stirred

and shaken by whispers of love declared,

her kiss shared never been more like a bird

of summer, never more tender in shades

of red and yellow, subdued by grey, green

and blue, coupling doves, guides Venus’ cascades

away from the thief of time. Now her queen

of endearment, stripped bare of all glamour

and glitz, tangled in the nightfall's embrace

brushes off Adam and Eve's anchored grammar

of rapture, her lips, amaranthine grace.

No one knows how private lips, a wildfire,

discharge the most celebrated desire.

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– Wuttipol Khirin

sonnet

Love is a Petal

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Love is a petal

Precarious and fragile

Go soft...be gentle

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– Annette Moore

Looks

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Deers dream in your eyes.

You knew well. Your gleaming gaze

Caressed pink gazelles

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– Ernie Brill

To My Lady Fair

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The sun rises and my heart sings,

To my love in her castle Fair,

My voice rises in this Hall of Kings,

To a level and tenor I can only dare,

I will join together with golden rings,

Our hands in marriage, my feelings bare,

Our lives together on eagle's wings,

In her eyes, I'm lost in stares.

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The sun sets and my heart is fine,

The horses whinny, the gloaming settles,

At her castle table we're set to dine,

With truffles rare and steaming kettles,

Through the mist, I know she's mine,

All flowers bend near, as she walks in petals.

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– C. R. Powell

Love’s Light

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Love’s light

Shines from our eyes

Illuminates soul mates

Safe keepers of each other’s dreams

Complete

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– Jackie Anderson

cinquain

Call of the Wild

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My love for thee

Cannot compare

With throngs of birds

Which fill the air

With thunder clapping

Everywhere.

With waters rushing

Here and there.

But if all the world were

Silenced.

I could still find thee

By the purest song of love

Within

Your

Heart.

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– Cindi Maciolek

Harp Of Psithurism

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The downpour is over, my heart

We do not need an umbrella anymore

Neither do we need any covers

Today, it is raining flowers

From the blue blue sky

Roses, sweet jasmine and dahlias

Fresh blooms of spring

Smiling in wonder glee

just for the two of us, only

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This is our moment, hurry up my sweet

We must not waste time