I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such
although I liked a few folk pretty well
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch
for brave men died and empires rose and fell
for love, girls follow boys to foreign lands
and men have followed women into hell
In plays and poems someone understands
there’s something makes us more than blood and bone
And more than biological demands for me love’s like the wind unseen, unknown
I see the trees are bending where it’s been
I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown
I really don’t know what I love you means
I think it means don’t leave me here alone
One of my favorite current love poems. It’s so wonderfully realistic and I love the way it opens in such a traditional way yet diverts into a fresh, new kind of understanding of the idea of love. I’m a huge fan of Gaiman’s poetry, more so than anything else of his writing.
The Amber of the Moment 
I like Neil’s take on love expressed here. Thank you for sharing it. Sometimes I can’t read his poetry because it gets too close to how I think, and that hits my emotions a little too hard. Ouch! 😉
I would agree with you! I’ve read American Gods and the first couple volumes of ‘The Sandman’ comic series and my copies are full of highlighted lines and dog-eared pages. If you like him, you really should check out Terry Pratchett. He’s not as dark as Gaiman, but he hits just as hard with a laugh as Gaiman does with fear.
Or check out Neil and Terry together with “Good Omens” 🙂
One of my favorite novels of all time 😀
I never even knew Gaiman wrote poetry! Well, you learn something every day and today I learned something that makes me happy in learning that he does… Thanks Amber.
No problem! I didn’t know he did either until I was looking up something regarding the Sandman series (I think I was looking up something along the lines of all the volumes he’s published?) and this little beauty popped up, and I have adored it ever sense!