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Title: This new love
Author: Cathy Page
Date Submitted: 8/19/2008
Email: quixotic@iinet.net.au

 
Poem: New love is an exchange, one way of life for another.
I am finding my breath catching with pleasure
just pottering round the house,
dusting the mirror or crunching on apples.
I practise loving by treating myself kindly,
taking time to find out what I treasure.
I breathe the freshening air through my window
smelling like happiness.
I am tasting everything anew enjoying
its new sweetness.
I am amazed by the way I fit with myself,
imperfections are trivial, this new love delights me.
I move sensitively beside myself learning new ways,
delicately holding my heart in my cupped hands.
Everything here speaks of a dedication ceremony:
incense, books of poems, flowers and a lit candle.
Somewhere behind me is the sighing ghost from my past
but it cannot reach me now
when I am being borne again
with a smile on my face.
I am fully present here in this moment.
I examine my hands, familiar and softly wrinked
like crepe, hands for holding a baby
or ready to caress a new lover.
I am like a matured cheese and a bottle of aged wine.
I am the dappled sun on the grapevine.
I sit here with this feast before me
excitedly courting someone I have always,
but only just,
known....