Poetry

The Way You Make Love

The way you make love

is the way God will be with you.

*This is Rumi’s variation on the golden rule.

Love marks calendar

three hundred sixty-five days

to stay in top shape.

Love is artistic

enjoys painting sunrises

nurturing heartstrings.

God’s enduring love

pushes back devastation

for another day.

Love knows how time flies

then slows down to let you catch
up, and enjoy it.

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Cornelia DeDona

Author/Photographer, and native New Yorker, Cornelia is currently a Member-At-Large of The National League Of American Pen Women. Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii for thirty-six years. She makes her home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. Her poems and photography are published in print, online and Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013). In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French." In October 2015 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women’s Vinnie Ream contest was awarded the 3rd place in their inaugural multi-discipline category. View all posts by Cornelia DeDona