Today I enjoyed a circle of women writers, which has gathered for several months. I thank each person for sharing creativity, honesty, and good old fashioned word craft. We begin meetings with a writing prompt, and this week’s starter was based on our birth date. Mine read “These are the things women know” about love, which inspired the title of this poem.
What Women Know
Women know love is a sensation and intention,
a wave of truth with splashing doubts.
We know love is not enough
but bittersweet and aftertaste-hot.
Love is not the clay nor the hands but the potter’s wheel
molding our days and nights into lifetimes.
Love is water,
basic to every organic thing
and shape-shifting between extremes.
Women know love beyond rationality,
an intuition of spirit, mind, and flesh.
We know love is not a thing but being.
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Post updated: 28 January 2009.
What Women Know by Melissa Dey Hasbrook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
