Title: love | forgiveness | hatred

Title: love | forgiveness | hatred

1.
Hatred stirs 
up strife, 
But love covers 
all offenses.
Yes love, 
the elixir of life
Erases all 
pretenses.
2.
What every 
wise woman knows
Is that she 
is a Rose 
of Sharon, 
A lily of 
the valley
Dancing along 
life's narrow alley; 
A lily among 
the brambles.
3.
Her desire 
as a maiden 
Is tender, 
Never heavy laden.
4.
Bathed in fragrance
is where 
she once stood.
As an apple tree 
Amidst all the
saps of wood.
5.
Her life's 
Like a breeze
Of cool fresh air,
Fostering only good.
6.
O north wind awake
For deliverance sake
And come,
Right now 
to follow, 
the beetles hum.
7.
O South wind, 
Grant her pardon.
And blow upon
Her scented garden. 
8.
That its sweet 
fragrance may
Waft abroad, 
through nature's 
perfect sum.
9.
Let thy beloved 
come with, 
tantalizing play
this very day -
To that garden 
and her, 
choicest fruits 
to eat 
10.
Plucking ripe 
clusters,
From such 
tender shoots;
Of blackberry 
and beet.
11.
Arise, my love 
My sweet one,
And come away.
Let the Will
of God be done, 
Fair play.
For there is,
No other way.
12.
Like a flash 
of vision,
From the soul 
At dawn,
The winter 
is now past,
At last, 
the rain is gone.
13.
Bright flowers
Appear over all
the earth; 
Breathtaking and 
given to birth.
14.
Love is neither 
blind nor dumb, 
The time 
of singing has
finally come.
15.
Thus we can 
now rejoice,
That the 
heroic voice, 
Of the turtledove 
Is heard in 
all our land.
16.
Tonight we might
gently understand,
Why the fig tree 
Puts forth, 
its figs, 
And the vines 
in blossom, 
Give forth 
dazzling fragrance. 
17.
Arise, my love,
My fair one...
And come away,
To join me in
This wondrous 
dance.
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Wisdom Poetry by Rev.Bola A
(copyright: 21.8.12 -ARR)