Large Love #poetry and prose

Large love ….Jude Itakali writes an ode to September.

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art by Anita Zotkina

Dawn rises and yawns with lingering memories of dusk. It dallies upon horizons, enchanted by the twilit union of night and day. It savours this forbidden moment of reckless love. A moment worth everything, and more.
I too, cling to the secret thoughts beneath my clouded sheets. For today, the wind changes:

September
the Monsoons return
love’s reply

Upon the endless ocean, winds be trapped by giant waves, winds be dragged to chartless depths, winds be weighed by lonely despair. But the monsoon is a wind of hope. It carries dreams, and brings back love.

Nile-water lillies
how gain you coral’s favour
and ocean wishes
save for an aquatic kiss
drifts of maritime romance

I wake this morning with a most unreasonable desire; to love a LARGE Love, an encompassing love.
I wake upon this thresh of September with a most devastating hope; to feel again…

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