Attempt to describe the mystery of Love

Love is an undefined piece on a board

So vast - edges beyond our conception;

Bestowed equally to peasant or Lord;

Revered alike upon reception. 

Love alters not with impediments, for 

Our mortal coils are beneath the divine, 

The intangible, the word of God; Nor

Is it Time's fool, but matures like fine wine. 

Tempests of the emotional realm fail

To bereave our sea of tranquility;

Instead, prevailing winds catch in our sail -

Forging onward, together, you and me. 

Pure of purpose and clear of mortal taints;

In the blank canvas of life, Love's the paints. 

Reviews

[Richard🖌]

Hi, Ross! : )
I hope you've been doing well, My Friend … sorry it took me so long to get here, but my plate stays quite full these days.
I am no expert on love, but I really enjoyed your definition of it herein; as-well, the message of understanding and wisdom wound throughout the easy flow of your words.
Your spot-on rhymes are excellent; and, though the lines are not even, you've managed to make them flow, and this is not always a simple result to attain.
Quite the brilliant piece to catch and spur our imaginations and thoughts … Shakespearean-like, deeply felt and rendered.
I most gratefully thank you for sharing the deft touch of your keen, burgeoning skills! ⁓ Richard

[R.M.C]

Thank you for your kind and encouraging words, Richard, like always. Thank you even more so for the extra information you've sent me regarding the correct composition of a true (Shakespeare) Sonnet; I'm certainly reading it and trying to better myself... though I fear it may be long in the coming before I'm at the level at which I can compose my own. And thank you for bringing to me attention that my lines are uneven - in my rush I seem to have made a few mistakes with the syllables in certain words - I'll be sure to go through and try to correct this. Thanks again. Ross.

[Lydia Shutter]

And what a palette of color love employs! A very different sort of love poem. Is love purely kismet? Are people destined to meet and fall in love? Perhaps that is true. In any case, certainly thought provoking. Your choice of vocabulary is stellar. I read your profile and see you are a teenager. If this is your style at such a young age, you have great potential. I enjoyed this poem. Lydi**

[R.M.C]

Thank you Lydi for your kind words. I've never before learnt much about the actual composition of poems - I'm one of many Ignorant readers who just like reading them - but I'm currently learning (with great thanks to Richard) and hope to improve in all means as time goes by. Hopefully I will compose poems in the future that you and others will enjoy even more. Thanks again for reading by poem, Ross.