One More Love Poem

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I’ll count all my days,
even the nine months of days
before I was born, to say
this exponential, growing “I love you.”
From “One More Love Poem,” by Dunya Mikhail

This poem makes me think about creative love — the love it takes give birth to an idea, a work of art, a piece of music, a poem. Creative love grows, too. Caring, tending, holding, praying. Light, food, water, air. The world is changed by creative love, too.

Poems about creative love sound different. They are dreams, lyrics, melodies, and images. They are the root and the bud. They are