Le Voyage Magnifique

Homemade Love

Life is fun when we first heat homemade love
and treasured when we complete homemade love.

I traveled down a dusty gravel road
in ragtop Chevy to meet homemade love.

Sunday supper with ham and collard greens
means we are about to eat homemade love.

The smell of apple pie in the oven
proves there is nothing like sweet homemade love.

Dancing in the kitchen with our shoes off
soon impels us to repeat homemade love.

No matter what trouble may come our way,
there's no way it can defeat homemade love.

If our broken spirit requires repair,
it must be time to reheat homemade love.

In maternity ward nine months later,
we are delighted to greet homemade love.

When ill winds threaten the spring in our step,
we simply add discreet homemade love.

The bond we have cannot be bought from store,
so we will never deplete homemade love.

Notes on the Ghazal form of poetry ▼

The Ghazal is an ancient Arabic verse form constructed in five or more couplets (two-line stanzas), each capable of standing on its own, with a specific pattern of rhyme and repetition, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/ghazal.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/ghazal

https://poets.org/glossary/ghazal