Valentine Love Poetry: Syntax

Syntax

I want to call you thou, the sound

of the shape of the start

of a kiss - like this, thou –

and to say, after, I love,

thou, I love, thou I love, not

I love you.

Because I so do –

As we say now – I want to say

thee, I adore thee,

and to know I n my lips

The syntax of love resides,

and to gaze in thine eyes.

Love’s language starts, stops, starts;

The right words flowing or clotting in the heart.

By Caroline Duffy from Love Poems

Photograph courtesy of Fanni Williams