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Introduction
Arguably the strongest of all human emotions is love. A most
gentle feeling with a most awesome power and multifarious in
manifestation. The poems found in this sub-section and the
"Endearments" section celebrate the variant of it that
exists between a man and a woman the power of which the great
king Solomon compared to that of death. (Songs.8: 6) Someone
else identified by the Scriptures as Agur the son of Jakeh also
lent his voice by describing its motions as enigmatic.(Prov.30:
1,18,19) It is no wonder then that love is, at the same time,
both the least understood and the most misunderstood human
emotion.
Those
who know me from afar, especially those who know my feelings
about singleness - celibacy, may find it difficult to reconcile these works
with my personality, and I must admit as well that it scarcely
fits. However, they truly are my works, in fact, my first works
in the voyage into poetry, and were written with all
wholesomeness and as much of the purity of heart that I
know. As
I intimated in my poetry introduction page
things that had to do with the expression of love between
opposite sex were much of a taboo to me for some of the reasons
already mentioned on the page. And by the time my speech was
loosed it seemed just appropriate that the freedom and liberty should
begin from my very place of bondage enslavement and fear. Madrigals
are short poems of love, and through these
poems I aim to demonstrate that love can be celebrated and shared,
without filthiness of speech, vulgarity, or obscenity as now
seems synonymous with it in our world; and that in spite of the
unhealthy associations of terrible and great immoralities with
it that it is not ungodly or godless to express this wonderful
divinely enabled emotional capacity of the human heart. Love is
pure, love is true, love is beautiful. I
invite you to step into the waters without muddling it. Have a
wholesome experience.
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