We Love Life

Here is another poem inspired by the Arvon course on writing lyrical poetry that I went to a couple of weeks ago. This was from a short writing exercise at a seminar led by Mimi Khalvati. It's very closely modelled on a poem by Mahmood Darwish. 

We Love Life

(after Mahmoud Darwish)

We love life whenever we can
We listen to each other’s thoughts
           and lend each other stories from the past 
                   and weave nets to catch the future
We love life whenever we can
We open the back door for the sun to call us out
             to meet with the daisies as they sparkle in the long grass
We lean out of the window and tell the moon
             to fetch night hawks to chase away bad dreams
We draw pictures with cameras and take photographs 
              with paint-brushes when words fail us
We love life whenever we can
We lie as close as cats in bed. 
               We send our limbs to find each other
                        and we nest in each other
                             and lie cheek on breast and breast on cheek
We love life whenever we can.


© Janice Windle