Ross Knapp’s most recent poem to appear here was “Writer’s Circadian Rhythm” (October 2016)

On Love
By Ross Knapp

Yes, another trite Tennysonian poem
An ancient Victorian stereotype

The dervish whirling word of love
But more than a word or concept

A burning on the pulse, a mystical yearning
A primal drive perhaps yet there seems to be something else,

Something there in the essence that just makes sense,
Accepting abuse if it lifts life’s lonely confusion