* Free Verse Love Poem

* The phrase - ships that pass in the night - was coined by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882, a famous American poet and writer. This line comes from the love poem, The Theologian's Tale - in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

* I Sing the Body Electric - 1855 Walt Whitman poem about love of his fellowman.
It is also named as episode 100 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The 1962 script was written by Ray Bradbury, and became the basis for his 1969 short story of the same name.

Whitman wrote the first few lines of his poem -

I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul,

* Three Doors Down - a Mississippi rock group made famous by their song - Kryptonite
the question it's asking. It's like - if I go crazy, will you still call me Superman?

* Image - St. Elmos Fire - a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge in ionized air - blue violet in color - harmless but beautiful.

* Please listen to Frank Zappa play his supreme guitar solo: Watermelon in Easter Hay on You Tube while/after reading this poem. Thank you for reading and listening.

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