Little Love

I am competing this weekend in Poetry Interpretation, so I thought I might write about my poem that I won second in the state with. The poem is Little Love and it is a complex poem that consists of many different perspectives on the emotion love. Love is silent, yet sweet and powerful through the song and acts of nature. First it depicts love in nature, then goes to a scottish guy loving his country, and then an Arabian snake charmer who falls in love with his snake. The third perspective is a Desperate Housewife who is in love with apples, but not the actual apple...more like the gift and the idea of the creation of the apple (if that even makes sense). The fourth view point is a little girl falling in love with a rose and how memories are like roses and soon pedal by pedal they will fade away. Finally, the fifth perspective is how the person writting the poem hears a little bird whistling a song and how this song means he or she is in love...the poem takes the individual's emotion and takes it to a court room and basically describes, "I know its love, I will swear it to a fat bumbling shopworn court clerk, and sign my name, it is love." It is such a lovely, delightful poem that actually makes my smile...because obliviously Mr. King thinks I don't have a smile. So here is my question, What is love?