“Love Is” by Danil Rudoy is a four-line poem from Love Is Poetry. A declaration of growing love receives an answer that preserves the affection and abruptly brings the conversation back to dinner.
Love Is
“My love is growing day by day;
Does yours keep up, sir sinner?”
“How could it not? And, by the way:
What do we have for dinner?”
2012
Publication
“Love Is” appears in Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life, in The Marriage Market.
The comic turn
The first couplet establishes a mock-solemn exchange about love and sin. The answering couplet keeps the rhyme while moving immediately to dinner, allowing domestic appetite and romantic feeling to occupy the same tiny frame.
Related reading
Continue with Eternal, Poetry by Danil Rudoy, Love Poems by Danil Rudoy, and Rhyming Poetry.
Text and citation
Copyright © Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author’s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.