Love in Plain Sight – a poem by Marjorie Moorhead

Love in Plain Sight


Are we entering a dark cave? If so, let's step in together. 
You be my candle; I’ll be yours. We will generate warmth, 
follow light we make for each other. 
Let any darkness bring us closer.

Snow, a cold blanket, can sparkle once fallen. 
It just needs to be open, in conversation with sun 
or a full moon and stars.  
Let love be revealed. Let's welcome the magical, 
have faith in mystery. Not be diminished by misery—
it is just a segment of this journey.

Start with incantation; like a bird, sing it sweetly:
I want to find the love in front of me.
 

Marjorie Moorhead is author of poetry books Into the Thrum (2025), What I Ask (2024) and Every Small Breeze (2023), chapbooks In My Locket (2024), Survival:Trees, Tides, Song (2019) and Survival Part 2 Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (2020). Her poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed Literary, Moist Poetry Journal, Bloodroot Literary, Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Poeming Pigeon, Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast, Touchstone, others, and 20 anthologies to date, including The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews, ed.). Marjorie lives with her family and writes from a river valley at the NH/ VT border.