Poetic book - song of songs

I love poems. A personalized poems scores a higher satisfaction rate over any other gift i might receive. But too bad, this is not the era of shakespears. To get a piece of special written poem is rare and precious, even myself can't write poems! *blush*

I saw this in etsy...
A book of 6 poems handmade poetry book. Here's a note from the author:

"I started writing poems when I was nineteen. It was a hot year and a long time ago. These poems I wrote in winter. I thought of my first poem when I was walking down 15th with a sheet of stamps in my hand. I can't remember how it went. Thank you for reading."
The poems are printed on quarter sized premium bond paper and bound in a handmade hardcover book.
6 Poems, 24 Pages. It's cheap because I love you.

It was priced $4.00. Aww... i wouldn't have sell my poems that cheap (if i could write any), u know? And just as i was looking at this page, i was reminded that God reflects his poem of love to us through the bible too. I turned to Song of Songs, and so i read about it again that night. I used to have goosebumps reading through Song of Songs in my younger days, it sounds... weird and 'too romantic' to me. But things has changed ever since my relationship with God has been 'upgraded' from a role of a heavenly father or God the provider, to the lover of my soul recently. I feel such sweetness in my soul as i read through the verses. I love chapter 2 the most.

Especially Songs of song 3:2, Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

I like this 'I delight to sit in his shade', it gives me a great masculine sense of safe and protection. Now, i might not be perfectly accurate in intepreting the bible verse, but at least this is what i seriously feel about it. I hope you'll love the song of songs as much as i do, leaving you with the whole chapter 2 Song of Songs. Bible is not boring at all, you know?

Song of Solomon 2
Beloved
1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Lover
2 Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.

Beloved
3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.
5 Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
6 His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field:Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
8 Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
10 My lover spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
11 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me."

Lover
14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.

Beloved
16 My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.
17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazellen or like a young stag on the rugged hills.