I just love this and congrats on your win liz and a deserved one...!!
The way you have involved your passion of love with nature is truly amazing.... I am totally at awe with each word.... The poem has drawn such electrifying images afore me that I am left amazed..... I loved every bit of the passion instilled in you and the way you have given it a touch of abstract objects ...

I never fully understood
the meaning of the word
safe until you held me in
your arms for the first time,

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You managed to give it a subtle start which is refreshing... yes when you find that perfect one, your life unfolds the meanings of a lot of emotions... very soothing..

at that point I knew God existed.

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This one line verse seems apt..

I can feel lightning strikes
my heart whenever we would
kiss and the sound of thunder
echoes throughout my body.

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True enough but describing it in an unusual and creative way is what makes it commendable... I could see sheer passion here...Makes me relate to it a lot... and you managed to describe it well...

I've always loved that sound.

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Brilliant(:

The vibrations run beneath
my skin and time ceases to exist
whenever you are near me.

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Wonderful to the core.... your this verse gives me chills for the person I adore and is true to the word... I wonder how you could describe it so well...

They say that lightning never strikes
the same place twice, but in this case

I welcome it.

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Yes you are true about the fact but the end is just amazing... I am lost of words for that... But I truly must say it is amazingly amazing... You have defined love with a new emotion and that is wonderful.:-)

Keep writing:)

This was so innovative and original, which it is hard to be when you are talking about a love poem since everything has already been said by one person or another lol but you managed it. Great write!

Wow! What a beautiful poem... and congratulations on the win! This poem really deserved it <3

I love the simplicity of this poem, but how meaningful and deep it is... I love how you describe the thunder and lightning you feel when you kiss this person... I found it interesting since lightning and thunder usually has a negative connotation, but in this case it's positive since it's describing the electricity you feel when you're close to this person.

Great job <3

I just melted. Wow! This is superbly sweet!