Title: “The Love of God”
Summary: This Shakespearean sonnet portrays the love of God as a divine garden, rich with floral imagery and intoxicating fragrances. The first quatrain introduces crimson roses and jasmine, their scents rising like prayers to symbolize God’s tender love piercing through darkness. The second quatrain features lilies and violets, their sweet perfumes and vibrant hues reflecting grace and mercy that nurture broken souls. The third quatrain brings lavender’s calming scent and honeysuckle’s golden balm, illustrating God’s peace and anointing presence. The final couplet concludes with an image of an evergreen garland, affirming God’s eternal, glorious love woven through every bloom. The poem intertwines vivid flower imagery with spiritual depth, celebrating divine love as both beautiful and fragrant.

The rose unfurls its crimson heart at morn,
A fragrant hymn that drifts on velvet air,
Thy love, like jasmine, blooms where night is torn,
Its tender scent a whisper soft and fair.

The lily bends with dew, a chalice sweet,
Its perfume weaves through meadows green and wide,
In violet’s sigh, Thy grace and mercy meet,
A garden vast where broken souls abide.

Through fields of lavender, Thy peace extends,
Each purple stalk a note of sacred calm,
The honeysuckle’s breath with sunlight blends,
Its golden drops anoint like holy balm.

Thy love, O Lord, a garland ever green,
In every bloom, Thy glory reigns serene.