From "LOVE 2000 AD" to "LOVE 2010 AD"

“LOVE 2000 AD”, is the name of a poetry project that I started at the turn of the century. Love poetry had become my personal passion.

I had just completed my Master of Philosophy degree, at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario (Canada), in 1997.

I registered AMAZON ART REPRODUCTIONS in 1998, in Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada), as a single proprietorship, for the purpose of publishing my personal collection of love poetry. I had started to write love poetry in conjunction with artwork and photography.

Horizons are stepping stones for new horizons.

This “Love 2000 AD” poetry project or horizon, I am beginning to realize now, was just the first stepping stone towards the next one, namely the envisioned expansion of this project, to include other love poets and their love poetry, as “Love 2010 AD”. Yes, it is ten years later. I still have not written all of the love poetry, that can be written.

“Love has a complexity, multiplicity and diversity of expression.” The horizons of love are infinite. So are the horizons of love poetry. Writing love poetry continues to be my passion and probably always will be. So if you are a love poet, welcome to my world!

"Love, I'll put my hand in yours and if you don't let go, we'll be together forever." This short poem depicts the heart and soul of “Love 2000 AD”.

I wrote this poem, now entitled “Love”, at the International Society of Poets Conference, held in Washington, DC, in 1995.

As it was given to me, I penned it on the scroll for the “World's Largest Poem For Peace.”

Let me tell you more about this unique scroll. Poets from all over the world attended the international poetry conference. We were all invited to submit a new piece of poetry for this project, or to write a new poem on the scroll, that had been set up in one of the rooms. It was actually a huge roll of paper, unrolled at one end and re-rolled on the other end of several tables that had been set together lengthwise.

Not having any of my poetry with me at that moment and not wanting to let the opportunity slip by, I quickly penned this poem.

I entitled this poem “Love,” at a later date.