The Contemporary Love Poet as a Lamp Lighter

Throughout the course of history, the contemporary love poet has served as a lamp lighter for his or her era. Even during the darkest periods of history, contemporary love poetry has frequently burst through the horizon of time, offering flickers of new light and thus, hope for humankind.

Perhaps one of the primary reasons for this lies in the reality that love has an eternal spark. The contemporary love poet is inspired by love to re-ignite that spark with his or her contemporary love poetry, from era to era. Thus, the contemporary love poet is always destined to become a lamp lighter.

Truth is an important aspect of light for humankind. Truth and love go hand in hand, throughout every era. The flame of untruth often dies out very quickly, because its fire cannot be fueled by true passion, unlike that of truth and love. If there is any degree of passion related to untruth, it is negative and thus, self destructive in nature. In other words, its fatal flaw is its own untruth. There is no light in untruth.

New thoughts, ideas and expressions surface during each era, continually fueling the flame of love and truth. Whatever the contemporary love poet chooses to magnify in his or her era, is magnified and often grows in leaps and bounds, its light gradually spilling over into future eras.

Contemporary love poets beget future contemporary love poets over time, as love and truth are magnified and continue to grow. The light of love and truth become brighter and cannot be extinguished by the non-love, or untruth of man. 

The dark side of love is evident throughout the course of history, as contemporary love poets seek to resolve their own human thoughts and feelings, in every era. To keep any flame going, a healthy balance between a spark and its fuel must be maintained. Every contemporary love poet has to struggle with the darkness of non-love and untruth in his or her own era and then, attempt to make sense of it in a way that he or she makes a positive contribution to the future of humankind by shedding new light of truth upon it.

For the contemporary love poet, It may seem to be a hopeless task, dark and dismal at first, but gradually, the light of the lamp lighter invariably breaks through the depths of the darkness, even if only as a spark at first. The optimism of the contemporary love poet ultimately surpasses his or her pessimism, in spite of the fact that the struggle seems long and difficult initially.

Contemporary love poets are not exempt from social problems, plagues and torments of humankind that surface in any era. These are reflected in poetic works, at times, seeming more like a plea for help directed to the contemporary love poet's understanding of the divine. Words or expressions used in their contemporary love poetry often reveal a new spark of life, as they discover answers that have the potential to help them and others.

Recognizing the reality that light is an important aspect of human existence, the contemporary love poet continues to project his or her light into the world. The role of the lamp lighter continues from era to era and always will.

Perhaps the contemporary love critic, readers or others, can recognize the role of lamp lighter as belonging to contemporary love poets, but not always. They may attempt to extinguish that light, or claim to be lamp lighters themselves, but seldom succeed, as the spark is re-ignited in contemporary love poetry from era to era.