A Drop Of Love is Bradford Johnson's poetic celebrations all the aspects of romantic relationships. This outstanding and enthusiastically recommended collection of one hundred upbeat poems are showcased with chapter illustrations and thematic border designs by Janice Clymer. Love As A Strategy: In our unspoken pledges/we entrust each other/with vulnerabilities/that we don't even know/about ourselves;//in our labor of love we refuel smiles with sunrise,/and acknowledge the sunsets/as they lure away the/last remaining daylight.//In our chess game/with the world we search/our hearts for survival tactics/to move successfully/against the timer;/in our lust for living/we rage, rage against/the dying of what might/really be an answer disguised/within the question.//In our own ambiguities/and uncertainties we may wonder,/but we stoke the fires of action/so that, ultimately, we will/die with our boots on.

this is an amazing book, ranking up there with Buber's 'Ecstatic Confessions', Kapleau's 'Three Pillars of Zen', and the 1960's film 'Holy Ghost People', as being a valuable collection of authentic religious experience. Thankfully, African Americans have preserved the experience of the Holy Spirit described in this book in Gospel Music. The traditions described in this book deserve to be revived and preserved, i.e. 'the mourner's bench', and singing in a circle out in a field at night. It seems to me this book helps to show that we are all slaves to the world and society until freed by the holy spirit.