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A Romantic Heart
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Forever In Your Heart

0 posted 2008-04-03 10:40 PM






It is not the love that we seek,
but the love that finds us,
having tasted both,

I find love is not love captured,
but the love that has touched,
and been set free,

For we often wonder of that love,
our minds filled with brief moments,
no restraints,

for this, I have come to understand,
is the beauty of love,
without ties that bind,

Love free to come and go,
like the days of sunshine,
days of rain,

To think I had perceived it all wrong,
after all this time,
loves beauty is held,

within the freedom of love,
love like that of a bird,
or butterfly,

Landing briefly upon your heart,
filling it with happiness and laughter,
to one day get up and fly away,

Loves death comes, when we choke it,
smother it with this and thats,
then it is no longer love,

Only just an existance, a title,
a ring, a paper document,
signed with the best of intentions,

The best love,
love yet to be discovered,
love that came,

Left with goodness between both,
so that happy smiles,
could come back one day.

Out of all the things in the world,
love cannot be put in a box,
love is more beautiful,

than what we have painted it to be,
love gives us wings to fly,
love can never be more than what we make it,

when it is simple, love glows,
in the purest of light,
feeling your heart with warmth,

warmth that never looses it flames,
an unstoppable fire,
that never goes out.

When we hold a butterfly in our hands,
we gaze upon its beauty,
if we clasp it with both hands,

we close the world around it,
until all the air it knew as its world,
disapates, depletes,

then it dies in our hands,
how beautiful is love now?
killed for our selfishness.

Love for the time you have,
love it and set if free,
love is a moment,

treasure it,
think of it often,
and be happy to have known it.



You know you're in love, when you can't fall asleep,because reality is finally better than your dream~Dr.Seuss

[This message has been edited by A Romantic Heart (04-04-2008 04:39 PM).]

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Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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Sydney, Australia
1 posted 2008-04-03 10:54 PM


ARH...what beauty in your words!  thank you for sharing .. love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Seoulair
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since 2008-03-27
Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea
2 posted 2008-04-04 12:24 PM


true.
Love is like a bird. we catch it. we hold it. we cage it. we play it. we let it free...within our room. If we lose it, we cry. We miss it.  Then we find, ah, so many spring birds. then we happy again.

Love your poem. it is beautiful.

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
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By the Seaside
3 posted 2008-04-04 12:34 PM


Your poem is breathtaking and
ever so lovely in its simple beauty.

Gorgeous writing ARH~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
4 posted 2008-04-04 06:12 AM


Enjoyed your wonderful thoughts on love...love lives, whether a relationship lives or dies...James
simon
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since 2008-01-14
Posts 440
London, England
5 posted 2008-04-04 08:00 AM


Enjoyed muchly...
CastleGuard
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since 2003-04-30
Posts 760
Alberta, Canada
6 posted 2008-04-04 11:37 AM




Well done, Lady ARH, so many truths there, hidden to be seen...

Love
like a ray of the Sun
comes freely
cannot be demanded
nor commanded
clasp it in your fist
but darkness remains.

P.S. Glad to see you posting again...

CG

Ocean Vuong
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since 2008-03-29
Posts 37
NYC
7 posted 2008-04-04 11:45 AM


Good write,

Though love is the focal point here, I feel it does not need to be repeated so much. Let the power of your adjectives hurl "love" into the readers minds, go deeper into the the emotion, we know this is a poem of love, the rest should grow from that with differentiating images that relates to loves.
-good luck,


-ocean

Artic Wind
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since 2007-09-16
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Realm of Supernatural
8 posted 2008-04-05 07:13 PM


Wonderfully Written! ARH!



ARCTIC WIND

effjayel
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since 2007-09-30
Posts 1474
At the Crossroads of Infinity
9 posted 2008-04-06 03:49 PM


Nice to see you back & posting again ARH, good job,   John
Virtual Abyss
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since 2008-04-09
Posts 52
East Coast - USA
10 posted 2008-04-26 12:44 PM


That was a neat way of expressing love.  Enjoyed it immensely!

Thank you!

V/r,

Virtual Abyss


rad802
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since 2008-04-19
Posts 279
KY U.S.A.
11 posted 2008-04-27 11:35 AM


For as long as love exist we have to concede
that there is a good posibility that God exist no matter what science tells us.

Thank you
Rick

Rick Delmonico

ctowen
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since 2001-10-18
Posts 2286
Green Mountains of VT
12 posted 2008-04-27 12:58 PM


it truly is as simple as all that ....

   Lovely words!

Ct

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