Love is Not a Living Thing

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Chalmette Guy
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since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

0 posted 2010-05-24 03:08 PM

Love is not a living thing
It is not born of moonlit night
It does not grow in sun's loving light
Not of Hope springing eternal;
Nor beauty personified,
Or time immortal

Love is not a tangible thing
Not to be felt as summer wind's kiss
Can't be granted with a hopeful wish
It is not the sun, the moon, the sky;
It is not a rose, or the light in your eyes

Love is not a living thing
Not of Hope springing eternal;
Nor beauty personified
Love is not a living thing
For living things have to die

sandgrain
Member Elite

since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

1 posted 2010-05-24 04:44 PM

All the way through, I wondered what brought that thought to your mind.  You answered that beautifully in the last line....that living things have to die.

Very nicely done.

  God bless,
   Rae

N|D|N|C|Lost-Poet
Member

since 2009-07-30

Posts 360
New Orleans

2 posted 2010-05-26 02:53 AM

Beautifully captured.

Chalmette Guy
Senior Member

since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

3 posted 2010-05-26 08:52 AM

Thank ya'll so much. I really like this one. Others probably don't think so, but this is a personal fave of mine, so thank you.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2010-05-26 01:43 PM

As I read, I was thinking it was a poem of bitterness... then I reached the ending and realized you'd written love's beautiful truth. Absolutely fantastic!

Eusta B. Mae
Senior Member

since 2010-05-03

Posts 903

5 posted 2010-05-26 01:56 PM

GC- Bravo! Love your tweak on the end of the nose ending. ebm

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2010-05-26 03:57 PM

Hmmmm, let me ponder on this...it is quite
the opposite of most of your writing; perhaps
that is why you like it so much.

Chalmette Guy
Senior Member

since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

7 posted 2010-05-26 04:08 PM

How so different from my other stuff Sunshine?
What is there to ponder? Just curious.

Brooks M
Junior Member

since 2010-05-26

Posts 19
California

8 posted 2010-05-26 05:02 PM

How beautiful....

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

9 posted 2010-05-26 08:14 PM

wow LOVE this!!! Beautiful doesnt even give your words justice enough!

Lamar Cole
Member

since 2009-05-01

Posts 274

10 posted 2010-05-27 12:44 PM

Love can still be like the sunrise in the twilight of a person's life.

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