Open Poetry #46 |
Rhythms of Love |
JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Love is a baby. Love is a gentleman. Love is a highwayman. Love is a mangy cur. Love is a pedigree cats purr. Love is a society dame. Love is a trailer-trash Jane. Love is a Pope's staff he uses to beckon. Love is Tennessee snake handlers I reckon. Love is being nice when no one knows. Love is making someone's face glow. Love is a tow-headed little suburban boy. Love is a nappy-headed little urban boy. Love is a fresh coat of paint. Love is your personal patron saint. Love is a rain shower for plants to drink. Love is its flowers blooming so pink. Love is chicken soup when you feel ill. Love is an arched brow giving you a chill. Love is a tongue in your ear. Love is a soft spoken, "Dear." Love is a caressing, wrinkled hand. Love is a brand new wedding band. Love is sipping soda through a straw. Love is forgiving others flaws. Love is calloused hands awkwardly holding child. Love is a happy smile. Love is shedding silent tears of happiness Love is being swept up in devotions abyss. Love is a beautiful sunrise. Love is seeing the same beauty in your lovers eyes. Love is America with all its diversity. Love is individual power because we are free. http://swamprighter.wordpress.com/ |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Well now, you certainly covered most aspects of love but the last part is the greatest! I found it interesting to meditate on each facet and see how it fits. Well done my friend! I enjoyed the read! Eric ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thanks Eric. Have to agree that the last two lines are the most important, although it seems we have developed cracks in the freedom part of it. We are definitely on the slippery slope of freedom's downfall. Nero is fiddlin', but this time he has the whole orchestra backing him up it seems. |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Gotta love it! Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Lori! Hahaha!! |
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Prats Member
since 2010-12-16
Posts 74 |
lovely!!! love really is wonderful... When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile... :D |
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mikeandrew Member
since 2010-11-18
Posts 198 |
I thoroughly enjoyed this poem. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Yep, love is really the name of the game, Prats. <><><><> Appreciate your comment, Mike. . . . and the raven said, )!(%!~@~#&$ . . . |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
So many great lines... what a wonderful Christmas present you've given us all to ponder, Jerry, on the eve of The Greatest Love... pssst...has anyone told you you've a big heart? |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
You are so kind, Sunshine. Thank you very much. pssst . . . Don't blow my cover . . . . . . and the raven said, )!(%!~@~#&$ . . . |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
shhhhhh....it's our little secret.... |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
I love your ponderings on LOVE. Greatly enjoyed. Love, Margherita |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
. . . and I thank YOU for saying such nice things about my pondering, Margherita . . . . . . and the raven said, )!(%!~@~#&$ . . . |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
"Love is seeing the same beauty in your lovers eyes". I enjoyed the whole of your write but this sentence means a litte more to me. I still see it in his eyes in many photos of him I have. One is right on my computer desk and sees me deep within. Those eyes. A little twinkle I can not explain but can still see and feel. jo |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
That is a wonderful feeling, Jo , to be able to "see" and even "feel" our lovers who are away. It gives you a presence inside that is near impossible to explain. Thank you for stopping by and reading and commenting on my poem. . . . and the raven said, )!(%!~@~#&$ . . . |
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