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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US 
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While I hate empty forums, I unfortunately have nothing new to post. Will you settle for an older poem? This was written nearly a year ago, in response to growing questions (at least in mind) about cyber-romance and that seemingly strange phenomenon of falling in love with someone you've yet to meet. The wheel, it turns from year to year, The seasons shift and disappear. Suns rise and set like metronome, And time constrains all things I've known. It took ten billion years of time For stars to form from cosmic grime. Another billion years or more For life to crawl from ocean's shore. Just sixty thousand years have passed Since on the earth mankind trespassed, And only five of those have shown Society as we have known. Two score and nine I've sought my place In time's enduring, sweet embrace, With quiet queries still thought of - How long's it take to fall in love? Does love spring forth complete and whole? Accomplishment, instead of goal? The way Athena's birth is said, As goddess leaped from father's head? Is love an instant happenstance? A quantum spark afire by chance? A moment timed by shooting star? One breath you're not, the next you are? Or does it track predicted course, All stemming from predicted source? One step, then two, as placed in time, A path we walk, a hill we climb? Does love begin with newfound trust? Or does it start as feral lust? Should loved one first be just a friend? And when do love's beginnings end? If this were measured on a graph, How could we do romantic math? Plot time on X, and depth on Y? What kind of curve would love inscribe? And could we find a point in time When trust and lust and hope combine? When all beginnings must become A greater whole than just their sum? The eons thrash and ages writhe, As Legends turn to obscure myth, But epochs speak still nothing of How long it takes to fall in love. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Wonderful. But you pose a question. If you posted this over a year ago, that now means your four score and ten? [Couldn't help myself!] This does make you wonder when lust turned to love, doesn't it? |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
SBCYTFA |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
Great piece Ron! ------------------ A soul that writes from the heart and shares it, truly gives a gift extraordinaire! [This message has been edited by Pepper (edited 11-28-1999).] |
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JOY 14 Senior Member
since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419Wisconsin USA |
Very good work. ------------------ JOY -Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. -Mark Twain |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
One of my favorites...and a question that intrigues me much lately. |
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Alexandrine New Member
since 1999-11-17
Posts 3 |
Does the heart need to hear a voice to fall in love thus Or should the heart Feel unsaid words Is this way for us Can the soul see a face In the window of our eyes Or does the soul Know when the written word lies If you could but see The me that hides Here behind the screen Would you then Love me more Than her that You have seen If love be found In this worldly net Would it be your seine Or would you Slip away to find You’d loved her in vain ------------------ ~ ~ Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~ ~ |
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Isis Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296Sunny Queensland |
Ron, It may be an oldy but it's certainly a goody!! Well done  ------------------ The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there IS to celebrate. ~Isis~ (Daughter of Mystery) |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
Thanks, everyone, for your kind words. This is probably my second favorite structured piece among those I've written, and I'm glad others enjoyed it, too. Sunshine: But you pose a question. If you posted this over a year ago, that now means your four score and ten? A question? I thought I posed a whole bunch of questions! Must be you mean there was only one you didn't know the answer to? (I said "nearly" a year ago...) [edit]I suddenly realized there was a serious typo in the poem - that should have been TWO score and nine! [/edit][This message has been edited by Ron (edited 11-28-1999).] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Lots of questions, indeed! Don't know if anyone has the answers! Great poem, Ron! hehehe...two score and nine...good one  ------------------ Denise |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Ron this was excellent. Oh, to write like this. Fabulous and I'm glad you posted it! ------------------ <*\\\>< |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
If you ever manage to define love... or why we fall in love or love the one we love... you can retire a very wealthy man... especially if you furnish an antidote along with your solution? *G* Beautiful, Ron! |
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Fairy Colours Member
since 1999-12-02
Posts 169Sunrise,Fl,US |
Ron... You are obviously gifted. |
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Lost Dreamer Member Elite
since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464Somewhere near the Rainbow |
I enjoyed this poem and all it's wonder, so I'm gonna grace everyone with a second look. |
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Little_Spyro Senior Member
since 2000-01-09
Posts 659San Diego, CA, USA |
Thanks, Lost Dreamer! I enjoyed this second look!  And thanks to you, Ron, for posting this here in the first place...I agree with all the above replies, this is great!  Little Spyro T. Dragon |
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Sasikat Member
since 2000-02-02
Posts 290St. Petersburg, FL |
Oh what a beautiful poem. I am so glad you posted it here for all of us to enjoy. I know I certainly did. Sheila |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
hi Ron, this is a shining example of the quality of writing i hope to achieve when i reach four score and nine... simply awesome..i do wish you post your old works more often |
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blackhalo Member
since 2000-02-15
Posts 467Denver, CO |
Amazingly wonderful, beautiful, sound. I do not attempt To be right But I did it In just one night Well, that's for all the romantics! Good luck in finding an answer. A truly beautiful expression, ron. Off to send it to my love! Alicia A. Renzelman |
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ellie LeJeune Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156King of Prussia, PA USA |
Eternal question! I haven't a clue, but ain't love grand? I just enjoy the beauty of your writing and the grandeur of this poem. Ellie Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. Joseph Fort Newton |
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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
Hey loved this, its a question i've asked myself too. Nicely written Life has got to chnage, Nothing stays the same, Soon it will be time, For me to move on. |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Me gusto mucho! This was great, hope to see more!  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I hate your socks. I'd like to burn them! |
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Romy Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1170Plantation, Florida |
Yes, very beautiful, More! More! |
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kcsgrandma Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522Presque Isle, ME |
There's probably not anyone over 10 who hasn't asked some or all of these questions, but there aren't many who have asked so eloquently! I'm delighted to see what a fine writer you are!To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables Marilyn |
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Miss Behavin' Member
since 1999-06-16
Posts 84 |
Perhaps a quantum spark of chance, Or just a simple happenstance ~ Love's found behind a cryptic door, Once opened thou shall quest no more. Love does depend on mutual trust Embodied by intrinsic lust. The one we love must be a friend, Or love's beginning's bound to end. There is a time surpassed by none, When trust and lust, as love, are one. Clandestine dreams, entrust to each ~ The Sun shall rise within thy reach. To fall in love does not take long. Hearts know at once when they belong. Seems whether near or from afar, One beat they're not, the next they are. |
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