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Steve B
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since 2000-08-07

Posts 140
Southern PA

0 posted 2000-09-01 02:41 PM

A Mystery Called Love

What is this mystery called love?
Is there some way to define it?
Words to write the how and why of?
Categories that nicely fit?
Oh how I wish this were the truth.
Life would be, so much more facile.
No longer we'd need be love's sleuth,
With an end to all it's hassles.
Yet, this we know shall never be.
If there were but a way to show,
One's true feelings, for one to see.
In such a way that they would know,
Without a doubt, so clear and sure,
That this love, would always endure.

So simple a thing, it would seem.
So why is it so hard to do?
I try and try, until I scream,
"Please hear me, my love is so true!"
Then I think, why should they believe?
Why should any give me their trust?
So many as I, know decieve,
And the pain of treatment unjust.
So what are we to do, I ask?
When true love begs one to be known?
This mystery, love, can we unmask?
So letting it's real truth be shown?
If I knew the answer to this,
My life, I'd live in joy and bliss.

Steve B
Sept. 2000

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

1 posted 2000-09-01 06:18 PM

Hello Steve...

What a wonderful poem this is!! I don't think there really is a way to define love, as it just keeps changing!!
I really enjoyed reading this, and I also enjoyed your website very much..(love the poem in progress...it took me to a mystical place!) Great site, too!!

Today is a gift....
That is why they call it
'the Present'!

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

2 posted 2000-09-01 07:37 PM

Great poem, and I have to agree with sunny 1--except to say, that from my point of view, we do not define love--love defines US.

Thanks for this thoughtful piece.

JnR4eva
Member

since 2000-08-07

Posts 377
Bronx, NY

3 posted 2000-09-02 03:14 PM

hey steve...i wanted to know if this is a free form sonnet with meter? as for the poem itself....absoltuely lovely...makes me think, as if i don't do that enough already lol...ur poem evokes the emotions and the mind...loved the poem

"my love is my motivation
my love is my inspiration
perception of this poem
is your interpretation"
-- rlt

Steve B
Member

since 2000-08-07

Posts 140
Southern PA

4 posted 2000-09-02 04:22 PM

Sunny ~ thank you,  and we all know love can
        never be defined, I wrote this from
        perspective of trying to express true
        love with only words, without yet
        ever meeting in real, I should have
        so indicated in some way... but got
        carried away at the time...

thanks
        for visiting my site also, and I have
        finished part III of Lost but haven't
        finished the art work to go with it
        yet, but hope to soon, and thank you
        for your always kind words..Steve B

Serenity ~ as I told Sunny above, I failed to
        indicate my perspective in writing
        this piece  and I agree too, about
        the defining of love, I was meaning
        to point out the difficulty of
        expressing  love with just words....
        I thank you  for your words, time,
        and thoughts...

  Steve B

J ~ Thanks again for your kind replies, and
    this is a sonnet form that Shakespeare
    liked to use, except that I changed the
    meter to 8 syllables, or tetrameter I
    think it is called..There are many forms
    of sonnets and variations as there are
    with most all forms of poetry... Thanks
    again J

Steve B

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