Reflections on what love is

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Just A Woman
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since 2001-03-10

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0 posted 2001-03-16 01:25 PM

I don't need or want love
to complete me

The center of me
The core that is my soul
is a circle
that can stand alone
Whole
without empty spaces I need to be filled by another

The love you give me
is the beautiful colors painted over my center
Reflected in the sparkle within my eyes
The gentle warmth my laughter dances upon

It is a gift
Beautiful in it's purity
Not a need
that I demand from you

And that's why love is free
Why we feel it in the wind
Why we stand in awe of how it
captures all the colors of the sun

Love is not desparation
being chained in the darkness of sadness and need

I cannot complete you
But I can love you
Completely

"When people show you who they are, believe them"

~Maya Angelou~

JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

1 posted 2001-03-16 01:41 PM

I cannot complete you
But I can love you
Completely

If I decide to grow up, can I be you?

Love your new sig...it is one of my favorite quotes...one I constantly try to remind myself is true.

Sunshine

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2 posted 2001-03-16 02:03 PM

Excellent.....

bslicker

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since 2000-12-04

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3 posted 2001-03-16 02:25 PM

Completely Wonderful

Bernie

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Jellybean King
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since 2001-03-07

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4 posted 2001-03-16 03:30 PM

Wow...that last stanza is truely a classic...loved it! Woven in your poem is also the notion that in order to love completely, one needs to be a complete person...maybe too in order to be a complete person, one needs to love completely...

Jellybean King

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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5 posted 2001-03-16 03:44 PM

Enjoyed reading your poem...it seems so easy to fall into the desperation category where love is concerned...like if your hadn't eaten for three days you would be desperate for some food...not necessarily demanding it but trying every possible way to get some...James

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

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6 posted 2001-03-17 07:50 PM

quote:
I cannot complete you
But I can love you
Completely

this is all that anyone should ask of love. . . or of those that would love them. . .

wonderful my friend. . . from the heart. . . and honest. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

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7 posted 2001-03-17 08:40 PM

Love is not desparation
being chained in the darkness of sadness and need

I cannot complete you
But I can love you
Completely

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wise words just a woman ...
and written poetically lovely
nice use of imagery as well.
take care
jm
well done.

We wish ourselves beautiful,
we cry in the night.
Its not the love you fear ...
its the fall from the height.
~Edwin McCain~

Katherine Chandler
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 280
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8 posted 2001-03-17 10:28 PM

A very postive reflection on what love is. I really enjoyed the independent edge to this too.

Kate

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

sandgrain
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since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

9 posted 2001-03-18 04:54 PM

Overflowing with truth and wisdom, this piece is a real saver.
Rae

Raindrops
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 15

10 posted 2001-03-18 06:43 PM

This is so filled with wonderful wisdom. So sweet and sometimes bitter.

I need to understand that. Loving as not a need. I think you called it a gift. Makes sense to me. Wishing I could write it like you.

*sigh* I don't think I am there yet. But am gonna keep trying.

Best Wishes
Rosemary

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ATelamon
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since 2001-02-06

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11 posted 2001-03-18 09:14 PM

So true, we know that healthy, real Love inspires the self to be just that.
You write it very very well. And the more you are centered the more dreams shall come into physical being.
I used to tell one person so many things you touch on. That value is determined from within. And so much more.
Still
The circle of the self needs be forged in pure HeavenStone. From there entire worlds appear.

An excellent piece.

And of course
My compliments

"Be your own hero. Save your interior landscape. As in all mythos the blight can be defeated and the land turned back to freedom and fertility.

[This message has been edited by ATelamon (edited 03-18-2001).]

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