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the corners of our love. . .
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the corners of our love. . . |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA 
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if we are to love, then, let us love as we were meant to, truly and honestly, with the depth and feeling that marks the most complete of lovers not as young lovers, whose passion soon fades with the setting sun, not as old lovers, whose flames of desire snuff out like old candles, but just as lovers, as two people who are not just two pieces of the same puzzle, but who are puzzles in their own right two people who will spend the rest of their lives working together, finding pieces of themselves that they never knew they had pieces that they will find in corners of their lives that they never knew existed but, they won’t be missing pieces, they will be the pieces that they have shut off from themselves, pieces that will come into being when the love from another heart, the light from another heart, allows us to finally look into those corners because we know that their love will be with us their love will be with us to help us face what is in those corners so that we might grow, so that we might change, so that we might love deeper and truer than we ever thought possible for this is what loves bestows to us, it is the idea that we will find not only who we are now, but who we are to be and, in finding that idea, we become more than soulmates we become more than lovers we become what love is. . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. [This message has been edited by Sven (edited 06-18-2001).] |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Puzzling thought  Is love a puzzle? Well done my friend. |
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Fancy Member
since 2001-06-05
Posts 189TN/USA |
...an absolutely marvelous writing...you have been able to put words to a definition of love that seems so evasive to so many...thank you for such truth in the beauty of words...I love this... |
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MyEnchanted_Melody Senior Member
since 2001-05-30
Posts 1106across the land of dreams. In your heart, I'd always be. |
All of love is just a mystery You have analyzed it in such a beautiful thought-provoking and wonderful way....... I quite enjoyed the intercating deep thoughts you've penned here...... Thank you ************************ It's only me.......only me |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Yes, this is what it should be, so very well described. Sandra |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
"...who are puzzles in their own right..." write... write on.... well done, Sir! |
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Mabel A. Dilley Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 859Seattle, WA, USA |
I balked a bit at the "old lovers", but I pressed on and found you have described the pureness of love very well. "I am not now that which I have been." |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
I looked up love in the dictionary and it said...we defer to Sven. Yep, I think you got it here! |
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Logan Senior Member
since 2001-05-28
Posts 1641Arkansas |
Excellent read, Sven, and so honestly true..gentle smile |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
Indeed, and there is always more pieces waiting...wonderful write. Poeminister "There is no remedy for love but to love more." --Henry David Thoreau |
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Tara Simms Senior Member
since 1999-08-12
Posts 1244Honea Path, SC USA |
Sven, this is beautiful. You did a great job of describing what a mature, lasting love should be. I love how you described not only how two lovers fit together, but how they fit into the big picture around them, too. Take me as I am or watch me as I go |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
Sven loved the way you pieced this puzzle together. He is light and I am darkness yet we fit together because we are different as day and night. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Interloper, love is indeed a puzzle. . . but when it fits right,  thank you. . . Fancy, thank you. . . that's what I was going for here, something that's true. . .but that we never seem to find. . . Enchanted Melody, thank you. . . I hope that you will consider these thoughts. . . Sandra, thank you my friend. . . I'm glad that you enjoyed. . . Sunshine, thank you. . . and I'm doing as told. . . Julian, sometimes, old lovers can teach us a thing or two. . . thank you. . . JLR, I think that you're looking in the wrong dictionary!! LOL Thank you. . . Logan, thank you Sir. . . glad that you enjoyed. . . Poeminister, half the fun is finding those pieces. . . thank you. . . Tara, thank you. . . I've learned a lot recently about what love is, and what it should be, and I tried to show that here. . .thank you for seeing it. . . inot2B, it's our differences that make us the same. . . thank you my friend. . . -------------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Beautiful, Sven! It causes me to recall the one thing, in particular, that makes a relationship succeed...when the two persons in it have strengths and weaknesses that compliment each other. Not that cannot have the same strengths, but that where the have a weakness, the other has that strength. Of course, it only works if the two are able to see it that way, a way to make their union a truly strong one. I know some people who really seem to fit each other just that way. |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
This is wonderful. A very deep and insightful piece. Joyce |
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Lisann Member
since 2001-01-31
Posts 350 |
Sven, I always enjoy reading your writing. You are a very beautiful and talented writer. Keep it up. As a women who has just discovered the real meaning of love--both in my marriage and more recently in friendships--This poem really touched me. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
"as two people who are not just two pieces of the same puzzle, but who are puzzles in their own right two people who will spend the rest of their lives working together, finding pieces of themselves that they never knew they had pieces that they will find in corners of their lives that they never knew existed but, they won’t be missing pieces, they will be the pieces that they have shut off from themselves," Yep I love it! The rest is really equally as good! Good going smoothie! |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
great work here SVEN... many many lines I enjoyed... |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
This is absolutely beautiful! You already know that I'm a huge fan of your romantic heart~ Yes, love can be a puzzle - a mystery, but, when you find your soulmate it's like a ying to your yang (a perfect fit) and you speak of that well in the ending verse  Take care, Melissa~ |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
VAS, you hit the nail right on the head. . . that's exactly what I was going for with this one. . . thank you so much my friend. . . Joyce, thank you for reading. . . Lisann, thank you. . . I too, have been going through a lot, and have discovered some things about myself. . . this is one of them. . . ethome, thank you my friend. . . but I am hardly a smoothie!!! LOL Capt Hair, glad that you enjoyed it. . . thank you. . . Melissa, I know that you perfectly understand what I'm talking about here. . . for your heart is very much like this. . . and I know that it will soon find it's mate as well. . . Thank you my friend. . .---------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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