Recollecting Love's Neglecting

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RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2001-07-07 08:57 AM

I recall when Love arrived
all life I felt was mine,
squalls and storms we would survive
we'd ride them out just fine.

New passion always seems to thrive,
enlace and intertwine,
no rationale need it derive
it's graciously devine.

Then too soon we had to strive
to keep our Love in line,
When it gasped we would revive
it's terms we'd redefine.

But slowly most our talk was jive,
our logic asinine,
so lowly sank our Love that I've
the urge from it resign.

With baling wire we'd contrive
to avoid warning signs,
assailing Love as we'd deprive
it's truth we'd undermine.

I recall in Love's archives
our once sweet valentine
and all the ways that we connived
to desecrate it's shrine.

SmittenKitten
Senior Member

since 2001-06-20

Posts 1131
where the sky and horizon meet

1 posted 2001-07-07 11:41 AM

Wow....a very powerful write. It is only in looking back that we can see these things so clearly eh?
Great job!
~Krista

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you.
And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
~Winnie the Pooh

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-07-07 11:53 AM

this reminds me of my poem "Stay Awake"

yours is a good warning to those who would take a relationship for granted, thinking it didn't need tending, that a love that is strong doesn't need to be fed and nurtured

good one

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2001-07-07 05:28 PM

looking forward or looking back???

I would say, looking where you are. . .

excellent work. . .

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

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

4 posted 2001-07-07 07:43 PM

Wow, I think your approach to this is excellent. Sad the way love changes at times, even in spite of efforts.
Sandra

Elizabeth

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since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

5 posted 2001-07-07 08:23 PM

It happens......sadly

juanrodriguez
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since 2001-04-17

Posts 66
ontario canada

6 posted 2001-07-07 08:44 PM

yo that was a wicked poem .....still just remember this ....love will always be unpredictable .....so don't always seek for happy ends

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

7 posted 2001-07-07 09:10 PM

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New passion always seems to thrive,
enlace and intertwine,
no rationale need it derive
it's graciously devine.
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yes..new love is devine..unfortunately, it sometimes goes astray, and becomes something we'd be better off getting out of and starting again..

nice write..

hugs, g

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
-Stone Temple Pilots

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

8 posted 2001-09-28 11:23 PM

I just knew there were gems of rhyme I had missed in these much too fast moving pages...
and this is one.
very cool bittersweet write Richard...
been reading you in back pages ...
Im glad I didnt miss these early posts from you.

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