Love is not a Living Thing

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PoeticKnight
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since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

0 posted 2001-05-25 04:00 PM

Love is not a living thing
It is not born of moonlit night
It does not grow in sun’s loving light
Not of hope springing eternal;
Nor beauty personified,
Or time immortal

Love is not a tangible thing
Not to be felt as the summer wind’s kiss
Cannot be granted with a hopeful wish
It is not the sun, the moon, the sky;
It is not a rose you hold like this,
Or the light in your eyes

Love is not a mortal thing
And with mortal words described
Not of hope springing eternal;
Nor beauty personified,
Love is not a living thing,
For living things have to die

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-05-25 05:02 PM

.......wow......love how you do that

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2001-05-25 05:11 PM

Love is not a living thing
It is not born of moonlit night
It does not grow in sun’s loving light
Not of hope springing eternal;
Nor beauty personified,
Or time immortal

Love is not a tangible thing
Not to be felt as the summer wind’s kiss
Cannot be granted with a hopeful wish
It is not the sun, the moon, the sky;
It is not a rose you hold like this,
Or the light in your eyes
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Love is not a living thing,
For living things have to die
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I have always thought this was one of your understated best ...
you took the imagery and the timeless classic beauty of poetic romantic phrases
tied them up in a bow of cadence and rhyme perfection..
and those last two summation lines were poetic icing on the cake.
Beautiful inspire PK

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

Titia Geertman
Member Ascendant

since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

3 posted 2001-05-25 05:18 PM

While reading I wanted to tell you I disagreed, but then came the last line wich said it all. Beautifull poem.

Titia

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

4 posted 2001-05-25 06:03 PM

I never thought of it that way. . . well done. . . this is one of your best. . . flowing very well and reading like words from the wise man to one in his care. . .

excellent. . .

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

walker
Member Elite

since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

5 posted 2001-05-25 06:48 PM

This is a really cool way to describe love. Well done!

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2001-06-05 01:32 PM

Oh I so want to argue with this....

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

7 posted 2001-06-05 01:36 PM

nice use of device... enjoyed the read.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

8 posted 2001-07-06 12:36 PM

I know you are not around so much anymore, but we do miss your work, PK. And I too, wish to argue the point and still may...but the execution of your work is flawless as always. I do hope you find your way back home to us soon, my friend. Hope that all is well.

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