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What True Love is Not...
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What True Love is Not... |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA 
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Loving someone... Loving someone is not about poems that wrench into a heart. Taking that person through months of written tenderness, false hope. Never calling to say hello in a personal way, without mystery. Letting it all hang there....address unknown.. It is not about beautiful romantic words on a blue screen. It is about faces, voices, tenderness and contact. It is not about sudden disappearances without goodbyes.... Or untimely re-emergence as though all is just peachy keen. It is about truth and love, never failing to say...I am here. Never leaving without personally saying goodbye. It is not about being somewhere else, waving a poem, waiting to see. It is about going to where the heart lies, being personal... True love is not flowery words, poems without faces.... True love is the voice that speaks....the eyes that are seen...For the eyes don't tell lies...words do. |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
Good Lord in Heaven, you have blown me away. That's all I can say right now...blown completely away with this one. 'Fiction is the truth inside the lie.' ~Stephen King |
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strbbux Member Elite
since 2001-12-19
Posts 3859 |
Love, and the greatest of these is love. wonderful poem, floria |
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RosePetal
since 2001-08-26
Posts 2985South Florida |
I'm blown away as well! There is so much truth in this poem. Loving someone with all your heart requires honesty, understanding, committment, all the things you've mentioned! I LOVE this one. must save it to my library. RP |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Kay...I wrote this for a friend of mine who has been taken down a path of deception on a poetry forum..(Not PiP)... This is something that really grates on my system... Thanx... Barry |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (sigh) Sooooooooooo beautiful, sweet friend, I believe that true love is all about being there everyday when love needs you the most, being faithful and trusting, and to always believe in each other and help understand tears! (sigh) God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much, your heart shines with loves true beauty! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Barry, thank you for sharing! May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Thank You Floria...enjoy your thoughts... |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Rose Petal...to answer your question from my other poem....Barry is my name...And you may use it all you want... I wrote this about love...about how some use flowery words to give love that is not true...is deceptive...and very hurtful... thanx.. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Noah...my ever faithful friend...Thank You. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
...very very true Barry.....very true.... ~* A dream is a wish your heart makes... *~ |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Thank You Nancy...is a sensitive subject to me...Just writing my feelings about it.. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Magnus - I like what I've read here my friend, I like what I've read... BC |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Thanx BC....YEP...and I have a lot of feelings about it too....guess you kinda noticed that, huh? |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Absolutely excellent writing, Barry! You say it like it is... |
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Tracey Member Elite
since 2001-08-29
Posts 2808where insanity meets breeding |
Well done Barry. You truly speak of what love is here..and what it is not. Such a sad story of your friend, and, I fear, one that happens far too often. If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please? |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Michael, my friend...and I mean that... I write with feelings...and sometimes I just have to say it like I see it...And sadly, what I have seen hurts....because I have seen what it has done to someone I respect and care about...That puts it on a personal level with me...Mess with my friends...and you mess with me... Just the way I am...Thanx 'deer... |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Tracey...I agree...and I know that I write things that a lot of ladies simply adore... But I won't ever try to make any one of them or you feel that I am giving those words to any person at PiP...I have a lady in my life. Been married to her 32 years...and I will give them to her with sincerity... |
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Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
ouch!!!This one really hits hard and deep, my friend. *sigh* you have truly said what love is and that is something I need to pay close attention to. **extra big hugs**  Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
I like your words about love...James |
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Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
So very true Barry ... a powerful poem, with a powerful message, you've captured it well.  Best wishes, /Kit |
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Ariana Senior Member
since 2000-10-08
Posts 571Orlando, Florida |
Mr. "M": I can't seem to say any more than what others have said. Excellent and there have been many that have been taken down the wrong path and have really gotten hurt. You are absolutely correct. |
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