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Metering Love
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Metering Love |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5567 Metering Love 30 July 2006 Who cares about meter that measure to make The flow of a poem and heaven for God’s sake Who cares about right or wrong Then what about those lyrics in attachment to Beethoven’s song Those words Mozart did write were they really his own or another was way of flight Who said love was love and could that be at first sight Lies and truth metre and measure Those ways we do spell or was love pure pleasure 1: meter, metre, m - (the basic unit of length adopted under the French Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)). Spelling in ways of difference where in US English the word “metre” is presented as “meter” (kilometre/kilometer) 2: meter - (any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity; measure with a meter; “meter the flow of water”) 3: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence - ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse) 4: meter, metre, time - (rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration) © 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet) a poet who cares |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Sometimes, even the truth can be a lie... You are deepening, my friend. PiP has that quality, of either deepening us or turning us shallow....I'm glad to see that it's taking you in the best direction. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Most excellent Christopher. I really enjoyed this piece. For it was not into my ear you whispered |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
More the pity that some of my better writes got lost down the page without anyone making a comment on them But all that aside, I truly appreciate your kind words and maybe I will keep sharing my writing here with other fellow 'poets' on PIP a poet who cares |
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