Wednesday 15 February 2017

POETS UNITED - LOVE

“If you wish to be loved – love!” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poets United this week (quite aptly with Valentine’s Day just celebrated) has as its Midweek Motif the theme of “love”. Here is my contribution: 

Love 

What a feeling... Almost nothing,
In my mind and in my heart;
It is nothing or it’s something;
But it makes me jump and start...

What could I be lacking now?
What I need and what I want
Would my sweetest fate allow,
Or its lack my dreams to haunt?

Is it hunger, is it thirst?
No, my stomach wildly turns.
What to wish for, should I, first?

Ease of mind, for which it yearns?
Or peace of heart, about to burst?
Sweet this feeling, but how it burns!

14 comments:

  1. ease of mind or peace of heart... love poses a quandary indeed!

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  2. ah yes, who can explain it, feelings of love can be very confusing

    much love...

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  3. I can feel the almost-bursting of that heart, in the fast and frantic rhythm you use.

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  4. it Is something...sweet & burning...beautifully captivated...

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  5. I know the burning, the questing of that "almost nothing." Thank God for it!

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  6. Ah! This feeling is indeed both sweet and burning and it tends to leave us quite dazed. Well-penned. :-)
    -HA

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  7. The rollercoaster of love -- what a ride!

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  8. I love that photo. Yes, love burns.....brave those who venture forth. But it is a journey not to be missed.

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  9. Ah.. that burn our heart experiences is one of love. Beautifully rendered.

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  10. Love seems to put every sense into play as though checking to prove the match is right so that you both can become one.

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  11. Oh, it surely does burn, doesn't it? I enjoyed the poem you wrote using this picture as inspiration, I assume!!

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  12. Love is all consuming. It is a wonder any of us survive it.

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  13. Or peace of heart, about to burst?
    Sweet this feeling, but how it burns!

    Famous last words and it was rekindling back those fun days! Thoughts most of us share, Nicholas!

    Hank

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