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Thank you Muser...
and it was actually your poetry blog that led me to Uncle Dave, a brit like me
I am thinking about the paradoxes in "Love" that are set up by the quotation you posted, one which I have always liked, and which reminds me of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, the lines that say: "...love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds", or even more so: "Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle's compass come; / Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom." - So what happens?? Guess we give up on being accommodating...
posted by
mneme
on May 4, 2006 at 2:52 AM
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mneme, I am so glad you found your way to Dave's Blog...brilliant writer...
in my view! As for your painfully moving poem...for me it was, again, a beautifully written flashback into my past. It is so very sad when the all important little things that mean so much are withdrawn...
Love is given freely...not delayed so that one must wait for it..not withheld until one must ask for it.
I think the following is THE definitive of what real love is:
Love is patient, Love is kind,
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud, It is not rude,
It is not self-seeking,
It is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
L o v e N e v e r F a i l s.
Corinthians 13 : 4 - 8
posted by
muser
on May 3, 2006 at 6:16 AM
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Uncle Dave
I'm glad you thought so, and thank you for the encouragement.
posted by
mneme
on May 1, 2006 at 3:47 AM
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Mneme, that's very good. Studied and careful writing. Good stuff.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on May 1, 2006 at 3:08 AM
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