What is Love?

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The present is too pressing
Somehow I must escape
The barren arid dreariness
Of love's lost hope landscape


The landmarks seem familiar
Though viewed as through a haze
For I have been here times before
In younger carefree days


Yonder see the quicksand
Where my élan now drowns
Careful lest you get too close
Its boundaries are unknown


The shiftless sands of time are there
Awaiting my mis-step
Its placid grey indifference
Belie the perilous depths


Devoid horizons crouch to swell
The searing grit that blasts
The tumbleweeds of haloed dreams
We dug up from the past


But look! A cactus flower
How soft and sweet its leaves
Of blood red blending into pinks
And white of purity


I've caressed these blossoms and
Have showered them with tears
Inhaled their fragrant rare essence
Because your face they mirrored


Now embracing spiny thorns
They sting and injure me
My mind reels from the poison
Still my heart I cannot free


Written by Magenta in 1988
Sounds tragic!
 

ebdesroches

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I tried to shield this heart from love
To spare myself the pain
Forlorn indeed I fell
And this endeavor wrought my shame


Because I could not face the depth
Of feelings you inspired
I ran away
How could I know
I'd burn in hell's vile fires?


I tried to pick the pieces up
. Abyssmal
. . . Broken
. .. . . Charred
A semblance of normality
I worked for very hard


Thusly mired I struggled
Both to end and attain flight
Striving to excise the wound
And cease my despaired plight


But always irrevocably
Your image came to bear
My being strained to fill the void
With love I could not share


Ever present buried deep
Within my tortured soul
My love lay pining hidden from
A world which seemed so cold


How could I have so erred in life
To plainly lose my way
Ignoring my emotive will
Keeping my self at bay


By thinking I'd be happy
In fulfilling others' hearts
Relentless death crept on me
And eclipsed my vital spark


Written by Magenta in 1988
More tragic?
 

ebdesroches

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I understand the poem better after reading oldethennew's comment on here. If the poem is about this as well?

Very well put together, all words are nicely combined.
Karma does not happen. We dont repeat life. Once we die…no second chance
 

ebdesroches

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If dishes were fishes they'd lick the plates clean
Needing no water in basins to rinse per routine
To get rid of all traces of gravy 'n' poutine


Not that I'm a lover of such French fried spuds
But I needed a rhyme or this poem'd be a dud.


:giggle:

And dishes are doozies, the doing, the mess
I really detest them I freely confess.


Much rather I'd have fishes swimming in my sink
To ponder and muse on and help myself think
Of the mysteries profound and the awe life us brinks
Instead of dishes piled up and causing a stink.


:LOL:

To go swimming with fishes - of mammalian species
Is dreamed of by many and this ain't no deliracy!
Nor drummed up by those in the making of seaspiracies
To lay bare the horror of fishy atrocities


Oh, no, so I'm told these dear fishies do bear
All manner of discomfit empowered to snare
Their flesh although scaly and meat bony within
There still are those, yes! Who with fish long to swim.


And just think of it, fam, if dishes were fishes
The delicacies beyond even outlandish wishes
Would be served up daily alongside spud knishes
Though caviar and sushi they'd sure hope were bishes!
Haha fun rhymes
 
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pablocito

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My comment was suppose to be (got scrambled) I see Many of your gracious posts and welcoming kindness to me and others, thanks
Take all the time, the bible has been around for centuries and will be around until the end, although the bible keeps stating that today is the day of salvation.

I really believe that Jacob refused to put his head to a pillow or bed, but rather chose to wrestle with God all night until God sometime in the morning would bless him; he was not as physically whole the next morning as his hip was dislocated, but his spiritual state was deemed acceptable to God as God blessed him.