Ph: Love: The Ins And Outs Of Love Poem by Brian Johnston
Ph: Love: The Ins And Outs Of Love
Is the passion of loins or the merging of mind
More significant role found in Love if Love's real?
And does sex make its bed (a sad urge to survive
In some way when you die) , more desires its genes thrive
Than it cares who gets screwed? Is this Love or a deal?
Does the Bible not say, "Love is patient, love's kind? "
Do two souls live as one, or do two demand three?
If one partner's not fertile, Love's exit is cool?
Will a bud freeze and wither if April brings snow?
On a day that turns cloudy, the flowers still grow?
If a heavy mist hints of rain, who but a fool
Would be sure of more drought and embrace Love's debris!
Love lives outside of seasons may turn but won't roam.
It's in faith that Love knows itself, stakes its beachhead,
Love is not about ownership, measured by rhyme.
And its Beauty when recognized lives 'out of time.'
'Out of time' for the living, even more, for the dead,
Love's relaxed and not lonely. Love knows that it's home!
Feel my hand on your shoulder; no warmth can bring pain
That's not just pain we've chosen. Is Love's touch a token?
When you love, and I know you love, where's Love's defeat?
When I love, and you know I love, Love is complete.
Love needs no consummation (for Truth lives unspoken) !
'In love? ' 'Out? ' Hurts to feel! Love! What more can one gain?
Brian Johnston
7th of July in 2019
1 - line 2: perhaps start with " The" and how about " minds" , not " mind" in line 1?
I would say that the " The" at the beginning of the 2nd line is rightly understood and not required since the first line uses " the" twice my friend. As for making " mind" in the first line plural, perhaps I should captitalize it for I mean it to be the universal mind and not just the mere " minds" of a man an a woman! You thought it was just to force a rhyme with " kind" in the last line of the first stanza? Ha!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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2 - i don't like the rhyme scheme. in fact i hate it. you Do rhyme consistently, but, as i've told people before, the poem can suffer, making it less understood. i think (KNOW, for me) that has happened here! i love good rhyming but would much rather have a totally un-rhyming poem than a well-rhymed one such as this one....as long as the un-rhyming one is understandable. bri :)
I love flow Bri, and good rhyme as well. Close rhymes can call too much attention to themselves and distract (make a poem sing-songy!) Easy rhymes and self indulgent " free verse" can make a 'poet' lazy! Rhyming requires effort, makes you think about what you are saying, and the search for rhyme can also inspire! But say more please! What is it that you really hate here or do you just love laziness? Ha!