A Book of Love
Viewing comments for Chapter 17 "Unaware"Assorted poems of love
35 total reviews
Comment from l.raven
Hi Missy, such true words...when love isn't true...most of the time it doesn't last..true love is forever...so very well written...I still gave a ton of these to read...LOL..you did a great job...love ya Linda xxoo
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Hi Missy, such true words...when love isn't true...most of the time it doesn't last..true love is forever...so very well written...I still gave a ton of these to read...LOL..you did a great job...love ya Linda xxoo
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Linda, chil, I am sending you a big ol virtual hug...ready? Here it is...HUGGGGGGGG :)
Thanks for always being so generous with me.
Missy
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LOL...love your replies you...you are so sweet and sooooooo very welcome...xxoo luff
Comment from Linda Engel
I like the way you compare love to a fast storm that rains on our head and just as quickly goes away. Our Southern storms are like that. When love leaves as fast as it engulfs us, we are left in wonder, stranded on the shoreline to be washed away. This is a good expression of love not settling in for the rainbows. Very nice.
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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I like the way you compare love to a fast storm that rains on our head and just as quickly goes away. Our Southern storms are like that. When love leaves as fast as it engulfs us, we are left in wonder, stranded on the shoreline to be washed away. This is a good expression of love not settling in for the rainbows. Very nice.
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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You bet our storms are. And love from a southern man can be just as dangerous as one of them ...lol.
Thank you for sharing your valuable time here with me :)
Missy
Comment from Ric Myworld
I learned the trick to overcoming heartbreak at a very early age. When a girl friend dumped me for my older cousin. "If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with." Then, when they come crying back, if you're lucky like me, you might realize you didn't like them so much anyway. Thanks for another fine poem. :-)
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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I learned the trick to overcoming heartbreak at a very early age. When a girl friend dumped me for my older cousin. "If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with." Then, when they come crying back, if you're lucky like me, you might realize you didn't like them so much anyway. Thanks for another fine poem. :-)
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Hey hey hey...that is a familiar tune...
"If you can't be with the one you love...love the one you're with", Yep been there for sho!!
Thanks again for another awesome review, sug.
Missy
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
Hello, Missy :)
I like your free verse love poem for the Picture This challenge. It is fun to see all the different interpretations of the same picture. Yours is very well written and easy to read. Good job!
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Hello, Missy :)
I like your free verse love poem for the Picture This challenge. It is fun to see all the different interpretations of the same picture. Yours is very well written and easy to read. Good job!
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Gypsy, long poems are difficult for me. I try to pack a punch in few words. Sometimes it works and sometimes...ehhh!!!
Thanks hon :)
Missy
Comment from Jacqueline M Franklin
Hi, Missy
= I like your interpretation of the artwork.
= Spot on in the off/on of love so quickly.
= This was an interesting piece to pull from
= Nice job.
* Cheers & Blessings *
Keep Smilin'... Jackie (*>*) Jax
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Hi, Missy
= I like your interpretation of the artwork.
= Spot on in the off/on of love so quickly.
= This was an interesting piece to pull from
= Nice job.
* Cheers & Blessings *
Keep Smilin'... Jackie (*>*) Jax
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Yes, it was a "Challenge" :) My mind works mainly in one area, romance. So, ya know I had to make it about love. :)
Missy
Oops almost forgot...Thanks you hon for the review!!
Comment from MelB
Hi Missy, this is a great interpretation. You are right, love comes quickly and it can leave even more quickly. I like the last line the most.
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Hi Missy, this is a great interpretation. You are right, love comes quickly and it can leave even more quickly. I like the last line the most.
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Was my thought too, Mel. I am delighted you saw it the way I did. :)
Thanks
Missy
Comment from Dean Kuch
Alfred Lord Tennyson once wrote: " 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Personally, I think the guy was a nut case and had no idea what he was talking or writing about. But what I think is neither here nor there, as least as it pertains to Tennyson. If you define love narrowly as romantic love, operationalized as marriage (though I surely don't), then Tennyson has been felled by science - the data show that it's just isn't true. In happiness, health, longevity, and just about everything else that has been studied (except maybe wealth), people who have always been single do better than people who were previously married (divorced or widowed). That is just a cold, hard fact.
But some people absolutely hate being alone, and no matter how much success they enjoy or fame they garner, or even money they might earn--without someone to share it with their lives feel pointless and empty.
I think you are one of those people, Missy, and there is nothing wrong with that in the slightest.
Great take on the Picture This Poetry Challenge artwork submitted by Robyn Corum.
Good work...
Dean~~>
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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Alfred Lord Tennyson once wrote: " 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Personally, I think the guy was a nut case and had no idea what he was talking or writing about. But what I think is neither here nor there, as least as it pertains to Tennyson. If you define love narrowly as romantic love, operationalized as marriage (though I surely don't), then Tennyson has been felled by science - the data show that it's just isn't true. In happiness, health, longevity, and just about everything else that has been studied (except maybe wealth), people who have always been single do better than people who were previously married (divorced or widowed). That is just a cold, hard fact.
But some people absolutely hate being alone, and no matter how much success they enjoy or fame they garner, or even money they might earn--without someone to share it with their lives feel pointless and empty.
I think you are one of those people, Missy, and there is nothing wrong with that in the slightest.
Great take on the Picture This Poetry Challenge artwork submitted by Robyn Corum.
Good work...
Dean~~>
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 20-Jan-2016
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You have read me correctly, Dean. I in all my 63 years have never been without a significant other for more than a few months... Husband or lover. Lover turned husband...lol. I am a natural born "caregiver". I am happiest when I am caring for another. Best job I ever had was taking care of Dementia patients. Not the same I guess but I loved it and felt useful.
:)
Missy
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It's nice to feel needed and wanted, no doubt about it, Missy.
You are very welcome. :)
~Dean
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It's nice to feel needed and wanted, no doubt about it, Missy.
You are very welcome. :)
~Dean
Comment from Carolyn 'Deaton' Stephens
Hi there,
I have read many of the 'picture this poems' ..
Yours is short and so full of truth..
Love can surprise you, comes quickly, unexpectantly, and can
leave just like the tide, taking part of the shoreline with it...
Or a little added twist, depositing one on the shoreline, high and dry with no love in sight. LOL
I liked it and I like your style..
:-) Carolyn
reply by the author on 21-Jan-2016
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Hi there,
I have read many of the 'picture this poems' ..
Yours is short and so full of truth..
Love can surprise you, comes quickly, unexpectantly, and can
leave just like the tide, taking part of the shoreline with it...
Or a little added twist, depositing one on the shoreline, high and dry with no love in sight. LOL
I liked it and I like your style..
:-) Carolyn
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 21-Jan-2016
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Hi again, Carolyn :)
Thanks hon for the lovely review and I "like your style" as well.
Always justafan,
Missy
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Thanks Missy....
Comment from BeasPeas
Your well written poem, written in non-rhyming tercets, likens love to a wave crashing on the shore in all it's intensity and then recedes and pulls away leaving an empty shore. It's got to last for it to be real. If it runs away, it's not. Marilyn
reply by the author on 21-Jan-2016
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Your well written poem, written in non-rhyming tercets, likens love to a wave crashing on the shore in all it's intensity and then recedes and pulls away leaving an empty shore. It's got to last for it to be real. If it runs away, it's not. Marilyn
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 21-Jan-2016
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I really need to take a class. I hate when I get lovely compliments from such accomplished poets like yourself and I don't know what they mean. IE, Tercets. Kinda like my English teacher telling me about a "dangling participle" ?????? Lost me. I love all of your review, Marilyn. I will get that class sometime this year :)
Missy
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Hi Missy. To be honest about it, I think classes are all well and good, but I'm into just winging it with self expression in our work (write what pleases us). We sort of pick it up as we go along by just having fun with it. Marilyn
Comment from JTStone
Love is fleeting...alimony is forever. oops--did I just say that out loud...
Seriously, that is a true poem. From what I have been reading from you lately, you seem to have lived it.
Jimmy
reply by the author on 21-Jan-2016
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Love is fleeting...alimony is forever. oops--did I just say that out loud...
Seriously, that is a true poem. From what I have been reading from you lately, you seem to have lived it.
Jimmy
Comment Written 19-Jan-2016
reply by the author on 21-Jan-2016
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HAHAHAHA!!! yesssss you said that out loud!!! I am gonna start rushing to your reviews...love um :)
Thanks sugga!!
Missy