Amare

sorenbarrett

Love comes in a whisper,

in a shout,

in the flash of fireworks,

in the slow building of layers of sediment

How can you understand

What you can not see

Can not hear

Can not taste

Can not smell

Can not touch

How then can you understand love?

It has no width

It has no breadth

It has no height

Yet you say you feel it.

Love can not be understood or explained

Nothing from this world applys

Compleatly illogical, driven by a different force

Dimentionless and beyond time

Those that say that they have lost it, never had it

It is not born and does not die.

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  • arqios

    Looking out for love in whatever manner it may choose to manifest itself, that appears to be a life quest for many.

    • sorenbarrett

      Thank you crypticbard for the read. There are many forms of what we call love some may be something else. Thanks for the comment.

    • L. B. Mek

      (your words spoke to me dear Poet
      and I couldn't help scribbling a little poetic reply of my own, thank you!)
      I truly believe that which is ethereal
      can never be lost, merely surrendered or forgotten
      thus, we may traverse in and out of love
      but that's merely a state or passage
      in time
      once we choose to love
      that love, however bitter its yield
      is a love that stays by our side
      see, people may come n go
      but the love we cultivate while at each other's side
      goes nowhere, it lingers
      in each remembered smile or tear...
      love prevails!
      that's why it's worth investing in

      • sorenbarrett

        Dear L.B. Your words are always looked forward to and valued. This poetic response was indeed so very close to what was intended in mine that I am worried about some psychic connection. I wish that I could have read it before I wrote mine, it fills in all the gaps.

      • Doggerel Dave

        Good for you, Soren. Most telling was your comment above ‘what we call love …. may be something else.’ And it certainly is not mostly what we find hanging about here.
        I have my own view of ‘love’ here at MPS:
        https://mypoeticside.com/show-poem-129135

        • sorenbarrett

          Thank you Dave for your review and comment. Yes it seems that everyone has their own definition of the word. It makes it vague and maybe it should be so. It is hard to delineate something that has few physical qualities.

          • Doggerel Dave

            Thanks Soren - I gave what was a fuller response back at my piece, which summed up might read : Why bother, get on with life, and love quite likely will come.

          • Bella Shepard

            You address the enigma of love in such a profound way, every line rings so true. I guess you could point to the biological element, and say that it's neurons firing and hormones releasing. But can you really measure it in a laboratory? You have described what is incomprehensible so beautifully, and it is such a fav.

            • sorenbarrett

              Thank you so much Bella for your most kind words. Your so right I thought of the biological potential but this is very confusing in that the very same biological responses occur in response to other stimuli as well, so I thought it best to stick to the (simple?). Your remarks are deeply appreciated.

            • Bella Shepard

              You address the enigma of love in such a profound way, every line rings so true. I guess you could point to the biological element, and say that it's neurons firing and hormones releasing. But can you really measure it in a laboratory? You have described what is incomprehensible so beautifully, and it is such a fav.



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