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Wed Oct-10-07 04:52 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 10/10/07 |
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"True Love"
True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own?
Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it had to happen this way—in reward for what? For nothing. The light descends from nowhere. Why on these two and not on others? Doesn't this outrage justice? Yes it does. Doesn't it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles, and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.
Look at the happy couple. Couldn't they at least try to hide it, fake a little depression for their friends' sake? Listen to them laughing—it's an insult. The language they use—deceptively clear. And their little celebrations, rituals, the elaborate mutual routines— it's obviously a plot behind the human race's back!
It's hard even to guess how far things might go if people start to follow their example. What could religion and poetry count on? What would be remembered? What renounced? Who'd want to stay within bounds?
True love. Is it really necessary? Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence, like a scandal in Life's highest circles. Perfectly good children are born without its help. It couldn't populate the planet in a million years, it comes along so rarely.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
—Wislawa Szymborska
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Wed Oct-10-07 07:33 PM
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Wed Oct-10-07 07:55 PM
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That's a total kick in the head. I love it. :P
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Wed Oct-10-07 07:56 PM
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3. Heh. Yeah, it is, isn't it? |
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Wed Oct-10-07 08:29 PM
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Wed Oct-10-07 08:50 PM
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5. watching myself and reactions |
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Edited on Wed Oct-10-07 08:51 PM by Perseid
and wondering where I go from here and why bother we had mornings with springtime colors in the sky and I wouldn't have changed a thing and I remember evenings that flowed like rivers past my mind and why bother to remember? my reactions bother me and I find myself walking through an evening I'm a river
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Wed Oct-10-07 09:25 PM
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Wed Oct-10-07 10:14 PM
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Wed Oct-10-07 10:05 PM
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Wed Oct-10-07 10:29 PM
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in San Diego with a blue bag in my hand and waited for a friend to find me without a wish or a wave of my hand stood there for a while and tried to keep a smile while worried that my friend had forgotten me I began to become concerned I thought I had learned others always disappoint me
I saw some taillights and then a turn and headlights my friend found me in San Diego
no one had forgotten me or the reason for a blue bag my friend found me in San Diego
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Wed Oct-10-07 10:43 PM
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10. kick 'cause this is gettin' scary |
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Thu Oct-11-07 12:09 AM
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11. You are too kind to my poem threads. |
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