This Love

[PrinceMyshkin]

To...the one!




This love
is not that love,
is not exactly any other love,
is not demonstrably
more or less great
than every other love

but this love
is only and precisely,
uniquely and blessedly
this love.





Jerry Newman © 13Nov07

[browneyedbailey]

Heart touching. I think I can somehow relate...

[blazeofglory]

To...the one!




This love
is not that love,
is not exactly any other love,
is not demonstrably
more or less great
than every other love

but this love
is only and precisely,
uniquely and blessedly
this love.





Jerry Newman © 13Nov07

Very beautifully written and of course this has somethig to do with what it is at its base, the very basis of love.

[AuntShecky]

I liked the brevity of "this" and the ambiguous voice--
half-earnest and half-arch.

And I immediately thought of Sonnet #130.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I liked the brevity of "this" and the ambiguous voice--
half-earnest and half-arch.

And I immediately thought of Sonnet #130.

Phew! Close call! I'd have hated to read that it reminded you of 129!

[Sweets America]

I love it. ;)
I like thinking also that each love is different because each partner is different, each relationship unique. Comparisons would be senseless, even if we are sometimes tempted to make them.

Thank you.

[white camellia]

I like the thought and the way of presenting it (coherent and beautiful). Quite dialectic, it seems that love is, both the basis for being considered love, and the uniqueness of every love.

[Xillus_Xavier]

I liked it...especially the last line.

[blazeofglory]

To...the one!




This love
is not that love,
is not exactly any other love,
is not demonstrably
more or less great
than every other love

but this love
is only and precisely,
uniquely and blessedly
this love.





Jerry Newman © 13Nov07


I read this poem a second time, and I like it and I guess I got it more than the first reading.

Maybe the poet is totally right to say thie Love, for love is love and no two people live exactly and no books can give the exact definition of it, and love is love and nothing else. No poet can define it and no philosiopher can confine it in his philosophy.

I think this is one of the best poems ever written on love.

[Sweets America]

I read this poem a second time, and I like it and I guess I got it more than the first reading.

Maybe the poet is totally right to say thie Love, for love is love and no two people live exactly and no books can give the exact definition of it, and love is love and nothing else. No poet can define it and no philosiopher can confine it in his philosophy.

I think this is one of the best poems ever written on love.

Wow, what a nice comment! This is true that love cannot be defined, and this is what makes it so mysterious and interesting.

[ampoule]

To...the one!




This love
is not that love,
is not exactly any other love,
is not demonstrably
more or less great
than every other love

but this love
is only and precisely,
uniquely and blessedly
this love.





Jerry Newman © 13Nov07

and i of course love it!!

[PrinceMyshkin]

and i of course love it!!

Will you permit me to exult a bit with you re this poem? Thank you (I mean, how would you have stopped me anyway?)

I was all too aware that the poem lacked virtually all the things one expects from a poem: imagery, meter, rhyme, music... but that was what finally I liked about it. Was it or was it not a "poem," according to anything like an official canon? No, but it felt to me like a naked, honest statement...

As if you and I had been walking somewhere and I bent down, picked up a pebble and held it out to you.

"Look at this," I might say. "How ordinary it is! There isn't a single remarkable thing about it, neither its shape nor its colour nor its geologic composition. It's just... a pebble!"

[ampoule]

Will you permit me to exult a bit with you

Well, gee, I don't know. Is that something we can do on a public forum? ;) :D

[CdnReader]

<sigh> ;)