This is a co write with Michael Meddings, the lastromantichero, we wrote it some weeks back, trying to sort out the perils and wonders of love ... and here is what we made of it. One should look at it as beeing a debate poem ... debating love ..


Love Is All. A debate in verse by lastromantic hero and Kath




Love is a mess so they say
But its a better than even guess
That those who do sway
To that point of view
Have very often
Loved and lost
Or hurt someone
They never intended to

And in the hurt lies emptiness
filling lonely paths
longing for the loving caress
words vulnerable and free
Hurt felt in darkened days
as doubt rides our way
twitching and turning time
filling our broken minds

Yet through the doubt love remains
Be it ever so true
Since of itself love is all
Hapless helpless and unconditional
It exists in isolation e'en unrequited
True love endures to the end
And returns again though lost
For true love is beautiful and empirical

So I go on loving
between high and low
seeing my broken heart mend
caressing the fragile steps
closing enemy lines
in nights of tears
as tender words fold
round my naked heart




Poetry by kath
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Written on 2007-01-27 at 22:03

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one Romanian writer said that "love is a misery, and cursed is he who doesn't know that misery..." and i relate to that and to your poem. beautiful work, the two of you!!!
Lilly xxx
2007-01-28


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Katherine

This was a very interesting debate between two virtual strangers who found it easy to talk about the perils and trials of love.
It was a unique experience for me and i thank you for testing my mind

rgds Michael.
2007-01-27