Exquisite ache
arch of heart
back of lover
leaving
eyes of child
closing
last breath of father
going
mother’s last afghan
fraying
fall down pain
knife to fingers
splayed like useless grasp
ecstatic break of heart
by joy
Author notes
I know what I have not but what I had.
Prompt: how you define love.
A contest entry
- 24 hr Quickie......Define Love in 15 lines by poet2angels.
475 points, ended October 7, 2007, 13 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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WOW
SO much emotion from your words pouring love from each syllable...
SO beautifully done...
Lynda
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I guess I am one who has learned that love is what I had and I seek its replacement and relative everywhere in the world. ty so much.
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nice.
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We are a flood of images and love the light around them as we remember that sudden lift of joy that made our heart twice its normal size. Nicely done my friend.
Love, Tom B.
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such a nice comment, tomisb. True..it surely does.
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"ecstatic break of heart
by joy"
Chills, my Sister. I know this one well. I look at it like this: something once gained can never be truly lost. Good luck in the contest, Sweetie. 
Wanda
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That is true gf.... we hold that memory like a candle, a lanturn by which we view all others...
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