I no longer love you
I love the very loss of you
I grieve dry sheaves of fall
as they slip shaft by shaft
back to a rotten earth
An almost round world
swelling and struggling
with polluted passions
sent swiftly to curbs
and flowing, like muddy stream
back to their source
I no longer love you
I love the very loss of you
Your distance
makes you perfect
as a mountain flower
I have not climbed to examine
Or, perhaps I have, and I carry
that fragrant memory
of pure air and pulsing snow flowers
while at that pinnacle
I no longer love you
I love the very loss of you
Love makes such pretty pictures
in my head
of the most precious love of all
known by its absence
I no longer love you
I love the very loss of you
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this is lovely .... the way u have used words is awe-struck..
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I am one forever in love...and once loved always loved...but I understand the feeling of time dulling impossible circle, unable to breathe...and so it seems that love is lost...until I read something lilke you just wrote...and then it appears as the choking wish I though was absent...lovely scribe
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I had to check to see if I was way off basde. I thought it allowed for reader-involvement in defining that Love of Loss... whew...
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Man...it is about loss....of someone so dear that the love of loss takes its place when it is gone...
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I have read this poem several times to figure out what you really love to have lost. Sometimes a category in which the poem is placed helps, but this poem has none. Since there are some words pointing towards nature, I guess it is about nature... and then probably 'fall', but actually I am not sure. Might be something completely different. In short: it's a nice poem, but I am not really sure what you are talking about.
Anna.
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