May-December, like the months, should not be found
holding hands or walking side by side in time.
Cynics then insist December’s just a hound
or perhaps a cougar longing for her prime.
May – small minds assume – is playing for the pay:
one so lithe and firm could not desire to be
partnered with a form so far beyond its day.
Trading flesh for cash is all the vulgar see.
May-December’s happiness disturbs and stings
petty, prudish people peeping through their blinds.
Jealousy and envy whisper nasty things:
words of gossips spewing filth from dirty minds.
Heedless, hearts may meet in love across the years,
knowing, hardly caring what the cynics think.
Love that’s true ignores the dirt of petty smears;
acid tongues may never sunder such a link.
Life is not a month or season marked in time,
nor is love decreed by coinciding age.
Finding love at any age is grace sublime.
Love is timely when two hearts in time engage.
In December, in the month of May, we live.
For this season winds of love have blown our way.
Life in time is all the time we have to give.
Night will come in time; for now we have the day.
In a list
A contest entry
- Love, Love, Love by Wolven Roses.
700 points, ended November 27, 2008, 14 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Pre-Written Rhyme Anyone? No Trophies by piccola.
900 points, ended January 28, 30 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Night will come in time; for now we have the day.
I love that line ... it means so much to someone in the twilight of the day. Nice job and thank you for entering. -
good natural flow of rhymes, good choice of metaphores. thanks
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just wow
you are such a good poet! you are so talented, the way you use this rhyme scheme is amazing, i have tried a few times and a lot of it seems very forced, but yours doesn't at all, it all flows, it all works, it blows my mind!
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This is a refreshing love poem. Most love poems I read are from teans suffering in highschool. Neat use of vocabulary, it is some what interesting to see that you compare both months side by side. I would of never though of that. I am still young. Your composition is also interesting, it's short, sweet, and well sounding. Your good at writing poems.
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Thanks, and this is a refreshing comment. You noted elements of content and of technique along with something of how this affected you. Very rewarding!
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