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Why & What

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Why must the mind confuse
what the Heart would not have so?

What Answers can be gained
if the questions are restrained?

What lesson's Learned if Experience is spurned?
(What Love is earned that cannot be returned?)

When the 'Why' is for Love and True
then it is 'What' one needs to Do

                               


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"There ain't no cure for love" ~ L Cohen

"Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell." C. G. Jung

Refer: allpoetry.com/Poem/428834

Written 1986

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  • MargaretG
    April 7, 2007

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    Yeah

    Why can't we just love the people we love, why are there so often problems? (What Love is earned that cannot be returned?) We don't deserve unconditional love, and can't earn it either. Do I want the other kind? Just when I think I'm okay, bam, heartache again. Same old same old, I survived before, and now I'm stronger.


  • MysticAngelEyes
    March 24, 2007
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    Wow does that ever make you think after you read this, nicely put, it flows so nicely, great job.


  • DenversLostSoul
    March 6, 2007
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    Very thought provoking! It was well written, and made me think each line. Wonderfully written!


  • suseann
    March 6, 2007

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    The voice of profound advice in this piece echos the message of the ages.The entire reason for existance,the great motivator that inspires our next breathe. The greatest gift life has to offer and sees us through anything it can throw at us.Is love.And you've delivered it's image proclaimed supreme in your written verse.Guru Ravi Shankar or however it's spelled would be proud of you.~~Suseann

  • Amy-gail
    March 6, 2007

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    first off i would like to compliment you on the beautiful background.. i know that wasnt your main focus but its a nice extra touch ...

    as for the poem.. i really liked it really made me think... each line was very clever

    Amy


  • LadyUnique silver member
    March 6, 2007
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    quite eloquent


  • duana
    March 5, 2007

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    ha, but I didn't read your quote in your authors comments - that would have shut me up. There just aint no cure for love

  • duana
    March 5, 2007
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    Of course I read this before, but was just as thought provoking to read again 6 or so months later. A little more jaded this time around though - your heart can be right, but if it involves another person, no matter how much you want to follow it rather than your head, you can't - not completely anyway, or in the way youb felt it was calling. Now lets see if I can applaud this again


  • Bedroom Eyes
    March 5, 2007

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    I agree...this IS thought provoking. I also like the quote in the author's comments:

    "There ain't no cure for love"

    It's very true. I'm glad I clicked on this spotlight write...poems that make me think are my favs!
    Very well done


  • Meme Wheeler
    March 5, 2007
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    Oh WOW

    This is really thought provoking...it is almost like this quote I came up with in one of my philisophical rants (lol)... "The heart cannot lie, only fear sets in to tell us different."~Meme Wheeler

    Much wisdom is in this piece you have here.


  • paullallady silver member
    March 5, 2007

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    The mind and the heart rarely agree when it comes to matters of Love. So which do we listen to? Well, to me the heart, for that is what sustains one through time. great job on this one.


  • Kari gold member
    November 5, 2006
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    deep

    Sometimes the questions are not meant to be answered I don't think lol anyway very good job on this write hun deep and thought provoking.
    Kari


  • Maatkara gold member
    May 24, 2006
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    Thank you, zt! Glad you liked this oldie.
    The first couplet was an intentional non rhymer, just to stand alone as the opening.


  • zt
    May 24, 2006
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    You ask a lot of questions here, so they must not be all that restrained. ~grin~ The only answers that you will get and feel completely comfortable with, will probably come from your mind. Your heart may ache, but it's the mind that understands and can do something about it. I liked this and found it interesting that you rhymed all but the first two lines. I'm sure that's significant somehow, though it escapes me...


  • transcendental baby gold member
    June 26, 2005
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    This is beautiful and wise ... thank you

  • duana
    August 8, 2004
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    You leave me speechless, because what response is there other than silence when words reach in and touch the very depths and essence of being!

  • Maatkara gold member
    April 30, 2004
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    Thank you, dear soul brother...I am honoured by your spirit and poetic tributes Drawn from Mother Earth and Father Sky, we will find our path, following the Light within...
    Love,
    ~G

  • skinwalker 2
    April 30, 2004
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    well done

    Lovers alone
    sleeping in serenity
    Words breathe the morning kiss
    Embraced in fearless hearts
    far away from civilization
    Deep in the wilderness
    Phantoms of the Forest

    >>"When the 'Why' is for Love and True
    then it IS 'What' one needs to Do!"

    ??? nothing ~ great piece ~ don't let the fire burn
    out ..smiles ~ Skinwalker

  • Maatkara gold member
    April 29, 2004
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    Thank you Dan, I'm going to have to become more familiar with William Blake...that's the second time (different poem) I've been paid such an extraordinary compliment by that comparison!
    Love & Light
    ~ Maatkara


  • April 28, 2004
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    Very Good

    Very good poem. The second stanza is really great - sounds like a little line by William Blake - and it corresponds to reality, I think: if we give up all these ceaseless thoughts, for just a short time, we can often see many things we would ever have missed.


  • rite
    April 26, 2004
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    When questions arise in our hearts and minds answers are unhurriedly hovering in the lap of future. Time has its own ways, for it is infinitely more complex than we are able to grasp. Time will answer when time is due - never too early or too late, always on time. I loved this poem and I am happy to have run across a tribute Myrataal has written for you that lead me here. Thank you for creating and sharing this wonderful expression. Take care,

    Rage

  • Maatkara gold member
    April 24, 2004
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    Thank you for your thoughts, Susan Perhaps I should have noted that, when I refer to Love I always mean LOVE, not self-indulgent lust in disguise, or wishful illusions or delusions. That which when known, "has no opposite". Leonard Cohen is a Christed mystic, if that helps clarify the perspective. I think Taigaku has recommended Elain Pagel's book before, Beyond Belief...And I always recommend the writings of the Christian Mystics, who Know!
    When we Truly seek, we find what's True.
    ~ G


  • SusanL
    April 24, 2004
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    it is amazing the manipulation that "love" can be. I think of the ideas of seeing the world though rose colored glasses and Love is blind. What we will put up with never ceases to amaze me. The only thing in all of this that I would disagree with is the Cohen quote. But your words I find intriguing.
    made me say Hmmmm..
    Susan

  • Maatkara gold member
    April 22, 2004
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    Hi Bill ~ Perhaps you could read my reply to the first query on that line. Think about the meaning. You are not trying to arouse my 'poetic pique' are you? Sorry, no cake
    ~ Maatkara


  • BillS2
    April 22, 2004
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    Lovely

    Hi Ma at kara:
    A lovely idea with some well thought out lines. With 2,3 & 4 rhyming, may want to look at one as well to round out the poem. Very good thoughts and you know I like your writes. Thanks for sharing this piece. Bill

  • Maatkara gold member
    April 22, 2004
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    Hi M ~ Someone worthy of real love would be able to return it.
    If I used the word you suggested in the first line, it would change the meaning. It is an intended non-rhymer . What people on control trips say is always in conflict with what your heart is telling you! That's what I am trying to say. (Did you have a mother like mine?! Mine's favourite emotional blackmail line was, 'after all I've done for you!' ) I wrote this in 1986...not with my mother in mind, particularly. Note my notes?
    ~ G

  • MargaretG
    April 22, 2004
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    Troubling

    May I suggest a rhyme in the first stanza - refuse.
    I am not getting the meaning of "What Love is earned... ?"
    The last stanza bothers me because someone was cruel to me, claiming "I only say this because I love you."
    Some of the worst days of my life were when my heart and mind were in conflict; the heart was right, of course. She doesn't love me.

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