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NO LOVE FOR LOVE

I shall go quietly
albeit with my chains
released into the ethers
without pleasure, without gain.

Dissociative dimness
dumbs down the mind
Indifference is Nature's way
of release, from the unkind.

No love for love
given freely over time
No pity for this fool
who's passion proved the only crime.

BB 19 November, '10

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Not actively editing

About the Author

Region, Country: Tip of Southern Africa, ZAF

Favorite Poets: Too many to narrow down, but briefly :, AUDEN, T.S. ELIOT, DICKENSON, RILKE, THOREAU, RUMI ... the list is endless. Am inspired by many, especially those that live lives of "quiet desperation, and go to the grave with a song still in them" (THoreau)

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Bonitaj

Bonitaj

14 years 7 months ago

Thanks

Shirl and Lonnie! Nice that this piece cuts both ways - ie. both genders. But isn't the loss of love an experience for either?
Thanks for the read and the compliments!
Cheers

TheUnknownAuthor

TheUnknownAuthor

14 years 2 months ago

Bonitaj

I'd not have a life without passion, and I'd neither wish it on anyone else. But I understand that life must be balance, as you put it in Nature's way.
This is a beautiful write. Not catering to what others might want, but simply stating what you feel. There can be nothing wrong with that.

Hehe! And while Lonnie may be somewhat right with no good deed going unpunished, I also am somewhat of a romantic, and somewhat of an optimist:) So let us say that no good deed deserves punishment, and that the world shall rectify what has been wrongly done.

Yours

Waldo

judyanne

judyanne

14 years 2 months ago

nice write

'Dissociative dimness
dumbs down the mind' - great alliteration boni

i very much enjoyed this
i especially liked the lines
'Indifference is Nature's way
of release, from the unkind.'
- so many cut themselves off when rejected.....

one small thing....
'who's passion proved, the only crime.' (i don't think you need the comma)

love judy

S

scribbler

14 years 2 months ago

hello

It is unfortunate that there are givers and takers. It is even more so when the giving is one sided. Enjoyed the read and unobtrusive rhyme. Did not catch it until I read Judy's comment, but now wonder if who's should be whose. I'll leave it for you to decide...............scribbler

K

Kailashana2

14 years 2 months ago

How could I not read a poem

How could I not read a poem with love in its title?

You have served it well with this poem, Boni,

~A

p.s. I also would remove the comma though I would not separate into 2 lines.

Bonitaj

Bonitaj

14 years 2 months ago

I LIKE IT!!

The suggested edit - and of course the praise from such as worthy as yourselves!
Thanks guys!
Boni

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

14 years 2 months ago

Oh charming song Bonni

Oh yes judyanne saw immediately
the same thing as myself
but I call it the music of this poem
it is so full of rhythm and sounds
that trip along through the mind in such a happy manner,
I too like it very much
and will come to it
as one comes to a favourite song
to listen to.

I even think another comma can go between release....form the unkind.
as the hesitation becomes too long.

Luv Ann.

Bonitaj

Bonitaj

14 years 1 month ago

Oh Ann

You are always so complimentary - it's a pleasure to have you on my page! ;)
Thanks
Boni

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

14 years 1 month ago

when I mean it

I'm only complimentary when I mean it and I meant it here.
Love to you wherever you are, Ann.

M

magics02

14 years 1 month ago

Boni

I liked this self poem and how you used your own expressions of words to tell a story here. I read it twice and sorry I see nothing to change or submit as far as a critique. It spoke to me and that is enough for me to say this is a well written prose.

Smiles at you girl
Mona