Love isn't

for the poetry challenge on what love is

love isn't

a butterfly
to woo --

enrapture
capture
hold
fold

into you --

win
pin
rub
scrub

the powder
off her

till she can't
fly.

love isn't
anything

like you
and I

Author's Note

Reviews

[Papaya]

I feel this one K. Love is not a prison. It's not taking what makes something beautiful away, so that it can never be beautiful again.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much I appreciate it

[Papaya]

Anytime. :) xx

[Neville]

There, you are, you said it and done it now ain't that just cathartic?

Oh' well it felt good to me.

Splendid job you have done here with your highly successful juxtapositioning of fragility and beauty against what could easily be purposefully malicious and cruel or conversely innocent and inadvertent.

There are always consequences and always will be.......N

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, thank you. I like Trace's take on things. When you take away her wings, you take away what made you love her in the first place.

[MomzillaNC]

So tragic when love dies (or, in your case, is gutted by betrayal). You've shared the truth of what Love is not… can never be. But, what is Love? What should it be?

[Lyn Anderson]

Whatever it isn't. At least to me.

[MomzillaNC]

KL, that's not true. It may be ended with him -- and, good riddance. But, your love for your children and theirs for you remains; that's a gift he cannot take back.

[Trace]

I was taught as a child to handle butterflies with great care
If you rubbed the magic dust from their wings
They would not be able to fly away.

I think this is a sacred message that more of us should learn
And apply to our own life...

Trace

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I think so too. I hope against hope to always have enough of me left to fly away, because then, that means, I stay because I want to.

[Trace]

I think a lot of men feel they need to rub the magic dust from their women so they will not go anywhere
But in doing so.... they take away the beauty and the spirit of a free creature.

[Fran Marie]

butterflies are meant to be free...love can be complicated and needs time and space to grow.. a well crafted piece here...

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[Rene Salinas]

Yeah but in that context one then has to remeber that love cannot be the prduct of enslavement. It should if anything be an instrument for growth, so no party would be expected to sacrifice the ability to give or receive for the sake of beholding love. On the other hand some relationships KL thrive upon the fact that although what they have knowingly is not love they still feel such dependency for one another that in the insuffeciency of their own creation they still endure years and years.

Relationships are very complex indeed.

Thankyou

[Lyn Anderson]

You are welcome. Of course, Momzilla set the challenge of Love is, so I had to say what it isn't.:)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

let it go, and if it comes back....it will still have that powder of love on it...
and your love will have wings.

[Lyn Anderson]

In this case, it better not come back cause I will be crawling in the opposite direction. However, I get your meaning. Thanks.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and i get yours...if you try to capture the butterfly, clip its wings and put in your jar...it will hate you---and rather die than be with you.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, I know you do. You are the consummate oxymoron -- a clever man.:)

[Pryde Foltz]

That is one impressive butterfly write … first off it's original and the craft and word-choic is flawless. Sparse but full of meaning … that's a writer.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

[R Smith]

love isn't any of that and that's for sure but love is beautiful poetry and yours is, thank you :)

[Lyn Anderson]

I appreciate you taking the time.