Love

May the Lord Bless you and Keep you all the days of your life.

Becky

If size were what life were about

then we would not matter a bit

Not to the thoughts that man can dream

nor all the sins he could commit

Our mind is what gives us value

sensitive beyond it's design

Compassion and love will endure

in both your children and in mine

This little blue planet of life

the only home that we know of

Holds us in it's loving embrace

as here was born every love

No matter what life can collect

nor how long life grants you in time

Why would it matter to the earth

or to the heights of mountains you climb

Humanity won't remember 

the man who commanded his friends

Only he who gives hope and love

so that life on earth never ends

Author's Note

Can a thought or feeling be larger than a universe? Love is the only trait that is worth remembering because it is meant to be given away selflessly. The recipient is as happy to receive it as you were to give it!

Reviews

[Leigh]

Hi Tate,

If all your neutrons were connected together and engaged at the same time they would be able to create a thought sequence far greater than the size of any universe known to humankind. Your deep thinking mind has stirred the pot and may well bring many others into action and this in itself may start a chain reaction.

Your poetry is a catalyst for other poets and I am always interested in what you have to say

Leigh

[Tate Morgan]

Leigh I am extremely humbled by your thoughts. Thank you so much I hope you have a great Christmas

[VALORMORE DE PLUME]

A lovely sentiment from the bright light that shines from within you.

[Tate Morgan]

thank you valormore

[VALORMORE DE PLUME]

You are most welcome my friend from the state that is hi in the middle and round on both ends.

[Honey-Bee]

Lovely! Love the last line too. Only he who give hope and love

[Tate Morgan]

thank you for this i am sorry it took so long to respond

[Cindy Baker]

Very Beautiful- Your words speak of love and simplicity and are of greater value than any review i could give..Excellent Poetry

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Cindy so much. may you have a great life

[Robbie~xoxo~]

We are but a speck in the universe, but faith is larger than life... if you put your faith in humanity, (faith in love), anything is possible. Wonderfully penned, Tator Tot! xx :)

[Tate Morgan]

Can a thought be larger than a universe?

This little blue planet of life

the only home that we know of

Holds us in it's loving embrace

as here was born every love

Thank you

[Robbie~xoxo~]

I believe so....Beautiful thought...

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

With out love the universe would be void this is very beautiful and I do agree with all you say

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Chloe And we all love you too.

[Chloe..Across the Universe]

You're welcome Tate it's good to be loved

[mcg03002]

I really like this piece, Tate...and, I have to agree with Marie. While Rick wrote you a very insightful and valuable review, I believe he missed the point of this poem entirely. You are expressing how incredibly important and complex small things can be. Human beings, specifically, are tiny, even inconsequential when viewed from the cosmic perspective. We scurry around this relatively small blue planet which orbits an average-sized star that hurtles around a not-so-gigantic galaxy within an almost incomprehensibly enormous universe...and yet, we ourselves are just as fantastically complex in our smallness as the universe is in its enormity. I read a wonderful article the other day that was posted on NPR's website. It talks about the human brain and states that it "...contains some 100 billion neurons, which together form a network of Internet-like complexity." Christof Koch, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, calls the brain "the most complex object in the known universe," and he's mapping its connections in hopes of discovering the origins of consciousness.
I am with you. Our value as a race doesn't come from our size...because we are like tiny specks of dust in a universe that's larger than we can even comprehend. Our value certainly isn't in our strength, since we are at the mercy of all the natural forces at play within the cosmos. Truly...we are valuable, special, and important because of our ability to think, perceive, love, create, and remember. We are valuable because of those things we can do as a result of the amazingly intricate and beautifully- designed mind that we carry with us everywhere we go.
Great write! Thanks for sharing.

[Tate Morgan]

Now that is a review worthy of a frame. Thank you

[Marie]

I have read the review Rick Puetter gave this poem, and though he is a thousand times smarter than I am, I have to disagree with him. I believe we are indeed "complex beyond any desigh"; we are not weat and simple. I know we are small, but we are not inconsequential. That power which made us did not make us to be inconsequential.

[Tate Morgan]

While I often would defer to Rick on matters of science I am sorry to say I can't this time as you say we are not inconsequential what Rick is referring to is the mind developing layer upon layer throughout the eons however simply constructed it may be the resulting structure has passed the barrier of becoming sentient and with that has developed to the point where I believe has become than the sum of its parts

[Andy Ruffett]

The Earth won't remember you, but you'll remember the Earth. Love won't remember you but the love you give will be remembered by you and the recipient. So love and love the Earth because when we die, the soil should be rich with love.

[Tate Morgan]

I like that and so I say may we all fertilize the thought that we are one

[Cranky Old Bear]

So Beautiful my friend :)

[Tate Morgan]

Hi thank you for the review i suppose this is the moist beautiful poem I ever created.

[Cranky Old Bear]

It is indeed.. but then I have not seen them all :)

[Tate Morgan]

thank you
I hope in time you find the others as deserving