what it is

meaning

does not commence

or perish

at the edge of longing

but in love

reaching for itself

Author's Note

i think my spelling error of "parish" for "perish" led many of my reviewers to think these few word had a different, and perhaps a more significant 'meaning' than it does. apologies...

Reviews

[M. Shepherd]

I love how you've personified love here - in a way that gives it the agency to exist because it so desires. That in the glorious symbiotic relationship humans have with love, it brings meaning to our lives. I've heard love described as a free flowing energy that comes and goes as it pleases, and I like that. This piece suggests babies wanting to be born or trees wanting to sprout. And that we have a choice, to slap away the hand of love or take hold of it and grip it firmly with our hearts.

[Ed Hart]

thank you dear Marcie, you always make me feel 'well read'

[alan peter kelly]

Invested a lot of otherwise valuable existential tic toc tic toc on yearning. Love is the beginning middle end.

[Alistair (Ali)]

Mate, I went to "Parish" after a few too many..France is good in the Spwing!
Seriously, though, "Parish" would lend a human boundary to this...take it to another place.
You are a good man Ed..."Why?"...because you think these thoughts....

[...]

Love is not hope, we are :) I'm pretty sure I wrote this in "Symbiosis"
Blessings are all kinds. Just like you :)

[Ed Hart]

right, 'hope' has nothing to do with it...thank you lynn

[h d e rushin]

I had a friend ask me the other day, "tell me dana, how has poetry changed you"? She not only meant 'you'
in that plural, grammatical relationship, but 'you' in that universal, truthful postulancy. "Trust me, I said,
it just makes you better".

It is the great argument for the potential of existence; being both Darwinistically infinitive while being
governed by the sovereign. Nothing else on earth does that (at least nothing man-made) and nothing
else ever will. That's "what it is".

dana

[Ed Hart]

you are the most creatively inimitable of the inimitablese

[m.s.early]

genius.......................

[Ed Hart]

there's no response i can make that will not reveal the fool

[Cherrie Palmer]

Birds of a feather :) it's a wonderful poem

[Ed Hart]

i'm glad to hear that Cherrie

[Cherrie Palmer]

People are so sure the truth of is deep and profound. When the simplicity of is usually holding our hand.

[W.k.kortas]

Well, I know you have some history with parishes, but this ain't parochial.

[Ed Hart]

i realize it is a great pretension to say large and cryptic things, but like Melville in Mardi, "Fain would I unsay this audacity; but an iron-mailed hand clenches mine in a vice', and forces me to write on...or maybe it's plain old hubris....as for those other parishes, parish the thought

[Renée]

Interesting piece, and use of "parish", it tricks the eye..
Yin and Yang come to mind..

[Ed Hart]

'meaning' is a way of saying who we are...Yin and Yang is a way of saying who we are

[J. J. Nightingale]

...that slight pause, between the beats .. reaches for...the meaning..


Smile............. Jazz

[Ed Hart]

such a smart girl...hope your day has sunshine for your heart

[J. J. Nightingale]

Hey Sir Hart .. Thanks .. ♥