expression

expression

 

 

relishing the fulcrum

of love

balanced on degrees

of affection

the heart skewed

impossible accuracy

 

but close is oft

the delight

when the scales

don't exactly

match the emotion.

 

 

erin-cilberto

2/10/23

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Love and life. Can be a twisted dance Jacob. I enjoyed the poetry. You made the reader ponder many things. Thank you my friend for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Coyote,
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome Jacob.

[Chris Shaw]

Sometimes love is like a seesaw. When it is balanced I guess that is perfect. How often is it perfect? Seesaws go up and down. They always have and always will. Relationships are like that too. When one partner is on the ground and the other up in the clouds and the situation has frozen, you’ve got a problem.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Nice metaphor here Chris...your review is better than the poem.
j.

[emmajoygreen]

Seems to me that hidden in your words is a pendulum: is fine when properly balanced but put on a slant, it fights for independence1 (Returned briefly, read my review and was horrified, dont know what happened but was in a terrible mess. Now corrected, hope more understandable, sir.. so sorry.

PS. Wonder if you smiled when you created this beauty, jacob? Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and.. wisdom. Take care, sir.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I smiled just to be able to write again,
thank you, em.
j.

[emmajoygreen]

You, dear friend, will always have poetry running through your veins.. and superbly.

[Weeping willow]

Love is complicated, often like an old teter-todder. Many up and downs in the spiral of love. Mixing the emotions of love can cause beautiful rainbows to appear ;-]. Nice write

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, willow,
j.

[willweb]

The scales of love never seem to stop recalculating their balance marks and that is what makes it fun. Sometimes they tip in your favor and sometimes the tip in your lover's favor and when they end up smack dab in the middle...euphoria.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the middle, balance...that is all we can ask for. Thanks, will,
j.

[AYVID]

To me, mismatch is delightful and beautiful. I loved the fulcrum of love and the balancing act. You are full of beautiful thoughts and ideas.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, divya,
at least with the surgery they didn't remove the poetic bone...I would die without that.
j.

[AYVID]

We are all grateful for your poetic bone, my friend.

[Lorry]

And that is most likely why unicyclists exist, searching for that moment of improbable balance, that even as kids we regretted just after the thud.
And I'm one to talk. I fell out the same backyard tree three times and never learnt my lesson. I did chop it down tears later due to "disease" though, and that isn't me saying I won in the end, but it is 😊

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, you did win....and did you smile as they chopped it down?

[Lorry]

I'll ned to take the fifth on that and we don't even have amendments. We just stick with common law, if it used to be bad it still is 😊