Love is a Verb

just thinking

Love is a Verb

looking into the eyes

needing to see a reality there

are magic moments fewer now

lost in the maze of life

we sit waiting for quality time

time that is just ours

all but erased

in the rush of a moment

the tempo of a day

a week a month, a year

the fatality of a lost love song

that fades to gray before us

we speak of love

but it's only words

love is an emotion

love is a verb..

it requires action

just as faith without works is dead

love without nurturing dies

flames dim and quiver

gasping a last breath

fading into darkness

anyone can say the words

I love you

but its action that makes them real

Its not the amount of moments we spend

but the quality of those moments

deep meaningful moments

that tell someone

I love you...

make every moment count...

bj smith

aka shallimarRose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Author's Note

Thanx

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

"love is a verb..

it requires action

just as faith without works is dead

love without nurturing dies

flames dim and quiver

gasping a last breath

fading into darkness

anyone can say the words

I love you

but its action that makes them real

Its not the amount of moments we spend

but the quality of those moments

deep meaningful moments

that tell someone

I love you...

make every moment count..."
I echo every word and line in this magnificent poem. Very inspirational...:)

[shallimarRose]

Thank you Sami.. I am pleased you found it an inspiration.. shallimarRose

[Sami Khalil]

I did...You are welcome...:)

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Life and love are both precious, we must appreciate them before it is too late. You've done some great thinking here and shared wonderful wisdom.

[shallimarRose]

Thanks Cowboy... xo Rose

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

My pleasure Rose xo

[shallimarRose]

Thanks for reading Cowboy... I posted this first on the wrong poem lol...
Yes its no fun to be with someone that just is not really there.. Absence from a relationship while you are in one is not a good thing.. You got this.. xoxo Rose

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

haha, gotcha.

[shallimarRose]

ha! its been a long day already.. xoxo

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

I can see that xo

[Brianna Brie]

This is a precious write! Ever so clever the way you titled it. Right from the start your words imply action. Kudos!

[shallimarRose]

Thank you Bri.. it is a pleasure to have you read and review my work.. xo shallimarRose

[Ian Faraway]

The third line down should be 'know' and 18 lines down should be 'words' instead of 'works'. Other than that I love this poem. It speaks true to how love should be and ought to be. J'adore!

[shallimarRose]

Ian thank you for reading... In line three the word is NOW.. momenst have become fewer now (fewer then they were before) And in line 18 the word works is correct it is taken from the scripture James 2: 14-20 "Faith without works is dead".. meaning (having faith but doing nothing with it) I appreciate your input and reviews always.. xo Rose

[Ian Faraway]

Now that you explained it I see how it fits in. Wow, it made more sense reading it out loud then it did with just reading it in my head.

[shallimarRose]

lol yes i often have to read allowed.. expecially my own stuff..

[Ian Faraway]

I understand doing it with your own works (even tho I rarely do it mostly because my words are not meant to be spoken by these lips) but I'm just casually reading this and I'm like "wait, what?" then I said it aloud and I was like "Now it makes sense".

[shallimarRose]

Well I read everything outloud because that is the only true way to feel the rhyme and meter.. Sometimes one syllable can trow off a whole poem and it may just be a matter of changing one thing.. dropping an "and" or changing a they're to they are.. For me If I am writing I need the flow and meter spot on.. OCD... :(

[Ian Faraway]

I like flow and meter to be good in my poems, also. Sometimes (if not most of the time) it's not there cause I don't speak them out loud.