Take a seat, and I'll tell you
Short and Sweet, eh?
Love.
Have you ever been in Love?
Love is a wall of iron
Love is a hot vile
shot into the vein
Love, is what is said
when it is too late
Love is me and this
pen,
all that i'll have when
the door hits you
on the way out.
Love is hate when
it has lost the
day's war.
Love is, as the best of us
once said: A DOG FROM HELL
Love is her on my sofa
half nude,
wild eyed grin
and ass to make
an old man weep.
Love is not a poet
or this poem
Love is the fire
that you must
hang onto,
when the dark
has all but won.
Love is a cold beer
when Love has gone
away
and
Love is a good
hate fuck when you
ask Love to stay.
Love is the echo
of the dead,
that they left upon
the page.
Love.
Love
is
all
we
got
Now, get the fuck out of here.
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Dean F. Hardy
Writer from Dublin, Ireland.
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Comments (10)
Clever poem, for sure. Really well written!
I like the bitter take on the sweet. It's absolutely honest.
Dean, I would have to disagree... Love is this poem and every unadulterated sentiment that you were able to encapsulate with this! I know you said love is not this poem but as I said previously, I'll have to disagree! You were able to capture all the beautifully ugly parts of love and make the point that love isn't what we seen in the movies, it's real and never what the fantasies make it out to be! I love your very blunt and to point sort of style that slaps the reader in the face and gives us that reality check we all need! Nicely dine!
“Love is hate when it has lost the day's war.” Damn, this shit hit me hard. I love this piece. It speaks in truths.
Mm I really loved this line, “Love is not a poet / or this poem,” I feel like it speaks to this elusive and intangible quality of love, and all the ways in which it cannot belong to us.
This felt so authentic and real to me. Love is beautiful but gritty and messy too. Bonus points for using that one phrase, lol. A very fine entry :)
My, my, my.... Emphatically & well said. I could resonate with every quickly shifting sentiment in this.
This right here "Love is the echo of the dead, that they left upon the page." Amazing words with so much truth. Great poem, just the raw, painful truth.
Amazing entry, Dean! "Love is her on my sofa half nude, wild eyed grin and ass to make an old man weep." 😍😍😍😍 Raw but beautiful at the same time. Brilliant :)
I just love the tone of this, so many clever and moving lines in here! Amazing stuff Dean!