THE TERRIBLE BEAUTY OF IT ALL
Love is like getting hit with a Mac truck,
a soft smelling, sudsy bubble bath with a gorilla during a blizzard,
a warm fuzzy kitten that draws blood with its claws when it’s had enough.
Even manipulations and rages and murders arise from love.
I wonder what the world would be like if we committed to cultivating kindness, respect and playfulness within, moment to moment, and quit worrying so much about love, if others really loved us?
Love is like salt on the tongue, wind in the trees, silk to the touch, a rose in bloom – at its height, but wait for the inevitable decay.
Love can destroy and cause new life in the same minute.
It is beautiful and terrible.
It is all of it.
Love is a longing for someone out there, that someone you wish you were with
the allowing of all and sharing it.
I can’t help but lose my balance; love is the world spinning beneath my feet.
Love is like a secret that tiptoes into your heart in the quietest of moments bringing unexpected joy to an ordinary day,
a warm blanket, keeping us warm and cozy,
a hand reaching down to lift someone out of the dirt.
What difference might it make in our moments if we chose to marry based on kindness and respect instead of love?
Love is like a father who marries his daughter off, but always keeps a light on and the door open wide enough to let her know home never lets go.
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THE POETS
Christina
Brigid
Jean Marie
Justin Rielly
Janyce Brawn
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JM Roth
MEH
Jennifer Eagleton
Shikha S. Lamba
JudyW
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THE POEM
This month was a simple prompt. Participants were asked to write a sentence based on the phrase:
Love is like…
Responses were edited slightly to remove the starting phrase “Love is like…” to help the poem flow, or for spelling or punctuation
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OUR POETS HAIL FROM
Macedon NY
Pennsylvania
WNY
Hong Kong
Maine
Florida
Rochester, NY
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This Exquisite Collaboration Project is based on the Exquisite Corpse, a technique created by Surrealists in the early 1900s, in which participants add to a work with no one seeing what the other participants contributed. My goal is to encourage non-writers and artists to embrace their creative selves in a safe, supportive, “you can’t fail” environment. What began as a way to maintain some sort of connection with other people during the early days of the Covid lockdown has continued to unite strangers from around the world in creative collaboration.
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