Thoughts on love and sadness via poetry
By emptychair
@innertalks (23742)
Australia
May 16, 2020 1:08am CST
Short poems: Some Japanese Senryu
Senryu: Sadness
Sadness, resistance?
No, nothing lives to resist.
Saddened love's still love
Senryu: Love comforts all
When we forget love,
love cushions our fall gently,
not forgetting us.
Senryu: Love forsakes no-one
When we forsake love,
love cushions our fall gently,
not forsaking us.
A five-line poem.
To understand silence takes silence.
To understand sadness takes sadness.
To understand nothing takes everything.
But to understand love loses love.
Love cannot be understood.
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Sad eyes always still contain love in them.
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
25 May 20
These are lovely--I love the Japanese forms--
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
28 May 20
@innertalks Do you publish anywhere??? Submit?
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
25 May 20
Yes, I also like to read and write the Japanese forms of poetry. I like to try to fit their rules. It's sort of an extra challenge to do so in our poetry writing.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
29 May 20
@divalounger No. I just try my hand on these types of writing sites.
I have written on quite a few such sites over the years, but a lot of them have closed down.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
16 May 20
Thanks, I like to try my hand at poetry, when I am in the mood to so write.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
25 May 20
@CarolDM Yes, l agree with that too.
This idea does not apply to all learning, or to all teaching though, l think.
My mother could not swim, but she was a good swimming teacher to young kids. She never went in the water even, but she taught many to swim.
I don't know how she managed to do that, to this day.. lol...
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
25 May 20
@innertalks And it goes another step. Before you can understand and/or help others with real pain, you must experience real pain.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
25 May 20
@innertalks Life can teach us many lessons.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
16 May 20
Thanks. I just felt like writing some poetry.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
19 May 20
Thanks, siva.
Sadness is an edge on love that can be sharp and deep, or light and shallow, and yet if we keep the light from God shining on it, we will still see the underlying love that it too, is a part of.
In great sadness also can be seen a great, or a greater love.
@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
21 May 20
@Shiva49 Everything does seem to have its own time frame, but who controls the time frame?
Each time frame is of our own construction, so when we experience sadness, we can be as sad for as long as we like too, but, in the end, nothing will change, until we close off that time period our self, and allow God's fuller love back in.
Sadness is a part of love, but it is not the whole of love.
@Shiva49 (28389)
• Singapore
20 May 20
@innertalks We are prone to sink into despair when sadness is overwhelming.
It is in the nature of creation to shut some doors so that we move on to others.
Everything has a time frame including sadness and despair - siva
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