Love

LOVE

Love can be defined as a feeling of deep affection
for someone or a great interest in something 
enjoyable and in much simpler word, passion.
For passion is a strong feeling, emotion or liking.

Yet, there is also difference in love and passion.
Passion is intense feeling and love is tender feeling,
more deep and lasts longer and expresses itself
in action, the feeling is reflected to the deeds.   

Love comes in different types and the first type
would be the love of parents for children, storge.
Storge could be followed by agape, the love of
mankind, if the child is taught to love others.

Then there is philia, the love of friends and equals;
loving siblings, cousins, best friends and friends.
Sometimes eros, the erotic, passionate love comes
early, known as romantic love between two people.

Love can bring happiness and joy, feeling content
or satisfied for being “loved” and for giving love.
Love can cause sorrow and pain for love hurts.
Broken heart actually hurts, deeply feeling the loss.

Love can affect a person tremendously for love
cannot be shown by words alone, it has to be
expressed in action, wherein, the loving feeling
is reflected to the deeds, to feel and act lovingly.

Love is a feeling that is enacted, feeling wedded 
to the deed and unfortunately, love is expressed
in words with no action, no warmth at all from a
cold soul, just like an obligation or with cruelty.

So this meaning of love is being passed on from
generation to generation, the wrong conception.
Love can change lives for the better when it is
meaningfully expressed in words and loving deeds. 

3/1/22     G - Give Me A New Poem - Any Form Poetry
                Constance La France

Theme:     #1 - Love

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Sara Kendrick

March 14, 2022 at 3:33 AM

I have read your winning entry and was delighted to see it on the winners' list. Congratulations on your place of honor. Way to go. Sara

Marilene Evans

March 14, 2022 at 12:39 PM

Sara, thank you so much. Love is so simple; yet we make it so complicated with expectations, with jealousy, insecurities and so on.... Thanks, again. Blessings to you.

Constance La France

March 4, 2022 at 1:30 AM

Marilene, congratulations on your win in my Give Me A New Poem Contest ~Constance

Marilene Evans

March 4, 2022 at 6:29 AM

Thank you for my placement. Blessings to you. Have a great day.

Sam Kauffman

March 1, 2022 at 3:36 PM

Marilene, you really covered the water front and tied everything up with your last stanza. Very love-ly! This could only come from a heart that has spent a lifetime exploring love's terrain! Best wishes for the contest. Blessings to you.

Marilene Evans

March 1, 2022 at 6:23 PM

Yes, since I was a child I questioned the lack of love from my own mother, her coldness to me. I was fortunate to feel loved and given unconditional love by her sister, who raised me. I see a lot of dysfunctional relationships that affects everybody in the family and maybe could be avoided with the true meaning of love.

Malabika Ray Choudhury

March 1, 2022 at 10:16 AM

"Love can change lives for the better when it is meaningfully expressed in words and loving deeds. " - profound expression, Marlene. Makes ponder about so many relationships - Love, in all forms, is divine. Best wishes ~ Mala

Marilene Evans

March 1, 2022 at 6:05 PM

I know, there are so many dysfunctional relationships affecting the children and their relationships when they grow up. Sometimes a vicious cycle. Thanks, Mala! Blessings to you.