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Love Can Be a Pain

Love can be such a goll darn pain A delicious delectable pain With a large helping of hugs and kisses It can just about drive you insane More than once I heard someone ask Is it really worth all the trouble You better believe it, at half the price Nothing can burst my bubble You sweat and mumble incoherently To concentrate, it's really no use Useless as dangly things hanging from a bull Totally and so udderly obtuse So what can you do if you get infected Well there's really no known cure Just dive right on in, swim around for a while You'll wanna stay I'm pretty sure Let me know how that all works out Many have tried it's well known Never were cured, spend a lifetime in love Now resting comfortably in a home © Jack Ellison 2013

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Nette Onclaud

Date: 10/23/2013 2:08:00 AM

i certainly did this piece, ken... if love doesn;t hurt, then we haven't felt it to the deepest core... wittty and gentle!..:) huggs

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/23/2013 6:15:00 AM

Well sais my dear Nette... well said! Big hugs and much love xoxox

Laura Breidenthal

Date: 10/22/2013 7:19:00 PM

Adorable! Oh how I've missed reading your work! It's good to return. Lovely one, Jack. Always, Laura

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 7:33:00 PM

Welcome back dear Lady Laura... wondering where you were! Big hugs sweet lady... hugz xoxoxox

Russell Sivey

Date: 10/22/2013 1:47:00 PM

I just love the loving hurt that love betroths to us! I really loved this lovely poem of yours my loving friend! What a love inspired piece, full of lovingly put together delightful words! Great and Loving Work!!

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 2:10:00 PM

Thanks Russell for all those kind words! You are a very faithful friend! Cheers!

Carol Eastman

Date: 10/22/2013 11:51:00 AM

Hubby and I must be getting old... we don't romp around the house any more... Arthritis in the ankles slowed me down... so we write HaHa poems galore! Hubby is definately faster than me so have Dragon get in his way... If I can't catch up must use my old bean to catch my oldster... I must say! Friskey gets a new meaning some how, as we maneuver around the room... but to each their own in getting around... as we swoop in for a little boon. The kids groan and disappear, but that's OK so soon....

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 2:08:00 PM

Can't remember the last time I romped around the house! With my bad knees, my romping days are over methinks! LOL xoxox

Harry Horsman

Date: 10/22/2013 10:43:00 AM

oh brilliant Jack,, it is something that is unique to the human race,,,, love or hate,, it is a fact of life,, like your poem,, always something in there to make one think....

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 10:54:00 AM

Those are very kind words my good friend! Thanks a bunch Harry! Have a great day!

Lucilla Carrillo

Date: 10/22/2013 10:00:00 AM

You are so right. Love does hurt, but people try it anyway. Thanks for sharing.... Lucilla

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 10:16:00 AM

It's a very nice hurt though... big warm hugs xoxox

Kim Van Breda

Date: 10/22/2013 9:49:00 AM

What a quaint and refreshing look at love, it's demises and it's pleasures. Great write Jack. Please explain the correct format of a Quatrain to me-- you seem to favor this format, and your work flows so well. You could inbox this to me if you like.

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 9:57:00 AM

I guess you've noticed, I write almost exclusively in quatrains! Made up of 4 lines each stanza (as many stanzas as you wish to write) with the last word in the 2nd and 4th line rhyming... pretty basic like me! LOL Thanks for the kind words KIm... big Canadian hugs xoxoxox

Poet Tacito

Date: 10/22/2013 8:39:00 AM

I really got a kick out of this. Though, I have to admit, there are some things that had me really thinking about stuff in the grand scale...aka...new poem to expand on this soon. Thank you for triggering this on me today.

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 8:44:00 AM

Can't wait to see what you come up with! Happy to provide a spark... I'm sure it will be great as all of yours are! Cheers!

Eileen Manassian

Date: 10/22/2013 7:37:00 AM

Kenny....You are one of a kind mixing humour with love....Sweet sweet sweet...hugs

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 7:45:00 AM

Ahhh Sweet words of love from the "love lady"... sweetness personified !!!!!!! Kenny xoxoxox

Shadow Hamilton

Date: 10/22/2013 6:51:00 AM

Jack such wisdom and truth wrapped up in side splitting humour marvelous Shadow x smile hugs

Jack Ellison
Date: 10/22/2013 7:03:00 AM

LOL So happy you enjoyed my wee take on love! Thank you my dear Shadow! Big Canadian hugs xoxox