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Love Is

LOVE IS Love is romancing and always being kind, No matter the hundred things on your mind. Love is sharing a pillow or a single bed all night, Where you have to passionately cuddle up tight! Love is your husband offering to cook a fine dine meal, Eating with candlelight, and with a kiss to seal. Love is all about Birthdays and Christmas and giving, And never a thought given, to ever receiving. Love is snuggling up on the sofa and feeling warm, Whilst your curtains stay open, watching a storm. Love is to cherish and to always have trust, This is never in question, simply a must! Love is never to cry, unless with pure joy, To say ‘I love you’ and to never each other annoy. True love is Lilly white, gentle yet fiery, seductive, It is most certainly an aphrodisiac and so addictive. Love is to count on someone from dusk to dawn, And be tickled as you are about to have a yawn! Love is all about passion and having compassion, Always meant marriage, but becoming out of fashion! Love is more-some, and like sharing a chocolate, As years go by, the closer you become to your mate. Love is being a friend to the absolute distraught end, Until death do you part, and a soul now ascends! Love is forever, to please each one’s every endeavour, A more beautiful life you know, could be matched, never!

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Karen Da

Date: 7/4/2019 8:30:00 AM

Very wonderfully poetic description of the thing called love..

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 7/5/2019 1:49:00 AM

Thank you for your visit and great comment Karen, Hugs and blessings, Jennifer

Dennis Omutu

Date: 6/9/2019 10:30:00 PM

Hi Jennifer I like every bid of the repetition because it drives home the message about what love really is. You liken love to situations that prove what love is. And the advice throughout the poem is nice and makes hears feel the love. Thanks for this piece.

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 6/10/2019 10:21:00 AM

I'm glad you enjoyed Dennis - I think the simpler one describes love, the more profound it is - great that you visited. Best wishes, Jennifer.

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 6/6/2019 6:30:00 PM

Hello JenniferProxenos, yes love is all thes things. But when your husband cheats on you, and does not tell you why...You wonder what the reason would have been,even after his death. i still wonder, i was faithful he was not. have a nice evening my friend.

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 6/7/2019 7:32:00 AM

Oh I'm so sorry Darlene my dear friend, that is horrible - it's never too late though - you sound like a wonderful giving loving person - hope things change around for you! My husband and I went out in our twenties, and then drifted apart, each got married, had a son, got divorced and met up again in our forties and got married almost immediately -Hugs, Jennifer.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/13/2019 3:11:00 PM

sweet couplets on love . This kind of love is romanticized but we can always imagine how nice it could be!!

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/14/2019 12:41:00 AM

Thanks for a great comment my friend - romance is beautiful its not all about declaring your love for one another (yes absolutely that too) but it is having fun and being tickled in the morning as you wake up, it is watching a storm cuddled up on the sofa with the curtains open or watching 3 episodes of a great series on TV, and when your husband goes out into the garden to find the first spring flower and gives it to you! Maybe because it is the second time around with both of us and both in our mid forties when we got married, explains a lot about our romance. Hugs, Jennifer.

Alkas Poetry

Date: 5/13/2019 5:36:00 AM

Dear Jennifer, your poem is an open letter of love... congrats salute alkas.

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/13/2019 8:19:00 AM

It's the little things in life and love that count - like sharing a pillow or a single bed, or together watching a storm - glad you enjoyed it Alkas, Hugs, Jennifer.

CayCay Jennings

Date: 5/13/2019 12:31:00 AM

An absolutely beautiful testament to true love, each couplet embracing its meaning in eloquently penned imagery. Ah - you delivered the love we all dream of knowing and well-earned my heart's whispered sigh! Poetry hugs ... CayCay

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/13/2019 8:17:00 AM

I wish all my friends the love I re-found, for Elias and I were going out in the seventies - silly youngers and we let each other slip away - shows that fate and soulmate do exist! Hugs dear friend, Hugs Jenny.

Arturo Michael

Date: 5/12/2019 9:06:00 AM

Love is everything and more...Nice vibes in your write...apart from the lovely words...lovely feelings...

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/12/2019 11:54:00 AM

It sure is Arturo - just things that lovers and partners probably all experience. Thanks Arturo - loved your comment. Hugs, jennifer

John Gondolf

Date: 5/11/2019 3:34:00 PM

Jen, I enjoyed reading your beautiful thoughts on love. Love is such a beautiful emotion. All the best. John

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/12/2019 11:46:00 AM

It's a like butterflies in your tummy, or like a roller coaster tumbling with passion, its just so many emotions and feelings, and it's beautiful discovering them with the one you love! Thank-you John for an awesome comment, Hugs, Jennifer.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 5/10/2019 6:37:00 PM

Was this lovely poem for the contest? I don't know his rules as I didn't get to write a poem for Silent's contest. This certainly would have been a winner. I love the sweet sentiments you put into this poem like enjoying the rain through undrapped window and being tickled before you can yawn. You know what is important in love Jennfer...like trust and truth. Beautiful! : ) xxoo

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 2:28:00 AM

Yes we both do Connie and we both feel blessed to have such dear, dear husbands. This love between husband and wife is not something that is found everyday, one has to experience it from the start. Love your comment and understanding of it. Blessings and hugs, Jennifer.

Nette Onclaud

Date: 5/10/2019 12:29:00 PM

aside from poetry, your best gift is to inspire me by showing the many runes of love, jen... amazing!...huggs

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 2:12:00 AM

Thank you Nette for an awesome comment, but your poems are in turn inspirational for me - I could never capture the beauty and serenity you artfully do in your poems. Blessings and Hugs Jen. xx

Paul Callus

Date: 5/10/2019 8:40:00 AM

A very lovely poem, Jenny! It reminds me of the Perugina Baci....when you unwrap them there are little pieces of paper inside, each with a short note about 'love'. These couplets of yours can be used as such! ~ Warm regards & Hugs // paul

Paul Callus
Date: 5/11/2019 8:28:00 AM

Perugina Baci are Italian chocolate: Pls try this link, see if it works: https://www.google.com.mt/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjw5pzvyZPiAhWsM-wKHQC-AkMQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baciperugina.com%2Fus%2Fproducts%2Fbaci-milk&psig=AOvVaw0JDkA9vEmIjspE2W49KcLv&ust=1557667528216369

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 2:09:00 AM

Not sure what the Perugina Baci is or are, are they like fortune cookies? Thank-you Paul for a heartfelt comment, and as always thoughtful and pertinent. Warm regards and blessings, Jenny

Joseph May

Date: 5/10/2019 4:26:00 AM

Love is all of that and more...Wonderful write Jennifer..

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:50:00 AM

I Certainly agree with you - love is two hearts beating as one - lovely comment Joseph. Hugs, Jennifer.

Besma Riabi Dziri

Date: 5/10/2019 4:25:00 AM

Love is a beautiful soul dipped into passion and compassion.. a heart wide open to humanity.. a mind ever profound to understand life complexities.. a Self striving to transcend what of hate shackles the soul.. a beauty deeply aware what to her is granted but does not take for granted! Dear Jennifer, an immense pleasure to start my day reading your wonderful feel and vision of Love.. you have put your sweet heart into an amazing piece of art! In my fave list. Stay always blessed.. Love and hugs

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:46:00 AM

Besma my friend, you have been blessed with intense poetic talent, but furthermore you have the ability to immerse yourself into everyone else's poetry and almost read our souls - you are gifted, I'm sure the fact that you must be an outstanding teacher has not gone unnoticed by both pupils and parents and of courby by the rest of the staff at your school. Hugs and blessings. Jennifer.

Panagiota Romios

Date: 5/10/2019 12:29:00 AM

Jennifer..a terrific poem in all ways, Mind if I FAV it?..LOL Goid night from CA, Panagiota

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:29:00 AM

Thanks Panagiota, terrific comment, and I would be absolutely honoured if you saved as a fave! Hugs, Jennifer.

Charles Messina

Date: 5/9/2019 7:36:00 PM

Well, if this isn't love...than what is. So charming Jennifer. Lovely write and so well put. BTW, thank you for stopping by. So much appreciate it. Have a nice evening....Hugs ~Charlie

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:27:00 AM

Thank you for an awesome comment and BTH I intend to stop by more often as I and truly enjoy your poetry! Maybe and if you have time time read my poem in December 2000 we said I do. Hugs, Jennifer.

Vijay Pandit

Date: 5/9/2019 6:41:00 PM

So well described, Jennifer..love is as you say it is..enjoyed the read.

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:19:00 AM

Wonderful that you enjoyed Vijay - they say the older you are the harder you fall - well this happened to us - I think you have read my poem in - December 2000 we said I do - every bit is true, right up to day - I thank God for this blessing! Hugs, Jennifer.

Tom Cunningham

Date: 5/9/2019 3:15:00 PM

You've covered every bit of love that exists Jennifer, so well written. Tom

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:14:00 AM

Thank-you Tom, it was easy to write this poem as it is all true. Our marriage should have taken place in the seventies, but both still young and stupid - if you wish go to my poem - In December 2000 we said I do - Hugs, Jennifer.

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 5/9/2019 2:36:00 PM

Every bit of this is perfect, and exquisitely written. I was going to highlight my favorite parts but ended up highlighting the entire poem. So it is a FAV.

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 1:07:00 AM

So glad you enjoyed the poem Caren - i waited 2 days watching and paying great attention to the relationship between my husband and myself, and i think that because we probably got married the 2nd time around, and our previous marriages were both a disaster, we became best friends as well as lovers! We were also far more mature and i was so lovestruck with his kind gentle ways, that our marriage blossomed into the understanding yet loving relationship that I treasure today. I don't know if you have read my poem, In December 2000 we said I do. Hugs, Jennifer.

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 5/9/2019 2:06:00 PM

- Love is all that you write about, my dear friend Jenny .... and much, much more :) - Beautiful poem :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/11/2019 12:56:00 AM

Love is beautiful, but it isn't all romance, its the little things that you want to do together that count - your husband or partner or wife should also be your best friend! Thank you dear Anne-Lise for a lovely comment. Hugs, Jennifer.

Jack Horne

Date: 5/9/2019 1:37:00 PM

a lovely & loving write, my friend

Jennifer Proxenos
Date: 5/9/2019 1:56:00 PM

Thank you for a great comment Jack and for being the first to comment. Hugs, Jennifer.