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One Art

The art of loving isn’t hard to master
So many things seem filled with love.
To be lost in a love forever.

Love more everyday. Accept the disaster
Of a lost mind hours thinking of your love.
The art of loving isn’t hard to master.

Then practice loving farther, loving faster
People, and places, and who it is you have to love. 
All of these will bring us together.

I lost my heart, And look! My forever
Next-to-last, of my love went.
To be lost in a love forever.

I gained hope, a lovely one. And faster
Some realms I owned, I will always have hope
I love them, and it will be a forever.

Even loving you, a great gesture
I shant have lied. For I hope
The art of loving isn’t hard to master
Though it may look like a great disaster.

(Based on the poem One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, this was a project in creative writing)

Copyright © Jessie Melanson | Year Posted 2015

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Dorian Petersen Potter Date: 2/14/2015 12:53:00 AM Very nice pen Jessie! I enjoyed your poetic piece very much, my dear friend. You did an amazing job with this villanelle. I like it a lot in content and format. A 7 from me! Have a very lovely evening! In his light! God bless you! I wish you a very happy Valentines Day! :) Love n hugs! xxx D. Login to Reply

Jessie Melanson Date: 2/13/2015 8:29:00 PM If you look up the original poem One Art by Elizabeth Bishop You can see the original and the changes I put into it. Login to Reply

Njeri Hunjeri Date: 2/13/2015 8:25:00 PM I like the lines "the art of loving isn't hard to master Though it may look like a great disaster" Login to Reply Jessie Melanson Date: 2/13/2015 8:28:00 PM Most of that is from the original author, I Changed the 'losing' to 'loving'. This was a project where we have to keep the original poem but had to change it in some way, I changed quite a bit of it but used some of the lines. That is why I credited the original author because this is not all my work. :)