The Ons and Offs of Love

This morning I rose to a somber beginning.
I watched a season of my life pass,
And beheld the dissipation of sentiment.
I despised the junction known and unwelcome,
And I tried to discern its meaning.
Is it to repudiate love and shared existence?
By rejecting the soul’s outcry and mate,
And joining the ignorance of the mind?
Is it a faint of heart around love?
By becoming a deserter of faith in love,
And assisting a pessimist of true love?
The morn passed in contemplation,
And the dawns after filled with agony.
Nevertheless, a glimpse of hope arose.
The emanation became anew and transformed.
Its ineptness regained its stamina,
Its spine became upright and unbroken,
And its fear exited being replaced by fortitude.
Love re-emerged in the dissipated areas,
Joy permeated the rejected soul,
And the mind’s ignorance severed it kinship.
I savored the harmony of my afternoon.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009



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Date: 8/3/2011 3:09:00 PM
Congratulations on your poetry making it through round one in the PoetrySoup International Poetry contest Michele. I wish you the best in the final round. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/2/2010 1:56:00 PM
Dear Michelle, Thank you for sharing your thought evoking poetry. Lainie
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Date: 12/31/2009 1:00:00 PM
Congratulations on having your poem featured this week. A well deserved honor.
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Date: 12/29/2009 7:47:00 AM
Congratulations on your excellent poetry being featured this week Michele. I wish you the best with your writing endeavors in 2010 whatever they may be. Love, Carol
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Date: 12/28/2009 3:18:00 AM
Congratulations on your fine poem being featured this week, Happy New Year >> James
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Date: 12/27/2009 1:44:00 PM
Like the bit of hope you wove into this piece. Much for the reader to think about. Congratulations on having your poem featured. Wishing you continued success with your writing. Happy New Year! Karen
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Date: 5/3/2009 9:26:00 PM
Michele, my belated congrats in making the semi finals...Raul
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Date: 4/28/2009 11:59:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry making it into the semi finals. Wishing you the best of luck in the finals. Love, Carol
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Date: 4/3/2009 4:56:00 PM
I just wanted to drop by and add congratulations on having your poem chosen as a semi-finalist to my other comment. Best wishes in the finals. Keep on writing! Karen
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Date: 1/28/2009 5:28:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being chosen to feature this week Michele. May you have many more excellent poems featured. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/27/2009 5:40:00 PM
Congratulations on your Lovely poetry being featured this week..God Bless You*Tyesha
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Date: 1/27/2009 5:47:00 AM
Congratulations on your wonderful featured write of the week! Love, Shar
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Date: 1/26/2009 11:47:00 AM
Congratulations Michele, on your poem "Off And On Again" being featured this week. Vince
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Date: 1/25/2009 1:34:00 PM
Interesting thoughts for reflection. I really like the last line. Congratulations on having being featured this week. Keep on writing! Wishing you ongoing success. Karen
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Date: 1/25/2009 12:51:00 PM
Lovely and beautiful poem, Michele...you are gifted with the lyric of poetry! Well deserving to be be featured this week. congratulations! ~ Carrie
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Date: 1/9/2009 8:49:00 PM
wow this was beautiful, every word was in the right place and it just flowed so smoothly. Beautiful job, we almost have the same name by the way haha. Wonderful write, Blessings, ~Michaela~
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Date: 1/9/2009 1:46:00 PM
Beautiful poem and tenderly expressed, love is so complicated at times and it does take you over completely, sometimes you can be blinded by love so much that it clouds your judgement and thinking.Nicely written, thanks for sharing..God Bless You *Tyesha
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Date: 1/9/2009 1:44:00 PM
you MASTERED the language in this comforting piece and emotinns as well. it will not be forgotten and it has a place on my favorites list. be proud because only the very best get there. John H. Loving III
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