Short Its Better To Have Loved And Lost Poems

The axiom reads
Better to have loved and lost
The lost disagree...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
When all was certainly said and done,
Wrote “Better to have loved and lost…,”
Perhaps that was the bar he crossed.

written October 12, 2021...

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From Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
 I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


From Eileen M Ghali's Monoku in Poetry Soup: August 6, 2014

It's better NOT to have loved and lost than always to remember a paradise gone....

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What is poetry
Is it merely a soft scented rose on a blissful summers day
Someone telling you, Better to have loved than lost
Or rather a delve into reality
Where the pretty appear gritty
And the point of relevant
No 1 can write
Because the words are all blurred
Who is going to listen
To poems without roses
And barmy summers days
In these cynical times...

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Your beauty gives the sun it's flame
You set my soul on fire
My heart is yours, I now proclaim
Your wish, is my desire

I dare not speak those words of love
For I cannot take rejection
Your essence pure, like a snow white dove
That casts a radiant reflection

Alas, I give my heart to you
To do with as you will
Your silence, casts an ominous hue
That makes my heartbeat still

Indeed, it's better to have loved and lost
As I tend my wounds and count the cost...

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Have you no tongue? So faint of heart? 
Go tell her there's no other 
so wonderful, and that apart, 
so very like her mother! 
Declare your hand, say it out loud 
and never mind the lingo. 
Why hide your ardor in a cloud? 
She'll be yours, by jingo! 

"Ich liebe dich!," "O, je t'adore!" 
"ik hou van jou!," " b'hubuk!" 
But when you're prostrate on the floor? 
And when she shows you to the door? 
Don't lose your nerve, or run amuck, 
read Tennyson for better luck....

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