Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sometimes, I'm So Sad


My love is lost
and so it stays,
I count not cost
nor look for ways,
to love again
for I love still...

Love like light
cannot by caught,
fingers closed tight
hold naught.


~Madeleine L'Engle (The Love Letters)


17 comments:

  1. Oh dear. Is everything ok? It's lovely poetry but your title is worrisome.

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  2. Bellezza -

    I'm with Gina. I do hope everything is okay. The poem is starkly beautiful but...

    I hope things are okay.

    cjh

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  3. Sorry you're feeling down today. I do hope everything is OK and it's just the winter blues.

    The poem is lovely though.

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  4. I am with all above... I love angsty poetry that is hauntingly beautiful, but well that doesn't sound like the Bellezza I know.

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  5. This is beautiful...Thank you for sharing it with us :)

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  6. Meredith, I do so understand this poem...Thank-you for sharing those words.

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  7. This breaks my heart for you. For what it's worth, I know how you feel. And I hope your trip through the tunnel goes quickly and without a lot of scarring.

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  8. Oh, no! Are you just having a bad day or is this about something deeper? I'm so sorry. You know where to find me if you need an ear!

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  9. That is beautiful...very sad, to be sure, but beautiful nonetheless. Hope all is well.

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  10. Beautiful poem. Sending you good thoughts and prayers across the ether...

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  11. "The Love Letters" is a book that I first read about thirty years ago. It healed me from an enormously painful time when an important relationship to me ended.

    This poem is found within its pages, as Madeleine L'Engle explores love and its many facets.

    From time to time, pain over failed relationships raises its ugly head. The words in her poem always help comfort me...they force me to remember that I must accept what I cannot control, that love is often elusive but never absent.

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  12. Princess HaikuJan 27, 2009 08:06 PM

    Sorry that you are melancholy. The long dark nights of January can be that way. I hope that you feel better soon.

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  13. (((HUGS))) I hope today brings your heart sunshine, Bellezza.

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  14. I just love her!

    I have an award for you here.

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  15. Beautiful. I hope the lovely warmth of your vacation destination is restorative :o)

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  16. It's good to be back, even if it's to a high of 11 degrees F. :)

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