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Shades of Love
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Saturday, August 1, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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-- Shades of Love --

John Herlihy

 

To be free of the feeling of love

Is to be empty of the feeling of love.

 

To be empty of the feeling of love

Is to miss the feeling of love.

 

To miss the feeling of love

Is to seek out the feeling of love.

 

To seek out the feeling of love

Is to desire the feeling of love.

 

To desire the feeling of love

Is to care about the feeling of love.

 

To care about the feeling of love

Is already to feel the love.

 

To find the feeling of love

Is to feel the love.

 

To feel the love

Is to love.

 

To love

Is love.

 

Herein lie the

Shades of love.

- - - - - -

(c) John Herlihy 4 June 2020


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 Reviews of "Shades of Love"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on August 20, 2020
HOWEVER ONE LOOKS AT LOVE...THERE IS BEAUTY IN IT! WELL DONE, THANK YOU, JOHN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS.

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on August 1, 2020
A beautiful poem. I felt it in my heart.

Rebecca

Reviewed on August 1, 2020
To love and be loved is the most beautiful thing in this world.

Sandie

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on August 1, 2020
From beginning to end, I enjoyed this journey of love, and all of its many shades.

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on August 1, 2020
Be love, as your poem (and many of my own proffer), is the golden reward of respecting the gifts we enjoy as sentient beings. Intriguing design to the text as it takes on multiple images of enclosure. Nicely done.


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