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Untitled Poetry Darling, no
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Darling
You're making this so complicated-
Darling, love is so easy
It doesn't take a lick of sense,
It doesn't take an ounce of thought-
Love
Is the easiest thing you've ever done in life
Revisiting this magnificent
Revisiting this magnificent poem, I realize that it presents the great, the fundamental paradox of our humanity---Love is the easiest thing in the world, as your poem points out, and the way toward it is smoothed by both our spiritual and our erotic desires . . . but the flaws in our humanity make it sooo very difficult at times.
Starward
The poem is like an epic
The poem is like an epic journey in miniature, and I applaud that very creative approach. The emotional soul of the poem begins with endearment, then proceeds through negatives, through difficulties, demands of common sense (which Love, on any level, often defies), through the dismissal of thought (which is often the enemy of intimacy), to achieve the supreme level of the cosmic structure, which is Life itself.
This is a tremendous poem; one of the best I have ever read here.
Starward