Cycle

[Guest Myth]

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Beautiful poem, but I disagree. One can indeed be happy alone.

 

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"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base." -Fredrick Wilcox

 

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." – William Edwards Deming

 

A .44 magnum beats four aces. – Unknown

 

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H. H. Munro

 

He is one of those people who I enormously improved by death. Myth

 

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. – Winston Churchill

[The Portrait of Zool]

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Happiness comes from within. When two people realize this together, then does love conquer all.

~Zool~

 

Ancient, The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.

 

Bard of Terra, Patron Saint of Aspiring Bards.

 

Elder than dirt, more foolish than a jester, able to trip over the smallest logic in a single step. It's... Oh, you know.

[Guest Adelaide Erindale]

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First there is love

Seeming like forever

Something sent from above

They're meant to be together

 

Above cloud nine

Together it's bliss

What's yours is mine

I can't explain this.

 

Suddenly it ends

The darkness defeats light

The bond between them bends,

And breaks in one night.

 

It's gone for one,

But the other still tries;

The man is finished,

And the woman cries.

 

Relationships end;

Pain is felt.

Resolve shall bend,

And it hurts like hell.

 

Why do we submit

To the pain and the strife?

When we could just forget,

and by ourselves live life.

 

The answer is easy,

For it goes hand in hand, you see.

Without pain and anger,

Happiness can't be.

 

Life is tiring,

With all the regress.

And in the end, they sing;

She wears the white dress.

 

The flame is rekindled,

He loves her again.

But now he's been swindled,

For her heart has revenge

 

For the times that she cried,

And her heart ached with pain,

And she burned inside,

Again and again.

 

She files for divorce;

He loses it all

For, in the end,

We all take the fall.

[Guest Xradion]

        I like the poem. However, I believe that love and happiness are two entirely different phenomenon. A lot of people put too much stock in happiness in my opinion. To me, love, hope, and knowledge are more important than happiness. I would much sooner be depressed but knowledgeable than blissfully ignorant.

 

        Many people think they have found love, but it ultimately wasn’t meant to be. Struggle and argument is definitely part of any relationship, but constant suffering isn’t. "Without pain and anger, Happiness can't be." With this statement, I must disagree. I think that hate and love are opposite extremes of passion. In this sense, they are interdependent. But one needn’t feel pain and anger to feel happiness.

 

        And love is larger than just finding your significant other (though this is also obviously very important). Love is learning to empathize with all people. Love is sharing in passion and joy, pain and hardship. Love is the joy of seeing that twinkle in your son's eyes as he learns to read. Love is sharing your daughter's secrets. Love is learning to see all people as your own children. And love will usually bring happiness, but they are not the same thing. You may find love, but still be depressed at the state of the world. Anyway, I enjoyed the poem. Kudos.

 

 

 

Xradion,

The Horny Druid,

Scholar of the Ancient Arts,

Holder of the Eye of Odin.

 

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."

-Wallace Stevens

 

"When at home, do as the Homans do." –Xradion

[Guest Balladore]

Hah... all these other people made such witty remarks... all I have to say is that I liked the rhyme scheme, lol...

[Justin Silverblade]

I'm with Balladore.

 

It brings about good words for thought, but I think I'd much rather sit back and enjoy this one.

 

~Great poem, I liked it a lot.~