What is Life and what is Love?

What is Life and what is Love?
 
 
 
it's watching the clock
 
even though you have nowhere to go
 
it's putting on a coat
 
even though it's eighty degrees outside
 
it's running and jumping in the rain
 
giving nothing else your attention.
 
 
 
 
it's never giving a care in the world
 
it's loving and loving and losing,
 
then loving like you've never lost at all
 
but all the love never makes up for the loss.

and she's always there in the end.
 
 
it's standing in the rain and kissing softly,
 
figuring out that she's the one
 
 
it's buying a ring and a fancy dinner,
 
taking her out, 
 
setting the candles,
 
buying the wine.
 
 
it's the getting down on one knee,
 
it's the tears that come after she says yes,
 
 
but most of all,
 
it's living and breathing for the moments you're together,
 
it's the moments that take your breath away.

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LadyFreeWill
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Ooh! Feels like a song to me!
Okay, down to business:

To be honest, there really isn't much wrong with this poem. There are some technical things (that I could totally overlook, given that the content makes up for it) like punctuation. I would understand not using commas in the right place if the rest of the poem was consistent to that, but it's not, so that means you gotta put those commas where those commas belong!

As for the CONTENT: I really enjoyed how you combined life passing by with love. Because that's just how it is, isn't it? I'm really glad this isn't one of those poems where there's no happy ending. I liked the smile I had by the last line. Very nice -a hundred kudos to you!

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Gg127
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Gg127 wrote a review · Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:15 am

Wow! In this poem, you have combined two different topics: life and love. Although they are related, it is confusing figuring out the message(s) that you wish the reader to take away from this poem. However, it was very visual. You did a great job of painting a picture of each of the different stages in life: kissing in the rain, proposing, etc. However, you mentioned heartache and loss in the middle of the poem, and you say "she is always there in the end". Then you use the pronoun "she" again to describe "the one" later in the poem. Maybe you could explain how heartache and loss shaped a life and makes a person more grateful for love in the end. Also, it had punctuation in some parts, but not in other parts. I would consider revising that. Overall, it was great. I could feel the emotion in this poem, and that is what poetry is about--emotion.

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PixieStix
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OH MY GOD! I was crying! It's amazing Vamp! It's so emotional and it's like you've already lived the moment! Great job! :D

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catchingwave
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Totally agree with tgirly's post! Great job! :D

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tgirly
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tgirly wrote a review · Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:30 am

Oh, I love it! So romantic and beautiful; I feel like I just watched the most emotional parts of someone's life flash before my eyes. My only critic is the flow at the beginning of the poem is a bit rough, but other than that, it's really good.

thanx! i just wish I had written it for someone special...

Wow! So beautiful and heartfelt.
I totally agree with the other comments.
Keep writing! This poem is like an entire artwork by itself.



grammar is hard and i dislike it immensely
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