Thursday, March 10, 2011
Admiration or a sickly obsession. What is love, exactly?
Love is a bridge, connecting two worlds. Love is a sea of deep, threatening water. Love is cherishing the moments that block your windpipe. Love is a deep crimson rose. Love is blood on the freeway, impossible to avoid, even when too much of a public display of adhesiveness, or whatever the heck it is. Love is that one unmistakable touch. Love is being injected with fierce adrenaline. Love is a ghost trapped in a beat. Love is sensitivity of sense during sleep. Love is an embrace of fiery ice. Love is the sting of 409. Love is asymmetrical. Love is frizzled hair. Love is curdling buttermilk. Love is an eye twitch. Love is a hand cramp. Love is a blank canvas. Love is a banner of golden silk. Love is a microwavable meal. Love is a heart attack. Love is a tangled, exposed wire in a basement flood. Love is a public fight. Love is torture in the silence. Love is a gas leak. Love is solitaire. Love is boastful freedom. Love is a cliche. Love is a stained glass masterpiece. Love is an echo in an amphitheatre. Love is a fallen tree in a forest of leaves. Love is an inside joke. Love is giving up your life to save it. Love is not dying. Love is being steps away from a door, then waking up. Love is the danger in a situation. Love is closing the window. Love is an issue gone unsolved. Love is an hourglass without time to count. Love is ultimatum. Love is alive. Love is a PowerPoint without a projection. Love is protection from evil. Love is too-sweet semisweet chocolate chip cookies. Love is a dark mystery. Love is unhindered consciousness. Love is a muffin in a field of cupcakes. Love is a balloon in a countryside of scissors. Love is a sunset after an overcast rain. Love is a cut you don't realize is there until you see the blood. Love is unblossomed admiration. Love is a fragile line. Love is sticking with a lover after a traumatic happenstance.
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I love how you said love is frizzled hair! ha you have to think about it. But it could mean a lot of things. I like it!
ReplyDeleteSome of these are so small. "Love is an eye twitch. Love is a microwavable meal."
ReplyDeleteA lot of the posts I read either focused on the good things about love or the bad things about love. I thought you did a good job of capturing the full spectrum.
Love IS a cliche. You're right. But you came close to capturing what love really is.
"Love is a ghost trapped in a beat" ... woah. I don't know what it is about this line, but, no pun intended, it kind of haunts me. Have you ever felt like when you hear a certain song that there's an unseen force behind it? Something in the beat? That's what caught me about this line. Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteAlso great job using lots of unusual images to explain love. I would have never thought to use a gas leak to explain something about love.
Keep it up!
What!?! this kinda confused me haha :P as Nelson said today in class not all teenagers brains are developed mine is not.. haha i cant get the simple concept. :P hahah but i did like it haha i like the image it put in my head and that was good!!! so yeah good job!
ReplyDeleteI dont understand what your stance on what love is.
ReplyDelete"love is a heart attack"... i like that line. it really is a heart attack... it can go both ways good or bad.
ReplyDeletegreat job! doin awesome!
Holy cow that first line was like a Falcon Punch to the face. It was really cool reading it cuz admiration was in the red part of the rose and sickly obsession was in the black part. Wicked good poem you've got here.
ReplyDelete"Love is unhindered consciousness."
ReplyDeleteGreat line. It really makes you think about all the things we block off or not let ourselves think or feel because our consciousness sensors things from ourselves.