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Monday, April 23, 2012

Love Song



It's funny how we spend our youth
in a search for Love
in the form of one other person
and, the older we get,
the more we just
fall in love
with the whole world.

Everything
has a spirit.
Pick up a rock.
Listen to what
it says to you,
then,
put it back.

Talk to the trees.
Listen for their 
whispered response.
Follow a bird's flight
with your eyes -
and your heart.

Drink it all in:
why does it take us
so long to understand:
Love is
all around us,
always,
singing us
its song.
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51 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 23, 2012 at 8:28 AM

    I liked this one Sherry, it spoke to my heart...Everything has a spirit as you have said, at times I need to be reminded that the great Spirit of Love is all around and within us, too. Very nice to follow a bird's flight with your eyes and your heart...I sense your spirit soaring this morning. Have a happy day.

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  2. DaydreamertooApril 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM

    I don't think we truly ever discover how all encompassing with us and with everything which surrounds us that love is. When young, we tend to think that love is on one person or, at best, family. So focused on the 'staying together' and surviving the rat race to do it, we forget that life is supposed to actually be lived and not survived. It's only as we've lived it a bit longer, walked through some of it's deeper struggles and have learned then, so much more to appreciate that love is 'the big picture' not the narrow one sided view we have of it but, the one that sees, hears, feels and smells it all around us. Yes, they all whisper back to us, if we are still long enough to listen.
    Beautiful once again Sherry.

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  3. AnonymousApril 23, 2012 at 9:21 AM

    So many books have been written about purpose - what we're here for - and I think it all falls out as we get older, that we're here to learn how to love, universally, unconditionally... to which falling in love with another is a sort of baby step, only the beginning.

    Love love love! this poem, Sherry

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  4. KarenApril 23, 2012 at 9:35 AM

    So very true Sherry! I think it takes a longt ime to get to this point because youth is preoccupied with itself.

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  5. Cressida de NovaApril 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM

    Being loved opens our eyes to the love all around us.It is the only worthwhile thing in life.

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  6. Maude LynnApril 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM

    This is so true! At this age, I am more in love with the world around me that I ever was in my youth. Of course, I can still take or leave most of the people . . .

    Seriously, Sherry, this is really beautiful.

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  7. Mary B. MansfieldApril 23, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    Extraordinary wisdom in this, Sherry! There is so much to fall in love with in this wide wonderful world and sadly many just don't bother noticing, too wrapped up in their quest for "The One."

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  8. Kerry O'ConnorApril 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    Oh, how I love the whole concept of your opening stanza. I love your wisdom, Sherry, and your love of the world.

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  9. MaryApril 23, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    There definitely is SO much to love out there, if only we keep our eyes and hearts open! Your poem is a keeper.

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  10. Kay L. DaviesApril 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM

    When I was very young (pre-pubescent, I guess) I loved the world, the mountains, the trees...so maybe I've come full circle. Men, though sometimes scenic, aren't as interesting as nature these days.
    K

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  11. Laurie KolpApril 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM

    Unfortunately many are too busy, out of touch, too wired (whatever the case may be) to appreciate the fact that love is all around us. I have written about this very thing for tomorrow's personal challenge.

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  12. LauraApril 23, 2012 at 10:45 AM

    While I live with the beloved of my youth and we are aging together there is deep, deep truth in your words and I find myself falling in love with this beautiful, broken, healing world more and more each day too!

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  13. PattiKenApril 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM

    Lovely, Sherry. I totally understand. Years ago, while walking around Walden Pond (yes, that Walden) a small gnarly bit of wood fallen from its tree spoke volumes to me. My fellow hikers thought I'd gone round the bend. But, then, I was older than they, and knew to listen.

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  14. Abin ChakrabortyApril 23, 2012 at 12:05 PM

    coz not all of us have ur sagely insight.too trapped and tangled with our own troubling urban realities where birds and trees are rare...and even if they are there, we are too busy to stop and note.as lovely as always Sherry.

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  15. HerotomostApril 23, 2012 at 12:36 PM

    Its the saving grace of getting older and the one true reason that I really haven't gotten to a point in my life that I would want to saty at for the rest of my life if given that choice. You make a terrific point....in the lovliest of manners.

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  16. TimoteoApril 23, 2012 at 12:58 PM

    Well, back in the day, you know, I tried to love everything (and everyone) that moved...now I'm a little more focused. Maybe I'm doing it backwards!!!

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  17. Susie ClevengerApril 23, 2012 at 2:22 PM

    Yes, how often we look for love, but miss it. There is much to love and love us back if we open our eyes and heart. A beautiful love poem.

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  18. ScarletApril 23, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    I love love your message. I think that is one of the benefits of growing older...we find that love is all around us, even inside ourselves ~

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  19. SemaphoreApril 23, 2012 at 6:05 PM

    The simplicity of it - that love is everywhere you look, in a seashell, in a leaf, in the air you breathe - is almost, should I say, miraculous.

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  20. UnknownApril 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM

    so very true, really nice sentiments in here. And I like how you subtly threw an inspirational call out there at the end. Very nicely done. Thanks

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  21. Isadora GruyeApril 23, 2012 at 9:49 PM

    I like the concept you put forth in the first stanza (Kerry commented on it first) but I wanted to let you know how strong and passionate that work was. Onward!

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  22. Adura OjoApril 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM

    Love it, love it, love it, Sherry! And I see that our perspective on love changes as we get older. Love is all around us...so true. It's the wanting to find it all in one person or thing that leads to disappointment, failure and disillusionment.

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  23. MargaretApril 24, 2012 at 6:03 PM

    Maybe we become less about ourselves as we age... I thought your words very beautiful!

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  24. Mystic_MomApril 25, 2012 at 7:40 AM

    This is something really special, really powerful...love it!

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  25. TruedessaMay 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM

    Hello,

    Well, the world can be a beautiful place if we look around there is plenty to love and experience right down to the whisper of the wind.

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  26. AnonymousApril 28, 2013 at 4:46 AM

    the idea of watching the flight of birds with one's heart... love it. Where they go and where the trees whisper - as you say: a love song, indeed.

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  27. Vandana SharmaApril 28, 2013 at 4:53 AM

    Love is all around us indeed. Even i nthe poems we write because each poem is born out of love.

    Beautiful poem.........

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  28. AnonymousApril 28, 2013 at 5:47 AM

    This is beautiful and filled with wisdom =)

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  29. JinksyApril 28, 2013 at 5:48 AM

    Wisdom comes with age, Sherry. *smiles* loved your viewpoint.

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  30. Brother OllieApril 28, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    sometime you have to let the love be seen...it is there though

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  31. Adura OjoApril 28, 2013 at 6:18 AM

    I remember reading this the first time, Sherry - and my comment above. Your words are as beautiful now as it was then. You show that Love is timeless!

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  32. Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)April 28, 2013 at 6:18 AM

    "singing us its song" awww Sherry wise, wonderful and lovely - all is connected and ever-more.

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  33. PTApril 28, 2013 at 6:26 AM

    How truly you understood and how spiritedly you have expressed
    liked it

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  34. Lisa A. WilliamsApril 28, 2013 at 6:27 AM

    So true, when we finally slow down a bit, we see the beauty of the world around us. Lovely poem, Sherry.

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  35. Cressida de NovaApril 28, 2013 at 6:29 AM

    A few odd ones like myself will always love men. If I start falling in love with trees I will know that my time is up!:)

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  36. AnonymousApril 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM

    This is lovely! And so much more so to discover I'm not the only one who has fallen in love with the world and listens to it whisper its love back to me. What a relief!Even the Breeze

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  37. hyperCRYPTICalApril 28, 2013 at 8:15 AM

    Beautiful Sherry and how true it is. The world is indeed a beautiful place if we look in the right places.

    Love loving people too!

    Anna :o]

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  38. anthonynorthApril 28, 2013 at 9:22 AM

    Beautiful words with a lovely touch of mystical empathy.

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  39. Jacqueline HowettApril 28, 2013 at 9:32 AM

    Thankyou for your beautiful poem.

    Beautiful thoughts. So glad I stopped by!

    "The tender breath of God in all."

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  40. aelfbeeApril 28, 2013 at 9:47 AM

    I do not fear getting older with this truth to sustain me.

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  41. AnonymousApril 28, 2013 at 11:46 AM

    we just
    fall in love
    with the whole world.

    I love the sound of those words.

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  42. paperdollmomApril 28, 2013 at 12:46 PM

    Love it...and so true. All we have to do is open our eyes and just pause to listen. Lovely.

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  43. alan1704April 28, 2013 at 2:50 PM

    Drink it all in - Just like you words and your emotion. Beautiful

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  44. LolamouseApril 28, 2013 at 7:29 PM

    Teach me more, oh wise one!

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  45. Rosemary Nissen-WadeApril 29, 2013 at 3:26 AM

    Ahhh! So perfectly said, so beautifully true.

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  46. TCPCApril 29, 2013 at 4:53 AM

    Wonderful and uplifting!

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  47. Stormcat PoetryApril 29, 2013 at 5:54 AM

    I always like poetry about love. This one is a simple expression of the breadth and pervasiveness of love even in those places where we don't normally look. The whole world: a gift to us as an expression of the love of our creator.

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  48. UnknownApril 29, 2013 at 6:29 AM

    So true! If only we knew to look earlier!

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  49. kaykualaApril 29, 2013 at 8:33 AM

    Yes, Sherry! Only poets are sensitive enough and are aware of little things thought insignificant by others. Nicely!

    Hank

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  50. KarenApril 30, 2013 at 2:49 AM

    I think my first love is this great wide, beautiful world! Unfortunately, I think many children don't have the same opportunity I had to just "be" in nature. It worries me that they might never hear its love songs.

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  51. LocomenteApril 30, 2013 at 3:51 AM

    To fall in love with the whole world.. How nice it would be... No one will be alone then

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