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The Lies of Love
by Jerry Bolton

Saturday, July 28, 2012
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we've been conditioned to lie
especially about love
what is true at the present
will every so often become a lie tomorrow
the love we feel today
will be different from the love this time next year
we shout out love, love, love
as if it was something with unchanging worth
instead its like certain flowers
which die
only to bloom into a different bud

©June 29, 2012 / Jerry Pat Bolton

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Reviewed by Richard King 7/31/2012
This is so insightful, Jerry So true and so well said. Dick
Reviewed by Annabel Sheila 7/30/2012
Love in a nutshell!!! Classic ending, Jerry....beautifully phrased, "its like certain flowers which die only to bloom into a different bud...."

Anna

Reviewed by Budd Nelson 7/30/2012
excellently written my friend
budd
Reviewed by Morgan Merriweather 7/29/2012
maybe love has this narrow opportunity for Truth. Or maybe true love just stands on it own.
Reviewed by Vivian Dawson 7/29/2012
Many frogs to come and go
before the lily pad blooms
in our hearts and true love
is exposed...Lady Vivian

*Jerry* May the buds delight
your senses in full bloom!!!
Reviewed by Sandy Hoynacki 7/28/2012
This is so well spoken and hits the nail right on the head..By the way, I could hear you singing while reading about My Ole Mule...lol

Thanks Jerry
Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci 7/28/2012
So beautifully put!

Love ya!

Jane
Reviewed by Ronald Hull 7/28/2012
Man you are wise! I think that is why we men are reluctant to say that three magic words, “I love you.” If we say it the way a woman wants, we know we are lying. Thanks for the memories.

Ron
Reviewed by Odin Roark 7/28/2012
Well put. For me, again stated often, love transcends the object, yet objects supply needed reference points. For such thinking, the bud you refer to here is infinite in its metaphoric implication and value.
Reviewed by Lily of Lough Neagh C. Dennis-Woosley 7/28/2012
Love is viewed differently by all, some have never experienced it. Many long for it not knowing what it should be or how they should feel. Those who do not understand love in any form, never received it as a child and suffer the longing to know. So they stumble, try and fail many times. Only until, through our own life experiences and observation can we learn eventually the meaning of love.

I agree with Ed Matlack, love heals all wounds.

Very good Jerry

Love and Light
Lily
Reviewed by Roger Wayne Eberle 7/28/2012
...an apt metaphor rendered more apt by being ensconced in this fine poem!
Reviewed by Ed Matlack 7/28/2012
As I said to George today, & I think it is as well a good statement for this, "Love heals all wounds..." e
Reviewed by Adriaen Valerius (Reader) 7/28/2012
Hardly no one does even know the meaning of the word love. What we call love is mostly selfish and focused on self satisfaction.
Your poem reflects this in a very good way, a flower that dies to bloom into a different bud.
Thanks Jerry, a very good write
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