04-03-2016, 11:02 AM
(04-02-2016, 05:39 PM)cidermaid Wrote: Two lines make a couplet of words about love.I agree with Leanne, this is really lovely, and has the soft elegance and eloquence of a Sara Teasdale or Christina Rossetti lyric poem.
They should be placed together, entwined in love.
It is silly to ally a syllable,
without a refrain. How would we feel the love?
Ali compared the pairing to a bright stone,
shining in isolation -- a necklace of love.
All I know, is that two separate clauses
are transformed by pauses, into words of love.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

