"I'm not a smart man, but I know what Love is Jenny."

[Seraphiel Galaxy]

Is this love?

 

[Erwin Solo]

Love is

[Mollymews]

Love is to not be a hall monitor when deciding what love is 😻

[Rhonda Huntress]

Unlike this thread, Love will not survive 8 years of dormancy ....

 

 

[kathyparnes1]

What is this thing called, love?

[kathyparnes1]

oh btw, who is jenny that the OP referred to?

[Erwin Solo]

Its from the Forrest Gump Movie.  A clip:

 

[Love Zhaoying]

57 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

Unlike this thread, Love will not survive 8 years of dormancy ....

Whut?! I iz not necro Neko!

[Erwin Solo]

Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar

 

[Rhonda Huntress]

Love is a conscious choice for the greater good.

Love is trust without reservation.

Love is a weapon to be used against you.

Love is a lie.

Love is the death of apathy.

Love is a tool to fool the gullible.

Love is the creative force of the universe.

Love is life.

Love is pain.

Love is enjoying the inconveniences and finding value in sacrifices.

Love is control.

[Erwin Solo]

The alternate definition is that love is whatever Hollywood and the music industry tells us it is. 

[Amina Sopwith]

O Tell Me the Truth About Love 

Some say love's a little boy, 
And some say it's a bird, 
Some say it makes the world go round,
Some say that's absurd, 
And when I asked the man next door, 
Who looked as if he knew, 
His wife got very cross indeed, 
And said it wouldn't do.

Does it look like a pair of pyjamas, 
Or the ham in a temperance hotel? 
Does its odour remind one of llamas, 
Or has it a comforting smell? 
Is it *****ly to touch as a hedge is, 
Or soft as eiderdown fluff? 
Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges? 
O tell me the truth about love.

Our history books refer to it 

In cryptic little notes, 
It's quite a common topic on
The Transatlantic boats; 
I've found the subject mentioned in
Accounts of suicides, 
And even seen it scribbled on
The backs of railway guides.

Does it howl like a hungry Alsatian, 
Or boom like a military band? 
Could one give a first-rate imitation
On a saw or a Steinway Grand? 
Is its singing at parties a riot? 
Does it only like Classical stuff? 
Will it stop when one wants to be quiet? 
O tell me the truth about love.

I looked inside the summer-house; 
It wasn't even there; 
I tried the Thames at Maidenhead, 
And Brighton's bracing air. 
I don't know what the blackbird sang, 
Or what the tulip said; 
But it wasn't in the chicken-run, 
Or underneath the bed.

Can it pull extraordinary faces? 
Is it usually sick on a swing? 
Does it spend all its time at the races, 
or fiddling with pieces of string? 
Has it views of its own about money? 
Does it think Patriotism enough? 
Are its stories vulgar but funny? 
O tell me the truth about love.

When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose? 
Will it knock on my door in the morning, 
Or tread in the bus on my toes? 
Will it come like a change in the weather? 
Will its greeting be courteous or rough? 
Will it alter my life altogether? 
O tell me the truth about love. 
 

W. H. Auden

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

21 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:

O Tell Me the Truth About Love

 

It is not possible to not "like" a post that includes an Auden poem in it.

[KanryDrago]

Love is a mirror or a bottle

[Rolig Loon]

Just now, KanryDrago said:

Love is a mirror or a bottle

Or an unfinished tennis match.

[KanryDrago]

1 minute ago, Rolig Loon said:

Or an unfinished tennis match.

possibly, I will have to play tennis first and confirm

[Amina Sopwith]

12 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It is not possible to not "like" a post that includes an Auden poem in it.

Oddly, I am not really much of an Auden fan. I always liked that one, though.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

3 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:

Oddly, I am not really much of an Auden fan. I always liked that one, though.

I love early Auden. The later stuff gets a bit . . . uptight. And weirdly more High Church, despite his living in the US.

I was tempted to rejoin with "Lullaby":

"Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm . . ."

I adore that poem.

[Bree Giffen]

Reminds me of all those one-caption cartoons.

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

6 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

Reminds me of all those one-caption cartoons.

 

Ouch.

Doesn't look to me as though either is capable of much more than "hugging."

Poor things!

[KanryDrago]

1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Ouch.

Doesn't look to me as though either is capable of much more than "hugging."

Poor things!

just as well they are both far to young looking for that sort of thing

[Rolig Loon]

Love is sharing the last pickled egg in the jar, even when you wish he hadn't offered it.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 minute ago, KanryDrago said:

just as well they are both far to young looking for that sort of thing

If that's the case, can we talk about how much the boy's parents have to answer for, in terms of his haircut? He's going to be lucky to make it through middle school alive.

[KanryDrago]

1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

If that's the case, can we talk about how much the boy's parents have to answer for, in terms of his haircut? He's going to be lucky to make it through middle school alive.

or become one of those loner, kill the world types. Probably a psychopath in training

 

[Sylvia Tamalyn]