I have asserted for a long time that while "love" is about the other,
"in love" is fundamentally self-centered; it is about how one feels.

Love is about how one acts;
'In Love" is about one's feelings.

On a related note...
The following is from a 1988 article Tracy Alexander wrote
for the newsletter "Inside I&O."

In summary, keep these guidelines ( Read more... )

katrina ( ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/literaryquotes/6617182.html

Another poem from another past relationship...

Recognition

for Michael Esmailzadeh

In talk of things academic quite some time,
A stranger’s implication of seduction
Moved hands to touch, then lips did meet. Now I find
    Each kiss on forehead pressed flows to fill a place
    Whose treasures I had not noticed drift away.
    Yes ( Read more... )

Hello.

I've been lurking for a bit.
Decided for my first post
to share my most recent poem
from my most recent (now past) relationship.

It was sent as an e-mail without any tags, and he
missed that it was a poem the first time around...

Hope you enjoy it.

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Hi, Love.

As you drove off, I was reminded
that your car's right ( Read more... )