Love Is For The Young

Love,

nonreturnable, left standing

on the sidelines.

A dark mass of jaded dreams

dumped in the corner.

Young again,

I do not wish to be

a participant

in broken promises,

lies and juvenile heat.

KMC Oct, 14th 2009

This poem wrote itself as I listened to the song :

Love is For the Young by the Steve Kuhn Trio.

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lynn a. Oct 15, 2009, 12:14am EDT

Katherine, this feels so very sad to me. Don't know that I've ever heard the song you mentioned, but it sure did cause such melancholy, or am I reading this wrong?

Human, Katherine, seeker of intergalactic life, inhabitant of Earth Oct 15, 2009, 12:25am EDT

It is what it is Lynn...words that came when I was listening to the song...My thoughts now...young love is usually so intense that the rest of life stands still, and how many young loves does a person go through? Teenagers, have youth...but also have many years of tribulation.

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Granny Janny H. Oct 15, 2009, 1:08am EDT

I was thinking today of the passions of youth and how they've changed in my older heart.
They are not forgotten.
That intensity had an excitement that is not necessary for me now.
But it did lend an amazing drama to those days.

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Marge H. Oct 15, 2009, 10:54am EDT

I'll take the comfort and warmth of an enduring and mature love any time.

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Renda B~surviving the storm by dancing in the rain. Oct 20, 2009, 2:12pm EDT

It does sadden me as I read, but I also can relate. Young love is turbulent, where as the older we are...the better we are at patience, wisdom, understanding. So I think our love(s) means more with age.

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Ruthi C. Oct 28, 2009, 7:44pm EDT

I can relate and not just when young, broken promises can happen at any age.

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sheila h. Nov 4, 2009, 8:45pm EST

That goes double for me! I especially feel you've captured the rabid ,dead end love tantrums of youth with that part of line:
" broken promises,

lies and juvenile heat."
everyone probably experiences that..maybe a right of passage..

?

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sheila h. Nov 4, 2009, 8:47pm EST

my proposal..nano for you and me??
you're not doing it?
:9
i ned to talk to you ..
we are Wayyy over due..what happened? your fault..lol..
i am goiing to work..
how about sometime tomorrow eve?

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Sheila Deeth Nov 9, 2009, 11:07pm EST

Sometimes it's just as well there's no going back.

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