The Craft of Love and Pain

An art

The Craft of Love and Pain

There is no poetry without pain,

there is no verse without love's touch.

For these opposing forces

provide the rich milieu of thought

that stimulates the creative mind.

And we who scribe

take each morsel, each fragment,

and piece them together

like a fractured mirror,

reflecting our emotions

in, often cathartic, cascades

of bitter sweet ink.

 

05/05/15

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

without heartache, the pen would never love the page.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Exactly Jacob, many thanks.

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Well crafted, John, and well said. These emotional forces lay the foundation for the poetry we write...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed they do FT, many thanks.

[J Todd Underhill]

See that's what I am talking about... Make it about the writing nothing more nothing less! This piece was strong indeed! Bravo!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

J Todd I didn't start it, deserve it or encourage it. I know at least eight people affected by the same person. My best friend Frieda Pickle left the site because of him/her. So do we simply stand by or be accused of acting as children? Many thanks for the review I do appreciate it.