Your poem inspired me to write one of my own on my blog. Thank you for all that you share here.

I really like this poem. It's resonant. "Life" and the "love poem" bounce back and forth between the good one and the bad one. It was sort of nicer in the flowery phrase days, but that wasn't quite real. But, those real moments could use some flowering up once in a while.... It reads differently depending on the mood of the reader. Oh! I just read an amazing quote today! It said, "Every book gets rewritten by the reader"!! I just loved that!

I can feel you...I would have to say that my shift in perspective came when I became a mother. It not only changed everything about life as I knew it but it changed everything about me. I felt like I didn't know myself anymore and that finding the poetry was such a struggle. My son's two and I haven't adjusted yet. I get discouraged and wonder if I ever will. It's not easy to let go of the happy, romantic poem my life was and allow it to transform into a more realistic, nitty-gritty, eyes wide open, Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love and Tougher than the Rest kind of love poem, the kind of love poem that isn't all hearts and flowers but one that's about the tender acceptance of all the aspects of who I am...Thanks for your words. They're beautiful and made me sit and reflect, and ache a little bit.

might be a different kind of love poem...

beautiful...thank you.