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In Time Mate or In Time I Date? - Love sting [h]alter-wring or sing altar ring?
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Is passion palled by plenitude,
or, consecrated, sated?
castrated by its magnitude,
once baited is abated?
Is passion passing interlude
its pride of place vacated
when self by self is too imbued -
in_time_mate intim_I_dated?
Is love pursuant to pursued
with chaste and chased related,
missel_toe issue tissue wooed?
bourgeois romance out-dated?
Is love some sort of magic trick,
or sleight of wishful thinking
which senses sweeps in augenblick,
then changes course a-winking?
Is love life's candle, wax, trimmed wick,
in time's rhyme ego linking?
fidelity through thin and thick?
complicity gone kinking?
Is Love emotion’s fiery flick
or blatant double-thinking
returned to loved-one double quick,
upon reflection sinking?
Is love light uncontested beam,
star-studded, scintillated,
or shared commitment as a team
regularly restated?
Are passion plays part of heart's scheme
[t]win-win anticipated
to foster further fondness, gleam
fantastically fêted
as variations on a theme
confirm the term related?
Or should one, wary of extreme,
prepare for fall check-mated?
Is passion part of heaven's game
Chance challenging unshrinking,
deflecting Fate from some false aim,
from former flame unthinking?
Is passion love, love passion tame,
or echo self-hoodwinking?
channelled through some karmic claim,
or opportunist skinking.
Is love self-interest staking claim
or counter Fate moves inking?
or shameless counterfeit quitclaim?
on blameless vestal pinking?
Is love tsunami torrent stream
wave pupils wide dilated
or self-delusion's mirage dream,
peer pressure instigated?
Can passion rhyme with peaches, cream,
through humdrum soar elated
to reach peak plateau, stay supreme,
joy never dissipated?
Or must Time take its toll, lose steam,
as tears evaporated?
IS Love? – if ‘tis, if ‘tisn’t - what’s the use?
Grounds hidebound logic lists sound vain, abstruse!
Author notes
See also Love: http: //allpoetry.com/poem/2595718
altar_ring altering or altar ring? halter... rope or tether
augenblick: German blink
skinking... either skinklike from skink alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales... or skin king... or both?
kinking... kinky and or curling
quitclaim: transfer of property or lien
missel toe or mistletoe?
pinking: blushing
© Jonathan Robin – robi3_0979_burg1_0002 written 12 December 2001 Parody Gelett BURGESS – Abstrosophy revised 2 December 2008 with verses 3 and 5 added 8 December 2008... intial version see below
In Time Mate
Is passion palled by plenitude,
or desecrated, sated?
castrated by its magnitude,
once baited, is abated?
Is passion passing interlude
its pride of place vacated
when self by self is too imbued, -
in_time_mate intimidated?
12 December 2001
Abstrosophy
If echoes from some fitful past
Could rise to mental view,
Would all their fancied radience sue
Or would some odors from the blast,
Untouched by time, accrue.
Is present pain a future bliss,
Or is it something worse?
For instance, take a case like this:
Is fancied kick a real kiss -
Or really the reverse?
Is plenitude of passion palled
By poverty of scorn?
Does Fiction mend what Fact has mauled?
Has Death its wisest victims called
When idiots are born?
Gelett BURGESS
Jonathan ROBIN
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i did not see an immediate connection between the parody and the subject, BUT as a stand-alone piece it is most excellent - the idea, the allitirations and (my pet peeve) the length.
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