Love Is Off Limits November 17, 2011
Posted by nrhatch in Humor, Poetry, Word Play.trackback
Laughter is wonderful
Marvelous
Magical
But joking about love is wrong
It’s fine to joke about other things
Anything at all ~ go for it!
But not love
Love should be off limits
Writing satirical love poems . . .
Well, that’s just crossing the line
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Spirit Lights The Way 
But I’ve spent so much time researching ridiculous things that rhyme with blue!
🙂
Well, then, you must be an artist and follow your own rules. 😆
True love is too deep an emotion to mess around with for the simple sake of fun. But joking amongst lovers is totally OK 😉
A serious and angst ridden “poet” shared this “rule” with me some time ago . . . when he perceived that I had stepped over some imaginary line into the underbrush of impropriety. 😛
LOL 😀 Keep stepping, that way we all stay alert 😉
I don’t know why this tickled my funny bone today . . . but I just can’t stop laughing.
Loved reading this 🙂 it’s so very true
Glad you enjoyed my tongue-in-cheek look at satirical love poems. We shouldn’t take anything in life too seriously . . . we’ll never get out of it alive. 😛
To hold love is a sacred package. You are right, Nancy.
I just finished reading a book by Julie Cameron, God Is No Laughing Matter, in which she disproves her thesis.
I suspect, as does Julie, that God has a great sense of humor and is waiting for us to lighten up a bit.
So I tackled a related reverential subject . . . LOVE . . . with the utmost irreverence. 😉
God must have a sense of humor and a great one. Otherwise He would have incinerated all of us long ago.
Well, I don’t know about ALL of us . . . but it would be great if instant Karma removed the predators from our midst.
I agree… (Feverishly starts hiding all the satarical love poems he has ever written in his life…which is a bunch!) 🙂
Be an artist . . . live by your own rules!
Haha! Lines were made for crossing, right?
Exactly! Or as Elizabeth Bennet would say:
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ~ Pride and Prejudice, ch. 31
Nancy, this made me smile because it gets different reactions from all of us. God does have a sense humor, including you. 🙂
Thanks, Marie. To prove her case, Julie cited . . . Zebras, Giraffes, and red-assed Baboons.
And let’s not forget the Platypus, Camels, and Aardvarks,
And ostriches…
So many marvelous animals to behold. 😀
lol…nice
Nothing like a mid-afternoon chuckle to keep us smiling. 😉
The minute I saw your title, I knew you were up to something, Nancy.
For sure, love will laugh at itself before anyone else has a chance! 😀
Love is too wonderful to exist in a vacuum without mirth. 😀
My parents married 66 years past Sept. We have a disposable society that disposes people as well. Hey, people come into our lives and out of our lives and splitting and getting on with it may be reasonable. But couples that have a wholesome loving relationship have something that is very rare and must be cherished in every way. It did not work out that way for me and as I am sole caretaker of my parents will remain a bachelor. Love for grandchildren far exceeds the relationship love of couples anyway.
I expect that most enduring relationships have humor as the peace-keeping cornerstone. I know ours (30 years and counting) would have fallen by the wayside long ago if we did not live, love, and LAUGH together. 😀
We’ve been married 44 years…and I would have to say that my husband’s sense of humor has been one of the most important factors in this still-loving relationship. 🙂 Love…in all of its forms…can certainly be very funny…and sometimes at the oddest times. 🙂
Thanks for helping pass along the laughter and the love!
Thanks, Vivian. Having a sense of humor, and being able to laugh at the absurdities of life, is a valuable possession in any relationship.
A day without laughter is a day wasted. 😀
totally agree with you…
I had once read a poem which roughly translates into English as…
I can SEE the fragrance of those looks,
dont TOUCH it with your hands and
blamish it with the tag of a relationship …
it´s just an emotion,
feel it…
let love remain love only,
don´t name it anything else…
thanks Nancy for reminding us … love IS OFF LIMITS
That’s so interesting, Samyak. After posting this, I started reading The Power of NOW by Eckhart Tolle. He cautions:
“Don’t get attached to any words. They are only stepping stones, to be left behind as quickly as possible.” (p.6)
He also differentiates between the emotion of love (which may be both amusing and inane at times) and the deep states of PEACE, LOVE, and JOY that define our Being in the silent stillness between thought:
“What is often referred to as love may be preasurable and exciting for a while, but it is an addictive clinging, an extremely needy condition that can turn into its opposite at the flick of a switch. Many “love” relationships, after the initial euphoria has passed, actaully oscillate between “love” and hate, attraction and attack.” (p.24)
Oh boy. I broke this rule back in high school when I wrote a poem about a boy’s love for his car (prompted by my date backing out of taking me to his prom because he bought an italian leather steering wheel for his car. We still went to my prom, but probably shouldn’t have….)
I guess I should scrap my current poem-in-progress, too: “You Hung The Moon But Left Your Socks On The Floor.”
Too funny, Janna. No, wait . . . two funny, Janna.
(1) I’m gonna buy me a . . . car
Cuz I need a friend now
Yeah, yeah . . . boop boop she bop bop.
I’m gonna buy me a car . . .
To drive me near and far . . . but not to the prom
(2) Your current poem sounds like a country song (or two . . . hundred) I heard once. We know the blush is off the rose when we toss our socks on the floor.
I believe that love is our reason for living, but laughter is the medicine to cure our ills.
Love and laughter certainly make our stay here more palatable.
Most of my love poetry to the Hub has made fun of him and us. He’s still here, so I guess it can’t be so bad to cross that line.
I’ve never liked “serious” or “mushy” love cards . . . the sentiments expressed seem insincere without a bit of humor tossed into the mix.
Funny love cards speak to my heart.
I love lamp: http://youtu.be/VgdqmsLbr3s
Wow! That’s a real eye opener! 😯
Jokes about love? Now that is interesting…. must look for some filled with satire. 🙂
Unconditional Love . . . that state of being (along with inner Peace and Joy) is not subject to satire since it has no opposite.
In contrast, romantic Love is a needy thing that oscillates between Love and Hate depending upon whether the “object of affection” is behaving as we wish . . . or being “contrary.” There is AMPLE fodder for satire of love which isn’t really love at all.
Keep on crossing that line, Nancy 😀
Shall do . . . beeblue! 😀
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