LOVE POEMS

WHY BE WOEFUL OF FAILED LOVE?-- a terzanelle

WHY BE WOEFUL OF FAILED LOVE?-- a terzanelle


[It is better to love than not to love at all. Pure love will endure. Impure one is best forgotten.]




If love is pure, it is nice.
In love it is just a fact:
Impure love cannot suffice.

Love needs a heart full of tact.
Without tact, love is a drag;
In love it is just a fact.

Lovers may advance or lag,
But one must remember this:
Without tact, love is a drag.

Though to win in love we wish,
And we spin many a dream,
But one must remember this:

If we fail let us not scream.
Having loved is a reward.
And, we spin many a dream.

To be in love once again,
If love is pure, it is nice.
Having loved is a reward.
Impure love cannot suffice.



* A terzanelle is a nineteen line poem consisting of 5 tercets and 1 quatrain. Out of the 19 lines, 5 are non-repeated lines while the remaining 14 are really 7 lines occurring twice. The rhyming pattern is as follows [Repeated lines are shown in upper case]:


A1 B1 A2; b C1 B1; c D1 C1; d E1 D1; e F1 E1; f A1 F1 A2


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M C Gupta
27 October 2005