Poem What To Do With All The Love
@arthurchappell (44998)
Preston, England
October 27, 2018 6:36pm CST
Poem - What To Do With All The Love
Nah, not much rhymes with love, Guv,
There’s glove, shove, & dove,
And that’s about yer lot.
It’s surprisin’ love got
Into so many romantic songs
And poems as if it belongs
Among words with lots of rhymes.
I can’t believe how many times
Shakespeare, The Beatles and others
Use Love to praise lovers, mothers, brothers,
And even cats & dogs.
Love hogs
A lot of verse for a word with so few matches
You’ll find it catches a ride in snatches
Of melody everywhere
Every time we share
Valentine cards and how we care
For friends, or our husband and wife
Love cements us together in the joys of life
But we don’t give it more opportunity to rhyme.
It seems ungrateful of us after all this time.
So many sonnets, letters, kisses and vows
No wonder many singers just repeat love as much as their time allows
Love, love, love, love, love,
All for you my little darling dove
Nothing much rhymes because no other word compares to a love so true
There’s no better ending than simply saying I love you.
Arthur Chappell
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@xander6464 (44387)
• Wapello, Iowa
28 Oct 18
I had never thought before about how love isn't often rhymed in songs and I thought, "That can't be right." But as I read this, three songs popped into my mind. All You Need Is Love, She Loves You and the theme from Love American Style and sure enough, they don't...Sometimes they rhyme love with itself, kind of but not really. And then more songs followed and now I can't stop thinking about it.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@xander6464 I was quite surprised how few rhymes it has - named them all in the poem
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@xander6464 yes, frightfully few, though you can add prefixes, ie, glove - foxglove, dove - turtle-dove, etc
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@xander6464 (44387)
• Wapello, Iowa
28 Oct 18
@arthurchappell That is all of them? It's not many at all.
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@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
28 Oct 18
aw I hope the girl won't order caviar and expensive champagne.... This is nice.. do you do this on your dates? read poem?
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@Mavic123456 if my partner wants to hear my poetry, yes
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
29 Oct 18
@Mavic123456 great to have a song written for you
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@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
29 Oct 18
@arthurchappell wow... such a romantic fellow my bf wrote a song for me. there he got me. lol
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@RasmaSandra (80635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Oct 18
Wonderful poetry. Enjoyed this. Now just a little melody and you got a new rock tune
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@RasmaSandra thanks, alas I have no musical skills at all
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@RasmaSandra I can't sing either, but i'm thinking more of my inability to compose a tune here
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@RasmaSandra (80635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Oct 18
@arthurchappell I can remember melodies and words to my favorite songs but sing like a bullfrog on a lily pad.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@franxav religious love is valid too here, thanks
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@ledante (1086)
• Taipei, Taiwan
28 Oct 18
@arthurchappell the ancient Greeks had like eight different flavors of love, but for some reason the modern world wants to lump everything into the same category
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@ledante (1086)
• Taipei, Taiwan
29 Oct 18
@arthurchappell so why apply a generic term like love to both? why not use lust and comradery?
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@anya12adwi (9806)
• India
28 Oct 18
Hard to find a love that's so true
and pure;
Are you a delusion, or a fantasy
I'm unsure.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
@anya12adwi love can certainly delude us - nice poem
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
28 Oct 18
yeah mr & Luv go back a long way
Love Luv as much now as I luvved it yes-ta-day
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
29 Oct 18
Very thoughtful poem with a little bit of whimsical in it.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
1 Nov 18
So simple but at times so difficult to say. One song I remember has the words LOVE HURTS and that phrase is often repeated throughout that song. The Beatles used Love in many songs, for instance, ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE & SHE LOVES YOU AND YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE GLAD.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
1 Nov 18
@lookatdesktop yes the Beatle All You Need Is Love can be used as an anti-war and anti-state control message too
This is the most chilling playback performance of The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" EVER; as it was featured in the final episode of the cult TV series "Th...
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@Loyd12 (154)
• Zamboanga City, Philippines
1 Nov 18
You are fantastic and I really like it. I am sure that you have a future to be a poet. Good luck and more projects to come. :)
