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Love is the Drug
Everyone Loves - How Do You Show It?

The Core Values Test
- Discovering Your Deepest Values
This is a version of the Core Values Test. This version of the test has you narrow it down to three values. Take it one step further by narrowing those three down to two, then one.
Are you addicted to love?
Whether you love to read or write, or both, you will often come upon a common theme: love. Nearly every writer has written about love in some form. Love is a powerful emotion which convinces us to do the most astounding things, take the silliest of actions, and make the most shocking choices. Love also amazes us. It leaves us flabbergasted. It shapes our lives. It allows us to taste the outermost boundaries of living.
A past teacher, a poet, once wrote to me: “Every day the world bothers to be beautiful. All we have to do is show up.”
I recently took the Core Values Exercise, and wasn’t surprised to find that Love ended up being my essential value in life. I believe that the ability to love is at the root of everything. It allows us to hold our friends and family dear, it brings us joy and happiness, and it teaches us peace and wisdom.
We all love in many ways. I’ve loved friends like they were family. I’ve loved a cousin like a sister. I’ve loved with a passion that burned my skin, intoxicated my mind, and throbbed through my blood. I’ve loved with a sweetness that kissed my bruises, caressed my face with smiles, and breathed softly into my being.
A past teacher, a poet, once wrote to me: “Every day the world bothers to be beautiful. All we have to do is show up.”
Looking for Love Poems?
Conversations Among Friends
"Once I had a lover-
he was twenty.
And Cuban and, oh..."
How old were you?
"I was thirty-nine."
I also had a lover
who was twenty,
only a few years ago.
I think about getting
married at times, then I
think about being forty
and having affairs with twenty year olds.
A Love Letter - Revamped
My ink smudges against your fingertips,
I unfold for you like a favorite letter kept
Curled in your warm breast pocket.
Heat from your tender fingers betrays
All of your eager desires. My envelope
Lies, like discarded clothing, on the floor.
These two poems capture different kinds of love. I wrote the first poem when I was single. I loved the adventures life threw my way. I had love affairs with my friends, each of them fulfilling a different piece of me. I loved wild and free. I wrote the second poem a year and a half after I got married. It is one of the few acrostic poems I’ve written. I had never experienced such a deep, consuming love as this. While brainstorming for this poem, I wrote in my journal: “Being married takes a lot of hard work, but it doesn’t feel like work because it is love.”
How have you experienced love?
I have a lover, he is twenty and puerto rican. Oh, I'm 32 but he's the kind of lover that passionately burns my skin and intoxicates my mind.
I love your writing. Conversations among friends definately being my favorite part of this piece.
I can feel the adrenaline coursing through my viens just from reading your description of love, as I am in the throws of adventure right now.
I'm so glad you've shared your writing with the world, if for no other reason than so I could find it.
nice poetry
wonderful. the poems are blunt with hidden echoes - I loved them. I'm glad I stopped in. :)
Hey Stacie would love to see you publish more of your poem's after all this G-Ma is and she knows how good you really are. And so Love is every where? Wonderful feeling isn't it? G-Ma :o) hugs
Love is All Around
Thanks for sharing Stacie I love your poetry.....jimmy
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