Words, words, words

[gwraged_annwn]

As much as I've prided myself, as an academic, on my ability to write both eloquently, and with a certain degree of style, I've always felt that when it comes to expressing my emotions I fall short. I have never been a poet, and it seems that whenever I try to talk about how I feel about someone I truly love, the words seem empty, or too simple to

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[photozenic]

Sometimes the simplest words are the most powerful.

[girlunraveling]

Well, this entry itself is lovely - you write eloquently and with so much cadence, and with the simplest words. Poetic statements of love are always hard to make. Sometimes the best I can manage is a statement like "He means everything to me." But sometimes that cliche is just fine because it is true.

I can't write poetry to save my life, though, and I love prose precisely because it doesn't have to be perfect (and because it is low, and I always seem to choose the low over the lofty - or maybe I dream of making something lofty out of something low - I don't know).