Poetry Picnic Week 7: Love and Loss

My friends, I am Shashi and the host for the 7th week of creativity and enjoyment at

The Gooseberry Garden for Poetry Picnic Week 7.

We are going strength to strength and having an amazing time. Though I was not able to log on and read the poetry for some week but I strive to create this post an inspiring and giving you something to think about... hope I am doing it alright. But I promise you this, from next week onwards, I will try to plan better and give more time as we are trying to tweak the timeline of the posting to a little earlier to give me decent hours to work with this post in India, hope this will be fine with you my friends....

Love Potion
Painting by Koloman Moser  1915
I took this picture this July at Beveldere Museum Vienna

Well this week is going to be very interesting as we are going to write about an interesting topic i.e. ‘Love and Loss’ and anyone who has lived life, and or living life has something to say about it... so get your muse working overtime and tell you love how you feel, or tell your ex... How much it pains.... or just share how much your love people, friends and things around you and what loss means, when you lose something... anything.

But before that let me tell you what we are going to do next week...

Next week we are going talk about “Friends, relationships and everyone around” sharing the person’s who moulded us, made us what we are today, or someone that touched your heart or someone, who around you makes the world burst out in colours of rainbow...

Now coming back to our topic this week....

POETRY PICNIC WK 7: Love and loss

Sharing a lovely story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning... Both Elizabeth and Robert Browning believed that their love was eternal and some how I feel that it was... you judge for yourself.... as you read on...

Elizabeth Browning write in one of the most beautiful and love filled poetry that I have ever come across...  telling her husband Robert Browning...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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Elizabeth Browning (1806-1861)

After Elizabeth Browning’s death, Robert Browning wrote the following quote from Dante into his wife’s Bible, “ I believe and I declare – certain I am – from this life I pass into a better, there where that lady lives of whom enamoured was my soul.”

Though Robert Browning outlived his wife by 28 years, he never remarried. A certain Lady Ashburton once proposed to him but he declined, assuring her that his heart lay buried in Florence, and any marriage would be for the benefit of his young son.

Here is one of his lovely poetry I am sharing about love..

LOVE
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So, the year’s done with!
(Love me forever)
All March begun with,
April’s endeavour;
May-wreaths that bound me
June needs must sever;
Now snow fall round me,
Quenching June’s fever___
(Love me forever)

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Robert Browning
(May7th, 1812 – Dec 12, 1889)

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Happy (Belated) Birthday to October Babies,

including the following poets at our community, wishing you all the happiness and success in life, and many happy returns! You Rock! Please enjoy a grand time!

October 2, Morning, Morning

October 6, Life in Verse, Aynsley7

October 9, Caged By Freedom, Tweety

October 16, Talon, TALON

October 16, Celebrating A Year: Mairmusic

October 21:~Drew: ~Drew

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Shashi 
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya

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