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Sonnet on Love
Uh-oh, the L word rears its clichéd head:
It's all you need; a many-splendored thing;
A ball and chain; a battlefield, it's said;
It's chequered, or a plump, pristine dove's wing;
As serious a business as you've got;
A look, an action, even a machine;
An angel in the centrefold, too hot;
Ole devil casting rocks, his thoughts unclean.
Yeah, that's all grand, but none of these is love;
Unselfishness and giving are the key;
To want what's best for one another, guv;
Someone to feel the peace and calm with me.
I don't need entertainment on the pull;
I know what makes the cosmos beautiful.
© Sara Nicola Ruth
Big Up
⛱ The mix-tapes we used to make for friends and lovers in the olden days, recording onto cassettes from borrowed vinyl or tape-to-tape from stuff we’d recorded off the radio. I refer to the following twelve songs in the first eight lines:
- “All You Need Is Love” by The Beatles (1967)
- “Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing” written by Fain & Webster (1955)
- “(Love Is Like A) Ball And Chain” performed by Janis Joplin (1968)
- “Love Is A Battlefield” by Pat Benatar (1983)
- “Chequered Love” by Kim Wilde (1981)
- “Wings Of A Dove” by Madness (1983)
- “Dr Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)” by Aretha Franklin (1967)
- “The Look Of Love” by ABC (1982)
- “Love Action” by The Human League (1981)
- “Love Machine” by The Miracles (1975)
- “(My Angel Is The) Centrefold” by J. Geils Band (1981)
- “That Ole Devil Called Love” performed by Billie Holiday (1944)
Sonnet on Love Playlist:
⛱ And the Biggest of All Possible Big Ups to the Main Man, the Grandaddy of surrealist comedy Ivor Cutler for this love song written to his wife…
Beautiful Cosmos by Ivor Cutler
You are the centre of your little world and I am of mine
Now and again we meet for tea, we're two of a kind
This is our universe, cups of tea
We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me
We have a beautiful cosmos
What do we talk of whenever we meet? nothing at all!
You sit with a sandwich I look at a roll
Sometimes I open my mouth, and shut it
We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me
We have a beautiful cosmos
You are the centre of your little world and I am of mine
Now and again we meet for tea, we're two of a kind
This is our universe, cups of tea
We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me
We have a beautiful cosmos
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