How Would You Like To Be Wooed?

Yeah yeah...accept it or not, we all love to be wooed in the most romantic and craziest of ways...wine, dine, candle lights, music et al! Being wooed by your sweetheart in the mushiest way possible is perhaps every woman's dream. So what's your take on this? How would you like to be proposed? For me, it's all about going down on knees, chocolates, music, good food and laugh to share. Seeing eye to eye and a smile which connects to the soul are the prerequisites. There's no perfect situation...any situation can be perfect when you're with your sweetheart!

Here's something for all you romantics...

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

------- Pablo Neruda

One Lone Tear

I love Maya Angelou's poems...they are so eloquent and true to life. Here's one of my favorites:

Touched by an Angel

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Maya Angelou

Power of Love: Jennifer Rush

Love songs always lift us and mend our broken souls whenever we feel low and stifling. We feel the magic of love oozing in our lives when we listen to the beautiful lyrics and words of these everlasting songs... such is their sweet and comforting impact!

Love songs have always been my favorites, be it anytime or any day. Listen to this beautiful and eternal love song by Jennifer Rush and feel the power of love!

What is Love?

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

There seems to be no complete and accepted definition of love, even today. What exactly is love? Can it be summed up in few words or sentences? Perhaps NO! Love is a very complicated, inexplicable, and sublime feeling, that is beyond definition. The experience and feeling of love is different for everybody.

Love opens the gates of happiness to all those who fall in love. Love has many shades and stages. Love is a strange feeling. You never know where and when you'll find love. You cannot predict love or get love forcefully. It just happens. Love has no boundaries. Love is all encompassing, heavenly, unconditional, ethereal, madness, crazy, sacrificing, and above all--suffering! When in love, we cannot escape the tears and the pain it brings with it. But there is hope and triumph in that pain. Look at the eternal love stories of celebrated lovers--Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, Laila-Majnu, Heer-Ranjha, Othello and Desdemona, Samson and Delilah, Sohni and Mahiwal, or countless others, who have made their love eternal with their sacrifices and courage.

As Mark Twain has said, "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired", love makes us do the craziest of things and fills us with insatiable desire. Love makes one a better human being.The world seems a better place to live, when you are in love. Every day seems a new day full of promise and every moment looks bright. Love is an enigma; love makes life confusing, but still we can't help falling in love; without love we cannot live at all.

Speaking about love, I can go on and on...without stopping:) But it is virtually a very difficult emotion to explain...something not restricted within words.

So what's your opinion about LOVE? Come share it with me!