Let's Get Real Singles, Pulaski TN

06/16/2023

“In true love, you attain freedom.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

06/12/2023

06/09/2023

How else could it be
The harrowing voyage
Into the heart
That is getting close
To another person
Filled with kingdoms
Of prisons
And dungeons

With love we so want
To be kings and queens
Though we are filled
With history’s inmates
Confined in our chests
Who rattle the bars of our ribs

We want to be cooing doves
But are some freakish combination
Of doves
And rabid bats

Love is the unfoldment
Of promises and so much pain
Is is terribly beautiful
Or beautifully terrible
Or just some great collision
Of the purity of the heart
Crashing into its shards
Of madness
A great pile
Of shrapnel

Love, are you treasure hunt
Or minefield,
Wolf or sheep
Who can say?

For I am a tattered and tattering
A fanged and bleating thing
Soft and cruel
From too much softness

Desperate prayers
For more softness
Sharpened like knives
To tear open the soft belly
Of Heaven

What a haggard road, love
That makes us gods
And monsters

Great love is the high-ceilinged ballroom
Stuffed with dreams and nightmares
The masquerade of the demons
Of the past.
Are you charmed or haunted
As the cavalcade
Of shrouds and wedding veils
Of brides and reapers
That is all of me
Approaches you to ask,
“May I have this dance?”
-Chelan Harkin

06/09/2023

In true love, you attain freedom. When you love, you bring freedom to the person you love. If the opposite is true, it is not true love. You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. -Thich Nhat Hanh

06/04/2023

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay...love isn't love til you give it away.

05/30/2023

Through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places.
—E.E. Cummings

05/29/2023

Happy Memorial Day all you real single warriors out there!!!! Remembering all those who served..we are eternally grateful!!!

05/25/2023

Young at heart soul not looking for but maybe hopeful for another same soul who likes bonfires and poetry and laughter and maybe a taste of something sweetly spicy at times...

05/25/2023

Hey...let's get real and keep it that way..love and respect is the name of this game..have fun but remember the golden rule..do to others what you would want done to you..