Post No. 097: To The Ones I Love, Part 6 — I'll Always, "All-Ways," Love You!

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"I'll Always, 'All-Ways,' Love You!"

...I'll always love you,
Ooh, I will "all-ways" love you,
You, My Darlings, you...

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"

My Writing Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: This poem was inspired the song "I Will Always Love You" written by Dolly Parton and, specifically, the cover performed by Whitney Houston—because, in my heart of hearts, I am a romantic fool! (Please see the hyperlink below for the video.)

By the way, the video for the song is from the 1992 motion picture (movie) The Bodyguard, which "follows a former United States Secret Service agent [Kevin Costner] turned bodyguard who is hired to protect a famous actress and singer [Whitney Houston] from an unknown stalker." So, there are a lot of depictions of violence, including gun violence, in the movie and in the music video—which I am calling attention to in order to not call attention to it—because, in promoting this video, I do not wish to promote gun violence, or other forms of violence, in the minds of those who think it's a good idea to solve problems through gun violence, or through other forms of violence.

And this poem was also published on my "Small All White in the Forest" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Small All White in the Forest."

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com

Watch "Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You" on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU

This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 097 was edited on July 12th, 2024.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

My poems that are Haiku in their style—within which one stanza is composed of three lines, where each line has words containing five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively—are a lot more like Senryū poems in that the topic of these poems is typically about people, rather than the topic of these poems being about nature, as is usually the case in classic Haiku poems. And that is why I call these types of poems "Haiku-style." –Paul Whiting [September 19th, 2023]

Post No. 094: To The Ones I Love, Part 3 — "Born To Be Wild!"

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"Born To Be Wild!"

The creativity within
all of us, of course, is
a power that we express
like really wild horses!

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"

My Writing Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: This poem was inspired by the song "Born To Be Wild" written by Mars Bonfire for the band Steppenwolf and, specifically, the cover performed by the band Hinder from their music video (please see the hyperlink below for the video) because, in my heart of hearts, I am a rocker dude!

By the way, I interpret the lyrics "Fire all of your guns at once" to be starting guns of a race because, in promoting this song, I do not wish to promote gun violence in the minds of those who think it's a good idea to solve problems through gun violence.

Just so you know, I revised this poem, as I often do with my writing! And I changed how this poem was written when I was editing it on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs. So, I wanted to show you how this poem used to be written, before I revised it as above.

And it used to be written like this:

"Born To Be Wild!"

The creativity within
all of us—of course—is
a power that we express
like really wild horses!

Thus, I revised this poem to be written as it is above.

And this poem was also published on my "Small All White in the Forest" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Small All White in the Forest."

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee

https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com

Watch "Hinder - Born To Be Wild" on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/SqgM240GoU4

This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 094 was edited on July 9th, 2024.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]