General Poetry posted October 10, 2024


A swap quatrain.

Love cannot take

by royowen

Though love is free it bears a cost,
love has no worth if love is lost.
Please answer this do you agree?
It bears a cost though love is free.

To purchase love, how much to spend?
To shed one's blood with wine to blend.
The truth is this, it's from above,
how much to spend to purchase love?

For love to last it must be pure,
contains no blemish to endure.
To have a future there's no past,
it should be pure for love to last.

Love only gives it should not take,
'cause if it does that love is fake.
For love I think eternal lives,
it should not take, love only gives.

R.Owen 10/10/2024.

How much to spend to purchase love?




Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the first line is reversed in the fourth line. In addition, line 2 must rhyme with line 1, and line 3 must rhyme with line 4 and so on.

John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Romans 5:8-10
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!

Luke 22:19-21
And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me. In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.! The hand of My betrayer is with Mine on the table.
Berean Standard Bible

Thanks for for reading. R.Owen
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