What
I’m in love with you
How
madly, passionately, and intensely to the point where involuntary servitude to this feeling takes over my entire being
Why
you’re gorgeous & not a 10
caring & sometimes brash
intelligent & funny
proud & humble
vulnerable & courageous
amazing & imperfect
and because I love you
exactly for who
you
are
This poem was inspired by the concept of a 30 second elevator pitch, and a lady I’m crazy about.
If you have only 30 seconds to make such a declaration, it’s important to be prepared to make the big pitch. Looks like you are — bravo!
Thanks – I thought of it as an exercise in communication. There is of course an art to telling someone you love or care for them:
fancy, simple, direct, softly, deeply, powerfully, and humorously
briefly, extended, terse, intermittently, slowly, quick
In design, the reach for ‘less’ with greater focus can make a strong distinction on the end product/solution. By purposefully seeking to minimize fanciful prose and such to its bare necessities, is it possible to create a more impactful communication (ahem, I mean affectional prose)?
Perhaps. Hence while extended fanciful prose can also be deep and touching, it can be difficult to write well. After all, we’re not writing with an objective like different types of business communication would need – which by the nature, tend to have best-practice layouts and key phrase accentuations. With personal letters & prose, it’s all intuitive and feely. You just want to do it right in a way that you feel natural and deem appropriate.
Anyways, it was a fun little experiment in playing around with an objective communication manner (What, How, and Why), then adding elements that adequately portray their relative scope and personal feeling.
Perhaps Twitter is making me think more objectively, HA, and that was a subliminal influence
I’m a big believer in saying more with less.
In a post I wrote about Twitter, I recommended that all writers sign up for it: the 140 character limit, when practiced often, can make people write more succinctly. The ability to crystallize one’s thoughts is necessary in all effective, persuasive writing.
I love the execution Mario — and as for the expression, well, she’s one lucky lady!
Thanks Ann – She’s swell indeed.