Ah the famous Beatles lyric, long gone are the days of chart topping singles that contained such charm and innocence. what chance does todays youth have when songs of ‘i wanna hold your hand’ and ‘from me to you’ have been replaced with modern day innuendo? hath not modern day society quelled our chivalrous behaviour!? no i cry! it is not so! it is alive in us all. stumblings through the world wide webs diverse collections of artworks and photographs reveals that true love is alive and well in many creative forms:
so fear not blog fans, the most raw and potent emotion runs free and wild through the veins of civilisation. These grand gestures of affection displayed in the public domain, shouted from rooftops to then be magnified further by phenomenal power of the internet. on this most inspired of notes i leave you with words of a more classical nature, true brilliance, from one william shakespeare
”Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet…