They’re both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful
But uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Such is the start of a lovely poem by Wislawa Szymborska, one of the few women ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is still a part of my slow reading taken from Ten Poems To Open Your Heart. She is an unknown author to me, I love her words though.
Is it really possible that love blooms at first sight? Maybe and perhaps you have seen each other before but awareness was absent. Maybe you have been to the same place before but the eyes did not see it. Or maybe you have dreamed of each other but didn’t recognize each other in real life.
Is love at first sight really possible?
Love is a great mystery, born forth sometimes by a single glance or just a tremulous smile. Who knows, they might have met before but were unaware of each other. Or chance meeting maybe? Whatever it is, it evoked something deep within. Sometimes you feel that you have known each other in another life. And the recognition is there in your eyes.
Dreams And Escapes 
Lovely thoughts
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Thanks Derrickš«
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It is good to consider the possibility. I am still not sure about real love at first sight though. That can be too easy to confuse with desire.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is probably possible but what I am seing here is instant attraction, not love. I have yet to read the interpretations of Roger. Housden, the author of the book. Love at First Sight is actually the title of the poem.
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I have had reactions at first sight but they did not mean I had found love! I actually knew my now husband as a friend for many years before it turned into love.
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Yes I guess sometimes it is better to have friendship established first. The words of the whole poem Love at First Sight are lovely though.
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It works well in poetry.
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Beautiful thoughts, Arlene. I do believe in the power of love at first sight ~ may be just the electricity of some common element between to people, but it is powerful. This feeling to me is very similar to the last two lines of the wonderful poem: “Such certainty is beautiful. But uncertainty is more beautiful still.”
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The whole poem is lovely. I love how she strings her words. Maybe really, love at first sight is possibleā¤
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