tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77674532934179588022011-04-21T15:13:20.443-07:00jimi hollemanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02114577335775330726noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767453293417958802.post-55281404235309126302008-11-11T13:51:00.000-08:002008-11-11T13:51:30.581-08:00<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33423439670">Facebook Friend's Love / True Love -- Jimi Hollemans' Quote</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7767453293417958802-5528140423530912630?l=jimihollemans.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jimi hollemanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02114577335775330726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767453293417958802.post-62490098249382830132008-09-07T19:30:00.000-07:002008-09-07T19:32:26.563-07:00A friend’s love tell’s us:<br /> “If you ever need anything,<br />I’ll be there.”<br />True love tells us:<br /> “You’ll never need anything;<br />I’ll be there.”<br />I wrote that quote/poem (I’ve never quite known what to call it) in a letter to a friend in late 2002. It wasn’t in the body of the letter, but written in the margin. Unrequited love was the theme of the letter, and I was just clarifying my thoughts. When she got the letter, Catherine mentioned how much she and her mother had liked the “thing i wrote on the side”, and that I could copyright it by posting it on poetry.com. So I did, and didn’t think much of it for quite awhile. In late 2005, I entered my last name into a search engine and was suprised to return hundreds of results, “Hollemans” isn’t that common a name. When I followed the links I realized many of them were posts or personal pages containing my quote. It had apparently been a finalist for poetry.com’s monthly contest (earning honorable mention) and other people liked it. It has been really interesting to see how it has been used and spread through the web. I’ve seen it in Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian, on wedding invitations, and in prison and homosexual chat rooms. It really is a universal and simple concept, though I’ve seen those who vehemently disagree with the whole idea. I enjoy the idea that some nearly forgotten words from years ago are being quoted around the world. I’ll try to post more about it soon, I’ll be inviting those who’ve used the quote to read the backstory.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7767453293417958802-6249009824938283013?l=jimihollemans.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jimi hollemanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02114577335775330726noreply@blogger.com0