Poem Time

[PaladinFoster]

Here, have a little high-quality poetry to enliven your day.

The Broken Heart
John Donne

He is stark mad, whoever says,
That he hath been in love an hour,
Yet not that love so soon decays,
But that it can ten in less space devour ;
Who will believe me, if I swear
That I have had the plague a year?
Who would not laugh at me, if I should say
I saw a flash of powder burn a day?

Ah, what a trifle is a heart,
If once into love's hands it come !
All other griefs allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some ;
They come to us, but us love draws ;
He swallows us and never chaws ;
By him, as by chain'd shot, whole ranks do die ;
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.

If 'twere not so, what did become
Of my heart when I first saw thee?
I brought a heart into the room,
But from the room I carried none with me.
If it had gone to thee, I know
Mine would have taught thine heart to show
More pity unto me ; but Love, alas !
At one first blow did shiver it as glass.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite ;
Therefore I think my breast hath all
Those pieces still, though they be not unite ;
And now, as broken glasses show
A hundred lesser faces, so
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more.

The man was a genius.

[rpg101]

Do we go to the same school, because my English class had to read a few of his poems this week.

[SmexySpiral]

The darkness shrouds me
There's blood fucking everywhere
Where are my tampons

[Hellis]

Her anger boils
Her Temperament flares
My eyes are wide in terror
Red Tide

[SmexySpiral]

Her anger boils
Her Temperament flares
My eyes are wide in terror
Red Tide

This is why I enjoy you Hellis.

This right here.

[Clirkus]

Well, PF, I thought it was excellent.

[PaladinFoster]

Do we go to the same school, because my English class had to read a few of his poems this week.

Donne was a peer of Shakespeare, it makes sense.

[Azarthes]

Nope

[Hellis]

This is why I enjoy you Hellis.

This right here.

Now read it in Christopher Lees voice.

[Foxes]

Keats > Donne