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quiet. love.

DRAFT


i tell you to love me
i brush out my hair
i tell you to love me
you say it's not fair

the sun eats my skin
you eat my sin
i tell you to love me
then tell you again

i tell you to love me
i brush out my teeth
i remember the dead
with soft evergreen

the moon sings out loud
i sing below
i tell you i love you
you say you know

i tell you i love you
i brush off the dust
i tell you i love you
but it seems very rushed

i tell you to love me
you roll back your eyes
you say that you love me
a blissful sweet lie

the loon is out calling
on a pond of glass
i love you too dearly
as life continues to pass

i tell you to love me
i brush off a tick
i tell you i love you
it won't do the trick.

the sun eats my sin
you eat my skin
you tell me to love you
then tell me again.
Callooh - on June 12 2007

this is an excellent love poem in the making, I really like it. it has a nice flow (needs some polishing in spots) and is funny and romantic in an unexpected way.

some sugestions I would make, somehow tweek the sun/skin/you/sin lines, they're not quite there yet, S3L4 try ''within'', S4L4 ''you say that you know'', S5L4 what about ''but it comes out quite hushed" (goes with the quiet theme), S6L4 ''with a blissful sweet lie'',  S7L2 "on a pond of black glass'', the last two lines here don't work too well for me, just a thought for S8L4 ''it don't do the trick'', last stanza add ''and'' to L2, and the last lines... again I'm not sure about them...

I love the teeth, dust, eye rolling, ticks etc - I think these are what I like best about this love poem. ( few of my favourite things, so to speak!)


Anstey - on June 13 2007
Thanks! I'll keep that in mind as i go through the rewrite. You rock
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Derma Kaput - on June 13 2007

seems like callooh covered just about everything I would have mentioned - thanks Callooh!  I'm free to be lazy.  That said, I thought stanza three was the one that needed the most work, but overall I think its very sweet and well-structured.  definitely worth working on.


Tracey - on June 14 2007
I bought into it completely except for the places the meter is off. Polish it up, let it shine.
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