~ 2 of my favorite love poems ~
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
by William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face among a crowd of stars.
LOVESONG by Ted Hughes
He loved her and she loved him. / His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite / She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her / Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
Her eyes wanted nothing to get away / Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life / Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease / He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing / Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press / To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace / Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites / So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His words were occupying armies / Her laughs were an assassin's attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge / His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots / Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway / Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors / Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon's gag / Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it / His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot / Her vows put his eyes in formalin
At the back of her secret drawer / Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves / Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs / In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other's face.
WHEN YOU ARE OLD
by William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face among a crowd of stars.
LOVESONG by Ted Hughes
He loved her and she loved him. / His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite / She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her / Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
Her eyes wanted nothing to get away / Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life / Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease / He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing / Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press / To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace / Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites / So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His words were occupying armies / Her laughs were an assassin's attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge / His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots / Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway / Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors / Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon's gag / Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it / His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot / Her vows put his eyes in formalin
At the back of her secret drawer / Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves / Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs / In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other's face.
I stand alone in the color while my thoughts bleed from my mind. Oh how I wish that you would come save me. Save me from this beauty. It continues these lights, they flash and dart across my face. Mocking me, and teasing of their freedom. The freedom they have to move and dance.
It is all that I do not have. That, and you. You used to make the lights of my life dance and move and make the most beautiful array. Yet now all they do, these beautiful lights and colors, is bring me pain. I knew you weren't coming, I know you wont come. I know, and I knew, that you never did. I've tried to forget you, Ive tried to move on. But, no, these lights and colors continue their eternal dance of mockery and mercilessness.
You see your life's fading away.
Now it seems like you've always known
that life you have will always be the path of thorns,
You've seen it, oh, you have seen it long ago
In the depths of your eyes.
Dark has never been so silent,
While the steps of death are too loud,
So dreadful for the hope that expires slowly.
These moments of sorrow extinguished you,
Harrowing your mind, only the dark were there,
Misery and lonely death were calling your name.
Why is death so painful for others,
Yours has always been present,
In your thoughts, In your absence,
In this sadnees, in despair.
The day is Ending
The sun is Setting
All is over
But i am sad
My heart is still grey
My Friends are mad at me
And i am still sad
I go to sleep
But i can not stop thinking of what i have done
Will my Friends ever Forgive me
And i am still Sad
I Have hurt a friend and Choked another
What have i done
And i am still sad
Why have i done this why
I have been tricked
Betrayed even
By the Evil one
I must get him
Pay him for what he has done to me
When i have done so my friends will be happy
And so will i
The sun is Setting
All is over
But i am sad
My heart is still grey
My Friends are mad at me
And i am still sad
I go to sleep
But i can not stop thinking of what i have done
Will my Friends ever Forgive me
And i am still Sad
I Have hurt a friend and Choked another
What have i done
And i am still sad
Why have i done this why
I have been tricked
Betrayed even
By the Evil one
I must get him
Pay him for what he has done to me
When i have done so my friends will be happy
And so will i
In each lane
People who are rich
And people live in din.
And who lives in a lane
Wants to live in a garden
Suddenly much money they gain
And you ask "How?" they say "A Win".
Our story
You and me
People story
People stories
Are demeaned
And others keep on revilin'
This is our story.
And who's rich
Money goes away
Situations become decay
Life turns into misery
Thinks this was a dream
No, it's a nightmare
And asks "how come?"
Our story
You and me
People story
People stories
Are demeaned
And others keep on revilin'
This is how our stories are.
I hear these crazy stories of people always hurting Not knowing what to do i stupidly ask "What can i do" They reply with "Idk" I say "Can i take your pain away cause thats all i know how to do" They say "Thats impossible that cannot be true" I say "I dont believe in impossible so the real question is how cant it be true" They say "I wouldnt be able to live with myself if it wasnt for u so stop dreaming i cant let u thru i cant let u hurt the way i do" I say "Id smile thru the pain knowing it was for u and i cry cause u hurt now. The pain may be bad but it doesnt hurt as bad as seeing u beat so bad. I know it sounds crazy but all i dream about is caring for people so tell me to stop dreaming and my light will stop beaming. so can I" "Can u what" "Can i take your Pain Away?"
By: Alysia Batallas<3
By: Alysia Batallas<3
So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
I feel it more than half a crime,
When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,
To mar the silence ev'n with lute.
At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes
An image of Elysium lies
Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,
Form in the deep another seven:
Endymion nodding from above
Sees in the sea a second love.
Within the valleys dim and brown,
And on the spectral mountain's crown,
The wearied light is dying down,
And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky
Are redolent of sleep, as I
Am redolent of thee and thine
Enthralling love, my Adeline.
But list, O list, so soft and low
Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow,
That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem
My words the music of a dream.
Thus, while no single sound too rude
Upon thy slumber shall intrude,
Our thoughts, our souls O God above!
In every deed shall mingle, love.
No matter where you go guilt will follow you there
Don't be scared or affraid
Guilt will show you all the mistakes you've made
It can eat you alive
The only way to survive is to tell the bitter truth
If you live out the rest of your days
You'll never escape it you'll be trapped in it's maze
Struggling to forget the guilt in your shallow soul
That is forever rising like a fire when you add coal
Your guilt drives you insane and follows you forever
You'll go to your grave with it unless you
Never tell another lie as long as you live
The End
For Now Anyways
Don't Be Affraid
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been a most familiar bird
Taught me my alphabet to say
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child- with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things !
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings.
Eldorado
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search for Eldorado.
But he grew old –
This knight so bold –
And o’er his heart a shadow
Fell, as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado
And, as his strength
Failed at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow –
“Shadow,” said he ,
“Where can it be, -
This land of Eldorado?”
“Over the Mountains
Of the moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride , boldly ride,”
The shade replied,
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
- Edgar Allan Poe
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search for Eldorado.
But he grew old –
This knight so bold –
And o’er his heart a shadow
Fell, as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado
And, as his strength
Failed at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow –
“Shadow,” said he ,
“Where can it be, -
This land of Eldorado?”
“Over the Mountains
Of the moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride , boldly ride,”
The shade replied,
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
- Edgar Allan Poe
cry, cry, let the tears roll down.
the willows will weep for thee.
by the river i see thine frown.
and thine bloodshot eyes see me.
the flowers covered in morning dew.
droop and hang their heads.
the water runs on one or two.
they cry into the riverbed.
i wade across the water cold.
to embrace you in my arms.
for be you young or be you old.
a hug will do no harm.
you see me fight the current.
as i try to get across.
i see the helping hand you lend.
and i see the tears have lost.
you smile and, despite being sodden.
you wrap your arms around me.
the darkness inside you has finally fallen.
and i know that sad you will never be.
the willows will weep for thee.
by the river i see thine frown.
and thine bloodshot eyes see me.
the flowers covered in morning dew.
droop and hang their heads.
the water runs on one or two.
they cry into the riverbed.
i wade across the water cold.
to embrace you in my arms.
for be you young or be you old.
a hug will do no harm.
you see me fight the current.
as i try to get across.
i see the helping hand you lend.
and i see the tears have lost.
you smile and, despite being sodden.
you wrap your arms around me.
the darkness inside you has finally fallen.
and i know that sad you will never be.
and each one of us lived their lives.
Can't you see where you are now?
You and me where now?..
I am very sorry for us,
that parting shouldn't have happened to us.
But what can I say?
My heart has expired!
But I can't blame you,
this was the life fault.
Oh darling, even if had passed billion years would never forget who eased my mind such as you!
Come back please!
Who's else you can feel the peace of mind with?
I swear my life without you isn't a life,
you still on my mind.
Come back again!
Wasn't me, weren't you, but the life fault.
That sound...where have I heard it before?
* Tick tick tick tick tick*
That sound.....it sounds so fimliar...where have I heard it before?
My heart stops as I remember......
That the sound of my memories fading into nothing...but vague dreams.
Vague dreams that I do not want to remember....but have to...or everything will stop.
*Tick tick tick tick*
How much time left...until it all disappears?....
* tick....tick...tick...*
Ah, there it goes...the memories I had of you...of them.
They are starting to leave ...to fade.
*Tick.*
Haha, there....it's done.
*Click*
Remember Forever....nothing ever really disappears ....