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Preface
I have written all the poems in this book in three years. Each year, my style
changes and my knowledge widen. Mostly romantic poems, they try to
define love in a new perspective, the modern love of the 21st century. With
an archaic style that first was not rhymed according to meter standards, but
then followed suit, although it still kept some of the modern influence.
Many techniques of the 17th and 18th century were reinvented and
celebrated, refusing to conform to the new forms and modern language
used in poetry today.
I also used many structures I invented myself to reinvigorate old poetry
especially the Shakespearean era. And since I have been largely influenced
by the Bard himself, most, if not all of poems mainly serve as a reminder of
his greatness. My poetry is not a replication of Shakespeares great works, it
is an attempt to tackles issue I consider vital to humankind with the same
fashion he himself used once in his time.
My poetry is a revolution to bring back what has been long left and
deconstructed by modern poets.
Love, as I see It, is not something attainable or recognizable. It is an
impossible passion since many things have changed in the modern era.
Love has become an unnecessary feeling, only requested when certain
qualities are fulfilled by the expected mate.
Men are not loved for their personalities, and women for their beauty, only
physical traits, and supposedly superior ones.
you cannot possibly exist anywhere other than yourself, me, nowhere I
exist
22/03/2015
Sonnets
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I
It was a day that held a charming sense
With all the pain I left upon the stage
He all as handsome and as bold intense
Did hold a toy that all my mind and age;
Hath never touched, nor seen a toy so bold
But she, the lass, as holy and astound
As is the flowers dew when burned and cold
Did rise a torch, and lo, I felt my wound
As did she speak, but only with her eyes
And he, swift-moved, a hand to make a tone
As she did beg, as knew he that a smile
Shall sing a beauty string and burn a bone
II
We walk this life aware of pains and laws
That living thus, beckoning most unfair
That golden she; a beauty and an awe
To all mankind that were defying bare
How dost the moon behind the fairest sun
Arise? Tis but a lie; for heat is bold
The stars were not thus made and neatly done;
For men to touch, stare men a blonde so cold!
Wast born to scorn, and lightly break a heart
A blonde! Hast naught to give, nor wast she made;
To love! Tis only meant to break apart
A lovers heart, and brightly wear the shades
III
O lo, let seas be draught, all mountains fall
O let the windy days be turned a flame
O if the heat of sun is near to haul
O if the stars all come across to blame
IV
Beware my love that men are like the sea
That ships cannot sustain a gentle way
Beware that lust is most apparent seen
When love is felt, the heart is left away
Beware that faces curved or marble-shaped
Like angels fair, or charming knights divine
Art noble fake, if so as knights behave
And hiss thine ears with tales and loving lies
Thus varlets think my love, thus lovers joined
In case of lust, or else a common wealth
V
I have no treasures gold; no silver plates
I own no castles high; no chalets wide
I wear no crown; nor hath a princely trait
And hath no aspects fair; no marble glides
And yet; I am a man; a broken heart
That beats but passion tones and holy strings
I am a dying soul; a passing art
That by his mortal love outlives the kings
I have but love for thee; no treasures hold
For love : my love, is more than treasures count
Love is as rare as diamond is as old
A wishing star, a wealth with no amount
VI
I wish that cupids eye be not as weak
So that an arrow long could hit us both
I wish a lovers dear the arrow seek
So that by cupids name be you my troth
O that as love is born in loving hearts
Thereby a place is saved on loves behalf
Alas! That cupids most foolish of parts
Sees not that loves, nor hears a broken sigh
And that his arrows point be missing aim
And travels far, as rightful ways be seen
Thus lovers hearts be not to cupids game
And stay a virgin shame; a conquered shield
VII
O that my self can be another born
So that my bashful heart turnth to a stone
Misleading thoughts could save our hearts be torn
A nobler love, the gentle fickle home
O that I may a simple short-lived touch
VIII
So that thy heart be loved; ye must be changed
Another self thou must adopt a new
Be high in rank and never act untamed
The rules of love; being of seven few
Act like thou wast a master bold
Thus follow suit; the first to play deceit
The second; having wit to speak as told
And third account; never admit defeat
Tis better be unloved than taste of love
That most distasteful venom spite
Such hearts unloved forbid themselves to love
IX
Thou asked me words that neatly rhyme to use
In telling thine fair face and heavens jewel
Tis but my sweet; that words escaped my muse
To even tell the self-absorbing fuel
How fair thou speakst and laugh when in despair
How dancing nimble thou; when halting forth
How sparkling stars; is that thine eyes as rare!
How such immortal life thou givest thy worth
O let the words at rest ; be not a gem
For thou outlived that early riches gone
Attired with care; the start of beautys stem
The finest soul; in heaven all at lost
XI
To find my self deprived of loving fate
As thus the the mind commands and heart resist
And bleed as wanton thoughts my soul abate
And ache as do the pain my heart assist
If dost the soul confess a passion locked;
My self to my unruly mind shall sink
An empty shell , as minds that never think
XII
I would love thee; if love be measured thus
Sweet thou! Thy smile the tuneful nightingale
And heavenly made; beautys reason just
If it be slumber, then art thee a dale:
That by his graceful tears can weep the lines
That drew thy face, and by a misled fault;
Is this my self : in temples of thine eyes
Dost call thee fair and cry at loves assault
By that which boasts thine figures grace my dear
In heavens name, or chances rare so oft
Thy shape a slender gift to that fair deer
Be it hillocks, incisions sharp and soft
XIII
You see, now that our souls have met and sunk
With loves first encounter we are as lost
With eyes as yours, my self is nimble drunk
Thou feelst the like; for thou art new to love
But this short-lived of pleasant moments pass
And passes all; shall come to be as true
As fast as you and me shall part alas!
As spring to winters hold and seasons new
For both are we; as dwellers in this life
Thou payst the debt, but me is still indebted
My tears to love as oceans in their rife
And love to thee is but a fearless bet
XIV
XV
Alas! Whereof to start! Wherefore to like?
If likeness be to all the fairer hues
For thee I kept my heart aloof, my sight
For thee hath lost his sight and gone by due
I can see still that both my heart and thee
Can be as one and kiss at loves command
I can perceive that though my heart is deemed;
XVI
Thus be, as cold to heat and wind to fire
Each part in need of other parts to be
But if henceforth thy will be it desire
I shall lend all my loving parts to thee
If knowst thou that by natures word I keep
As virgins born to never taste of love
She by her hand hath made thee fairest queen
And I by god am made a slave to love
Thus grant thy will and let both souls imbue
In name of mortal shame, in letters four
The first: to touch thy cheeks eternal hue
And seconds deed to lift thy rosy doors
XVII
That single life which by my self is due
To keep the pain inside a burning hue
That want of love, and that abating fire
To die anew after my births desire
Swift-moved and fair all is thy name can take
If not to be my love, thou mayst thy self oblate
And make a double self to scape thy worth
Defacing thus my love, and doting forth
That lip, which is a sister born to be
Adjoined by thee, when met by other sweets
I never touched, neither by hand nor by;
A brother lip, to prosper or to die
And this my bud, hath never dwelt a place
Where pleasures name is natures proper taste
And this my hand is pure and withered still
To fondle with hillocks or rounded hills
XVIII
One chance, is all my withered heart admit
One chance, ere this defining moment be
If not to force thyself my self acquit
Acquit my heart before it diest in me
I have all knowledge born to know my state
So spare thy mind and save thyself be torn
Tis useless art hath never conquered hate
Comparing me to all the lies forsworn
I have no seeming wealth to entertain
My self my fortunes worth is all I own
And if thou seekst what dost in me remain
All left is love, if love cannot be shown
XIX
Forbid to speak of love for it tormenth
To hear his pleasant lies and doting kisses
I wish no tidings know of thy contents
XX
O no ! again thy smiles do wrong me still
As with thy eyes the sweetest looks command
Is this how liking starts? If not to kill
With loving lies and emeralds gentle hand
O angel white! Have I misread the signs?
When rosy cheeks hot spurred and pearly teeth;
Leaned forth their windows edge and bid my eyes
As lashes long, swift-moved the heaven breathed!
Alas! I have misread thine eyes and hell
Disguised as love, did ope his gate to hate
XXI
How canst my hand touch that which once held faith
To be a sinful shame if so my hand adjoined
Tis temple cold, is gods most sacred place
To me; another strife to add my loins
O no! what will become of my suffering
If love is bound to all the fearless souls
My self a virgin born to loves mocking
And destined bare without a strong-made home
Aloof my tears are left, to dry as cold
Each drop is burned with ages ruthless end
And youth is wasted young to die as old
And nothing lasts, but to times word to bend
XXII
Beings in life are left to fates own hand
When born; alike in birth, their aspects just
And natures bless doth on their hearts command
To be fair true, and to abate their lust
But now youths age is ruthless born
And differences name hath on each man differed
Loves dead ere long, if wast be torn
By mans own hand, and his fair faces dithered
And passions lot is own Gods fairest word
To save her worth for all the beings fit
As loves high cost, so is the merchant bold
To trade his pleasures lies with sinful bliss
XXIII
For all that breathst and movest and flyst above;
Tis mind of mine, me swearst to never use;
To think of cupid darts and trifle love
And by gods name my heart shant be abused
XXIV
So art thou proud! After my hearts defeat
Thy beautys light is most intensified
And lit is it, by mine coals dead heat
For thou addressst not me, and me defyst
But Lo! This not the end, and lifes long course
Shall not cut short with such unfair refusal
And maidenhead; is not yet pricked and forced
But yet in time; is lurd and pricked it shall
And conquered be, by mans unruly parts
It bleeds then red as roses in their thorns
Thine eyes; as heavy weep enlighten dark
XXV
O hearts fierce tormentor comest back again
O sweet mans pain and all the nonesuch truth
Anew this sickness bring after the heart disdained
And thy injustice torn myself in sooth
O love! Disguised in fairest creature born!
She not as fair but fairing her with such;
To call me love, and grant me as could much
And winters snow, is servant by her made
And moons bright light in endless sleepless fall
She sweets best taste and sister to her shades
She golden worth, to feed herself withal
XXVI
O loves lost cause and all unloving hearts
Thy nature false and are as deserts bare
O colours white untrue and dim and dark
So art thou lit, by self-demise and care
So look their eyes, as virtue they conceive
Be mans fair case if so his heart betray
His heart is canny held, if passion is receive
To show true worth and save his loves decay
But I, refusest to be such they admit
And true love hold with all my passing art
To keep it live for hearts to be yet fit
That may loves name be saved a false-born start
XXVII
Loves waste in me, is true love granted
In giving more, so is my love be wasted
If take it thus, thou winst my self indebted
And if to scorn, is then to death-bed hasted
XXVIII
Lo! what is love? Without an action made!
And what to be of hearts if it be locked?
Then empty led, to be eaten by hate
As diest inside, so is the passion lost
No wooers then to woo them all as sweet
No lasses fair to be so kissed their lips
And no cold nights to be so loved by heat
And no hands burned, and no tears shed to sip
So woos replaced by woe and lips with fire
And heat with cold, and nights to days are burned
And hearts despair, and love becomest desire
XXIX
O mother mine! Thou knowst not me, nor art thee ware
That wenches fair, since me first born and young
Have turned my heart to fire ashes bare
And me, still knowst not life, my heart was fired
As with my eyes, I cupid arrows torn
And sworn to love, and die enslaved desire
O lovely lass! Where art thou bonny wench?
Thou cupid killed, and me in endless pain
Thus kept, to fight sweet love and hatred quench
O strumpet whore! Thou art a devil saint!
XXX
How sweet art thee! O beautys gentle soft
XXXI
Stay thus sweet queen! Most injurious of all
Do stay, and let darks face encompass thee
Thou shall not live, thy fate to rise and fall
And falling deep, canst not recovered be
Heaven to scorn, and hell to bid thee come
In Lethe of time thy image shall not hold
And whiteness stained and stabbed your eyes become
XXXII
It is young born and true in nature made
That limits not, nor holds but well-meant hearts
Tis not to boast and strive and passion fake
But make intent most just and best-named start
Two mates in love, alike their hearts rebel
And two in true love join and swear in faith
Both claim to love, but love is not dispelled
By false intent and summers hot cold days
Nor is it painted gold and made a crown
For those unworthy rich to wear afford
Early Sonnets
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I
She said: I deeply construe
That mine heart lovest thee
I said: could thine heart be true?
I said: could thou love me?
She said: thou art my life
Thou art the knight of love
I said: could love be a knife?
Could thou be a peaceful dove?
She said I swear that mine heart;
Is to thee forever bound
I shall not leave thee or depart
Thine eternal love, nor make a wound
II
A barren land that lacks the wind to quench
Nor sand to wear a gown, nor fallen rain
Is never let for noble hearts to wrench
And thusly made for those who passion feign
And I to deem that lass of higher rank
Is never joined by lesser ranks of men
Devine is found to be in heavens bank
And not to scatter thus and swoon again
A fawn can leap, a painted artful face
Is she, in mind and soul compels compare
How is she fair; that shadows darkest lace
Is noticed not, nor farther moves to dare
III
Trow thee, tis but a strange life that we live
Within a minute short thou mayst become
IV
Tis perfection is divine and thou art;
Even fairer and fair is the moonshine;
My mistress from thine eyes doth lure and lark
It moveth me that when charms are bound to lies
And when dark hearts leave us astray and nay
Say I , I lost it heart and soul and thou
By heavens doom my complexion today;
Is fed with woe, and drunk with loves hands blow
Forsooth I say; it shapeth thy face the light
V
O night! When I saw rose I thought I might
Pray for my heart and climb to heavens door
In search of ligh, one could his soul and might
Beg to redeem, for love is fickle shore
Sweet she, and dark is lit and light is dark
When hair shone gold beyond the fairest sound
In sooth! Who is the man that hath the heart
To look past bold and spell her name in rounds
As high as sound my fit the sky to climb
And brave is soul that conquered dens and beasts
Shall not conquer what beauty claimed to chime
Sweet Rose is thus as fair, as far the east
VI
I found me apt and trimmed and lost and dead
Yet I breathe air and live and see wanders
And love I felt and tears I timely shed
And lies I heard for I hath wrongly erred
And so they trod unwavered and they love
And so I held my heart lest I loose sight
And chaste a shield to hide malicious sores
And fame a mean to be in utter might
And worthy ones be bound to less of worth
And those unworthy are to gain respect
And those who love are put in meanest mirth
And those who love disdained are not abject
VII
O fie it life , I spit on it the blood
That made me man and called a man of shame
VIII
But soft O lord, , when soul mates meet in chance
Their hearts burn love, and hug and turn in one
They told; to love means to that a seconds glance;
Is bound to thee to get what love has done
O love doth burn when stiffed thou at her sight
O why alive if eyes do not enchant?
And why pretend that you are not a knight
That kiss her sweet the lips and love her grant
O when she golden as the purest fawn;
IX
A varlet dream that out this living world
Hath turned me mad of knaves I see and note
I loathed them all, o winds let mind be hurled
And never more shall taste their dullish dote
A country born not from this mortal life;
Embossed my logic mind and lit my heart
And thrust me straight as though a knife
Hath turn my meanest self to sluttish parts
It shone in darkest nights of darkened dark
And stood as fair a maid and pure a light
Vouchsafed me fate: a sign of lasting mark
And dwelt in me a star that ever bright
X
Mother! It is my mind that travels far
Then all at once; alights herein again
It is the life; that you did fade and mar
It is you that; I never longed to yen
It is me that reposed to love thee back
It is the lasting shout that bid me stay
Stubborn I left thee pale and held the pack
And bleeding was my heart that shouted nay!
Ye loved me true! To thee; I was no fit
Mother: I was to pout the rags I wore
Mother: I cry of ache and love acquit
Mother: if only take the hate I bore
XI
Ever odd, change not, nor show a sign of wit
I walk as though to flee my troubled mind
And talk as though to stammer words a spit
And think me wise but strange the thoughts I find
XII
Im dead, inside me ghosts and thoughts of death
O sweet thou shant compel me good of will
I lost it faith in thee and lost my breath
Divided if, or falsely made of ill
And if live I to see me put a shame
To those abject to scanty want of life
O looks and piercing thorns of lasting pain
O life, I shall forsake and stop the strife
O let me stain my soul with earthy dirt
My bleeding eye became of white to see
Entangling hands in silent want convert
XIII
The airy balm of todays noble heat
Hath brought me twice an old friend of the past
She was still young and cloying roses sweet
And still she fair though beauty never lasts
Her eyes did look, but still she wondered more
And being shy diverted she her eyes
Again she looked and then she made of sure
Her hair she placed and then she made a sigh
But coward I, my veins run cold and numb
And blinded I, did look as though a strange
To her that sat, and begged my heart to come
Bitter I left, and leaving I arranged
XIV
Saith he: trow I thine life the least of worse
Probe I thy face a tranquil paint of joy;
Bothers me none, no man can thee a verse
Outlive, nor see I mundane signs of coy
I see betwixt the moon and sun a light
A word, that love itself shall never be
A word, that hath a sound of hissing rites
A word that lit thy face and colored thee
Say I, of wrongs that ye hath yet committed
Of judging ill, and probing me the rife
Thine wit is short, and thus ye canst predict
Thou canst perceive the most oppressive life
XV
What love! That man canst not forbid to see
Is it a force most strange and full of awe?
Say nay, and never love and never plea
Love is a curse that never breaks a law
Love is a beast that kiss us most gentle
XVI
Unjust is love and more unjust to love
My mistress fair that bids my heart to come
She seems a queen, yet wears no crown above
Her looks are cold but yet they turned me numb
She said: my love! You are a knight a see
But soft! I mount no steed and wear no arms
She said: o dear! So oft I dreamt of thee
Alas! I say, but dear! Sleep hath no charms
O no, now she begins to kiss me quick
I say! My love, you never let me speak
And now, she stops and gins to use her tricks
XVII
And gone, and I will never see her face
My friend but I wish that she was of more
All days are now empty without embrace
And gone, her scent I will always adore
Forgive me love, that I hath loved thee once
And dared my love to think of thee so oft
When I walk near, and I note thy fragrance
Methinks that wind hath never been so soft
My dreams are rough, my heart is chiding me
Thy ghost is here with me all nights and days
It laughs at me then it resembles thee
Forgive me love that I hath dared to play
XVIII
I am no man, nor I a knight that owns
A sword, and conquers lands and boasts alike
I am no bold, nor hath a thousand throne
Nor fair am I , nor far from heavens spite
I have for thee but love and grant thee much
As much as hills can bear and mountain tops
Can jostle reaching farther heights and such
A lovers sign, hath not an end to stop.
I do no tricks, deceitful not as thee
Though love is blind, I see but scorn and hate
Still love you thus, as high as you can be
Though know thee well, still know not I my fate
XIX
Forgive the mind, my lass for letting thee
Thus bare to time, thus bidding me alone
For I tormented mine and I shall be
Lamenting fate that kept us thus unknown
I reckoned that, I shall never be thine
XX
A poet I , his role divine, his soul;
Is lost, in deepest dark and meanest dearth
His words belike a flame to heated coal
For none do hear, and none doth deem the worth
I know that love is dead, no longer lives
And that to love, and haply to be loved
Is not a plain a word, this bound to give
Thine heart a task, thine soul a taste of love
This love of modern man is false and dead
The reasons that, this can be loved and others nay
Is that repelling is a maid too fed
And thus, be born a man or else to say
XXI
A mistress tempted me to sin amiss
In love forlorn was I a man of fate
Begging I did, my lips did beg a kiss
But neither met, nor fed the whetted bait
I said: in morrows early sight of day
We shall anon meet far of peoples looks
I shall hold tight of you and start the play
O kiss me quick my love beneath the brook
And thus we met and marched toward the bush
Put she her arm upon my collars parts
Beating my heart, I tried to gin a push
Seeking her neck, kissing her lips apart
Sighing did she reddened I saw her face
That shouted lust, my mistress did she shout:
O nay stop thou said she scudding apace
Tread on my field and pluck the flower out
Hillocks are round for thee to step upon
If willst thou may conquer the roughest side
Then why do crimson wax to red and hot
Random
Poems
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I
One day' when clouded skies did hide
Behind the shield of unwilling colors
And fainting dark as when the wind chides
It hung and loose belike an anchor..
The rain fell on my face and poured
From all the sides,and kissed me soft
I kissed it back, and kissing more
I sought to sink' in kissing oft.
Crossing the bridge i held a scarf
II
I shall not forget the yellow monster
Whose eyes are but a laughter of my state
Whose sweet smile is a dripping venom
That shakes my leaves of autumn
They stabs of this dagger
Do taboo, my generous matter
And darken my shades
I shall not forget
That hair and silky milk
That makes me sink
In seas of golden fate
And laughs upon my state
III
O say not more
That I adore
To die afore
See her no more
O tell me how
She doth allow
My heart to vow
An oath to flow
O stop the wind
O lord it shinned
Her skirt it skinned
Those legs it sinned
O may I miss
Thy lips a kiss
And ear a hiss
An utter bliss
O lord she laughs
And tease me chaff
And tears my half
On my behalf
IV
Tis again I feel inside my veins and heart
That I must needs a further treatment fast
Ere winds do take the lasting pain apart
Convulsive thoughts of sooner love to last
I beg the fate a fairer love to grant
And never let my heart to all beloving chant
This soon to come, the coldest fooling night
The tendrils sweetest dew upon my eyes
The gestures of the sun before her sight
And all the moving of her hairs belied
Attaining life on every breath I make
And looking false to keep me of her ache
This love of yours is hotness I not feel
The winter of your smile when passing winds
And fainted ghosts do greet thee and do cheer
I beg thee not to put aside my chin
A harsher pride, a blunted sense of hate
For both are death and are a lovers fate
Twas but a day I lived the blinded morn
Did haunt the shadows oft behind the hills
Before the light could rise and thus be born
The sun did hunt the moon and thusly killed
V
Woman, a word of two syllables contain
A farther aim, thus to rather sustain
Power and sacredness
Desire do not partly touch it still
Though fathers may be tempted beyond reach
And those who dont relate to fathers leash
Are alike in temptation
A woman has a harsher tone than a bears roaring, or a seas foaming
Though delicate that tone may be, and sweeter than a look may seem
A woman is never reigned, because neither a land nor a subject she
Her feelings are like a soft winters leaf
A wind it blows unassailed but yet it sends relief
You may assume that a womans weakest part is conquered, so oft, so easily
discovered
But mind your thoughts, for weakness a weapon to arm the frailest cause
And turn it recovered
Hail for a day of joy, we shout, may our voice and shouting reach the sky
Prick the wandering clouds of windy weather and passing stars
Let the mountain tops, be lifted high, let the horses small and big, fret and
nigh
Today a day of love we cheer not for
But beholding a greater cause, the womans voice, a pitch a harshly sweet
voice
That shall aim to chant ears of humanity, that malice has eaten up their
rotten hearts and replace it savage
One billion rising, their hands above their heads, to scream one word :
woman
Cry one cause: justice
Let us be one, join our souls , so the unfortunate may deem life a fortune is
Though a beggar he may thusly live
VI
I see asses white and red
VII
Keep me thus wailing for thee
Waiting for a moments sight
Of thee
Though fault may be shared
You tend to tie me with
Thou knowst me not, nor figures thou my highest aim
To thee
Art thou still mad? For thou did err
To me
And erring hath, parted us each apart
To thee;
I took my share of angers want
With thee
VIII
And reckonst thou I never loved afore?
O speak but truth, whyfore a chance of love
Thou lackst to give my heart a chance whyfore?
I said my self shall never touch again
That feather pen, that ink is floating shore
And said, compel me not, o love do not
Be thus a word that joints do tremble hot
And failed attempting most disgraceful fight
And drank and forced my heart a maidens light
Why thus my heart is weakened of thy sight?
Why dost the sun ascends the mighty sky?
And breathes and heavy flames do reach my eye
Is that but love? That red is thus and white?
Is that but thee a bird most tuneful and most bright?
Tis but a chance I ask, I beg if wast I told
Is hard to love, tis but a lad I stand
IX
From the rock-like collapsed
And the qualms of the derived and dispirited
Lo magical, lo tuneful
The smiley melodious nightingale
I lament passion and my broken heart
And the strains of the tyrannous mighty
The encroaching pain of love, the oppressive
The bothers of sultan and the arrogant
Hear my words and all my howling
And sip tears from my hollow eyes
And with tone quill pain my smile
I then, I free bird reach the firmament
The lass my heart adored, hath tormented
My delicate soul and prided
The heaven-like beauty
And changed from and angel to be
A tyrannical usurper and tyrannized
Though I love the eyes: Their bashfulness
And adore the single curl of golden hairs
The wench snubbed my begging and the eyelashes
X
Emma: my sweet loving maid
Your eyes hath my soul made
A barren field of broken promises
XI
XII
Let my soul be free thou beast thou wench
And ditched away be, sayst thou thy lips the crimson?
Thinkst thou twice, for crimson hath never proved soft
The smile the fangs the claws of thine
Thou witherst life of lasting pain
And slayst thou the bloody moon
When walkst thou, the earth crackst and faintst and diest
How killst thou the bliss of love?
And eternal pain let thou bear
Until the ocean prove dark
And thy breath betaken to mere bark
Stained thou my bosom of blood
Of true passion and thorns of sober looks
Pricked my course of longing and yearning youth
XIII
The inconstant stars
As high as they may be
Hath slant power to mar
The days of mine as to be
as auspicious as my night
grant me hope and endless rights
to seek my fate
my eternal fate
XIV
I the lad of yonder air
Killst the desire of mine with a dagger belike a nail
Mislike not my temper
For the moon doth pity my state of the kind
XV
Come and ask my hand
If my parents desireth thee not
Let us both sacrifice our souls
To nature
Let us be bare like a babe
Incorporate with one soul
And drink our tears in pain
To the firmament let us fly
Until our feet the sun disgrace
And be as one to none be debased
XVI
It has been a constant dream
Ever since my eyes fortold
A heaven-like place and seen
My fate in it and sold
My present and all the past
Walking under the rain
I try to touch that holy rain
And feel my eternal joy of hope
And utterly forget my lasting pain
O if I only kiss that ground
And besmear my self in that bound
Of longing love and burning sounds
Id never let go these streets
These people and smiling subways
When sit in national parks and sleep
Beside lady America and paved ways
Can my voice ever reach you
XVII
Ive started to deem my self unhuman
For when my heart craveth to love
I reprimand its desire and to none
Hand my passion and be as a glove
In one hand and the other sealed
How can bashfulness become a leash
To my veins and all my parts?
How comest that mine eyes beseech
Not to love when love askst to depart?
If love were a force, man would love
XVIII
I see it as I wander
The spirit of love
Enshrines each soul with the other
And make celestial of the doves
That spell the name of misery
The time I look into my memory
I see it as I wander
The spirit of love
Makest my soul tormented the more
My heart I vow to adore
And tear the sense of life
XIX
Falsely in love or lovingly false
When doth she lie I knowingly kiss
Those lips of crimson those utterly bliss
And hug her tight and vouch my love
And worship the honey of her breath
And breathe again
And Im alive again
XX
For heavens sakes
Tell me how doth the souls meet in one?
How doth the eye admire the other?
How doth humans be in love?
For Im lost in wonders
And my eyes doth bleed
Of the sight of lovers love embodied
XXI
Women art but a prey to men
XXII
She says: son thou art changed!
I reply: I wish I were
For then: Id not the looks estranged be
And for heavens sakes not err
She says: son, why art thou late?
I reply: I wish I were
Sitting on shores, tossing my bate
Kissing her, and seized, be not astir
XXIII
Turn thine eyes away
For they doth prepare to die astray
The moment thou make them bide
By the lasss eyes, and those are tides
That move the man to fade
And crave hell, be it his fate
Cease to look, and hope to be
A brother to love, for it loath thee
And makes thine heart suffer the more
Thou wish to die aside its shore
Put your eyes a better place
Ere thou regrets it too late
Tmay be for thou cant stand
XXIV
I try to vouch it, but Im tried
For fair is the sun that rise and shine
And too fair is unfair to all men
Thusly we strife belike a hen
To admire and be admired
We worship the eye and breathe
The air she breath and bequeath
Be we it, and twenty times we die
XXV
She is everything I long for
She possesses an angel heart
She grants me sweet smiles
Mine heart smiles and larks
My face is abashed to belie
My face is ashamed to adore
She is everything I long for
She asks me to wee her
She wants my hands to err
In the sin of love and noble shores
My sweet mistress of yonder west
Is the mountain asked by the winds
To move?
Hath the sun asked the moons decease
To prove?
She is everything I asked for
She owes me life and life
Is as precious so as to implore
A lover be and cut the veins a knife
She is everything I asked for
She encounters my eyes
XXVI
I am to thee forever bound
I vouch it proud and gay
That mine rhymes shall be found
As consistent as the mere decay
Of free rhymes, which I cant tell
XXVII
She is as sweet as the rain drops
XXVIII
This world is unfit for poets hearts
For we tend to hide our passions parts
And let them be into forms of words
Transported, and we eat loves worms
Instead of being in utter bliss
And we watch the hogs every dying kiss
And sit in silent pain and behold alike
Unworthy people deeming themselves the like
We are unfit as poets to breathe
The air that is by life bequeathed
We are left as poets to rot
Beside the reeking coffins and naught
Be we as poets, I truly cry
XXIX
Afore man would say:
I am a man still, why afeared?
Of womens looks and why stay?
Away from their sweetest shield
Afore man would spit the blood
On a womans filthiest dirt
XXX
She is gone, now forever
She will devote herself to god
She will look her face in bitter
On the windows glass and nod
Beseeming my shadowed face
She is gone now all together
With the scent of her curly hair
And the shade of her figures blur
The pearly smiles with heavens despair
Beseeming my shadowed face..
She is gone now together
We were alike in shyness
We used to wait for time to alter
What have our hearts imposed on us
Beseeming my shadowed face
She is gone now forever
I will regret my blinded looks
That forbade my hearts wish and never
Vouch my passion to sealed books
Nor wait my hearts bleeding
Nor in vain burry my feelings
XXXI
Those eyes of honey sweet
Have moved my heart to tears
Marry me sweetheart and be my love
Forever I will call thee my love
XXXII
When thou doddered be
And the forty stars
The moon vampst thee
And all the planets apart
When thine cheeks blush
The sun riseth the earth
When doth the cheek flush
We outlive the dismal dearth
When wind flirt thine hairs
And forehead dimly kiss
Golden the curls and fair
That we are all amiss
When thine lips utter or move
XXXIII
May I hiss thee a love ditty
And call thee a bird
Kiss thee, and hug your head in the breeze
In graves of bones that lovers sobs yet whirred
Albeit a gate that kept us far in yearn
XXXIV
The wind hurled and morns dawn
Struck the air with dews wet cold
And suns heat turned hell
XXXV
Man is a fault that walks by lust and those
Are blind that see but lust and cry but lust
If only I those blindful men
Hang up, and up and up,, till I their hearts
Fix up, and hold the sign that shines in gold
That man is man and never shall man doubt
XXXVI
Said she: I wonder how the time could turn
My sir in this exact hour of day?
I said: it is before the noon could burn
And saying this her eyes did ask me stay
We looked and time is gone for us to look
She laughed and laughing thus we fell in love
But lacking wit I ceased my looks to hook
Away she went after we fell in love
XXXVII
Thou art the glowing moon
In a summer's night
And a blushing angel smiling, sweet bright.
I beseech thine eyes through the wandering cloud.
When a celestial light drew thee shy
And gave thee the beauty of the moon.
Thou art but a remedy to the dying cure.
And a prophet with a prophecy to the poor.
Thine eyes when look are a pearl so pure.
In faith! My fate is in their light so sure.
XXXVIII
Thou art the honey that looms
And drops over the mountain
Thy dreams do persist the falling
And nigntly prick the bosoms lightly
Thine beauty is torn and cut in twain
Doth the eye and lip be stain'd
For not the wolf nor beast you fear'st
Nor the dark thy shadow can bear
Thou art the bleeding sun
That stings us all and shun
And doth the air and earth
forbear to be or see and mirth
XXXIX
Sweet dreams methinks I see of you
A life of heaven's fields I blink
A life of merry lust I drink
O' dusks, dawns, and whirling waves
Heil ye that spits the flame and sways
{the golden fate}
I shall send my soul to live forever free
I shall retrieve my breath and lights of thee.
{Of golden fate}
XL
Though my heart is slain
Thou my heart is slain.
And my soul is cut in twain.
I shall not give my heart to the grieves.
Nor let the stars torment my dreams.
I shall astride and chase my fate.
And keep my heart to god's sake.
XLI
Thou mother knowst none
Keep the lad in grief and shun;
The shades of his.
Know ye how to cure his sober heart?
And drag the dark grieves apart?
XLII
The winds of tis' season'd day doth torment
A lad's eye,
Doth with blasting looks mar the sacrosanct.
And with burn'd sighs:
I the lad with poignant heart and bloody soul,
With qualms, spells, and charms,
Hear, the sun, O' the sun,
Dost forbid the sores and shun,
Me' I the stone of wandering stars
Of this seance, of cursing charms.
Albeit the slain moon, was to laugh
And strew my grave a rose and half.
The winds the sun asked my state.
And the sun, O' the sun ,dost the stabs of life forsee,
XLIII
Be not upset
Be not upset my love be not upset
The dark shall sink thy face again
And 'gin to kiss thee light and lift thy head
A maidenhead is not a shield to men
Be not upset, I did thine eyes evade
Reproach' me not; be not a woeful wench
My heart is weak and tis but short decayed
Do not a tear thine eyes torment to quench.
I am a man, blame not a man to love
A man is thusly made, to love and live
A man is ought to dream and seek to love
XLIV
I bleed, my heart doth bleed with pain
And cold i feel within my veins
I never had a lover's face
I never had a lover's fate
And so, I live as though my life
A blooded soul, a wheted knife
I never had a soul, a lass
To light my dark and heart surpass
Maybe i will be loved when dark
Composeth earth and sends a mark
Forgive me O, O chide me not
I planned not this nor wast i taught
Tis but that heart do bid me love
Though failed afore to be beloved
Say not that madness wast my name
XLV
Likewise Thou art; unlike the like
If stars do shine' my love be thus a light
Be shy a maid' be up and high alike
My love if love canst see aright
Cry not' love's not a priceless sold
Love's bold' love's but a dream to sleep
Hither come' art thee a joyful bold
Stay thus 'lie not' be not a snake to creep.
A blonded wench' a color'd sun
Thou art! true white belike the moon
Full red' and slightly pink and dun
Abash'd and fair as if to swoon.
Love Me; though hurt by love afore
I ask a wish' For long my way
To be a Man whose heart a shore
XLVI
Methinks I' seen as much of hands
As doth the sea of golden sands
Entangled are, in passion lock'd
Under a spell that chanted love
But hands of mine hath not adjoined;
A softer hand and never foil'd
Alone I was, a lonesome lad
His heart is numb, his soul is sad
His lips a flame that needed rain
To quench and to abate the pain
His hands a field without a drop
Of passion for his grief to stop
To stop what time hath wrongly err'd
A complexion most odd and spurr'd
Without a soul likewise his own
To lessen pain and chant a tone.
XLVII
Art thee a jubilant my dear?
For god hath made thee fair
God hath ordered hills to hear
That earthy good hath made thee rare
Art thee arrogant my dear?
For both we trow' that glare
Hath made thy eyes a sneer
And made thy looks a flare
Art thee proud my dear?
For thou wert made to dare
The bloody moon' a tear
The sun that shaped thy hair...
Art thee wane my dear?
For I hath quick declared
That heart is thus sincere,
In loving thee to swear...
Art thee shy my dear?
Say not such lies to spare..
My love to thee, and jeer
XLVIII
We both trow my dear that thou art a sun
And when the cloud reaches the mighty sun
Golden as the strikes of yonder east
Plentiful as a nightly joyful feast
Thou mayst dream of days art but a rose
And that the rivers art belike the wine
Smiling my lovd and thithdr goes
A mountain wailed
The sun
Tis done
XLIX
O love, my fear of thee prevents living
Lest wrong my heart or wrong thee giving
For then, all of my actions change and bind
As when my soul another mate it finds
O love thy name provokest my bones shaking
For it dost grow as minutes keep moving
As cold desire hence to lose its siege
And burning fire, a new born heart to give
Inexperienced in love am I growing
As virgins fear, to blood-drop loosing
So is my hand if met with hands of thine
It witherst fast as flowers ere their time
L
No sweet words can thy beauty prove
Nor is there tongues to praise thy sooth
In love forlorn, I do thee wrong
To love thee much and tie my tongue
LI
O look in times how beauty wast defined
And still defined, is it by faces fair
See how the white, well painted and divine
Seekst not the color white, but only dare
To be in marriage bound to fairest white
And colored are, by due of likeness seek
To be well-saved by colored faces night
And only choose the best accordant sweet
Thus all the colors in their faces live
And so they love, and so they shall be loved
But all discordant faces bare and dimmd
LII
Aside the yellow leaves of sycamore
I shivered cold and turned as pale
O soft the breeze that played my single hairs
LIII
And thinks herself an angel be
That of some blood, be rushing bold
From vein to vein and face of red
Boasts of divine and yellow stripes
And shuns she all prospects alone
Epic Poems
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I
The sun that hides behind the cloud
And shines above the fairest sound
Alike do hide, do hide and shine
Thus winter comes and veins do die
II
Unruly morn steps to announce the day
When did she lay upon her bed to rest
And twisting thus her golden curls," the rays
Art nearing close to feed the beauty's nest
The morn"
Is not to leave the face of heaven's gem
The morn"
Is hence a warning sign to all a maid
The dawn"
Is darwing soon to rise above the stem
The dawn"
Auspicious as the death of hearts afraid
Thy voice'
Speak thou angel" Tis sound I hear when dark
Coverth the Earth' the wanton and the wise
III
O' cloud: I trow thee thunder'd; dark
A sharp red sigh methinks I hark
I never saw thee stone the night;
Most sharp, or else a loving sight
Thou cry it wing'd-broken bird
IV
As others are in loving locks be drunk
Urge I myself be seen as lovers are
Hands with each mate, in passion join'd and sunk
And close are they, and heavy as a star
V
What may befall; I may avoid but I ;
To love afore I swore an oath of love.
'But forsooth' said she. Be bless'd that made her gold.
Be bound that spell her name in howling snow..
She stole me life; but I aloofed the life.
She bore a torch that took the glow of life,
VI
Lo that with all my burning motions feel
Lo that with howling winds to bones
Fair land of mine, my heart is thine to heal
And blissful wish bestow my dullish tones
If that myself could die another born
Another life within thy noble soil arise
My tears to quench as prayers in the morn
Free verse
I
The cloud embraced the pinky sun
It blushed
And dreamt that days
Be rosy
And rivers winey run
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With his eyes the cloud embraced;
The pinky sun
She smiled
And smiling pearls
As warming spring
And fairy birds anon;
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The cloud embraced the pinky sun
It blushed
His pinky sun..
My pinky sun...
Oh' the pinky sun
Tis' done.....
II
I know that Im not attractive...
I know that no one has ever fallen in love with me...
But I like you...
And I can give you as much as You need of love...
I will be faithful...
As I used to be...
As I am all the time...
I will hold your hand...
So don't startle...
Be calm.. Because I will try to embrace your lips .. In eternal kiss of passion.
That your heart will beg me to stop.
Will blame me for staining your lips..
We are different..
And don't know each other well..
But yet I like you still..
You seem not like me..
You are fairer.. You are divine.. You are special..
You see.. I am unfortunate.. Because you will never be mine.. Destiny will
never gather our souls...
But i care not about destiny...
For it gives no hope...
It separates us apart..
It never says the truth..
My dear, for this cause, i will keep looking into your eyes..
And dream loftily about your smile..
And smile back..
I try to hug your small delicate joints.. Like a shivering bird in a Christmas
eve..
Hug me back.. Hotness is a choice for us..
Coldness is a lie.
Are you afraid?.. To be with me...
Fear me not..
I am as simple as a word'..
As a sign in the street..
You need not to think..
To be in a state of awe..
Just forget the past, the present, and ignore future..
III
I shall love again...
No one likes me..
Its just sad..
To think of the reason of this...
Though i know it not..
Everybody fears me..
Some people I hate contempt me ..
I tell them that..
I care not of that..
I dare say...
That my heart is flint-like.
I will overlook the one..
Girl...
That will overlook me..
And I will try..
To love again..
Even if...
My heart bleeds..
I shall love again...
As hard as it seems..
I will love...
For I am a human..
And I need love..
For I see that silent creatures...
Seek to love ..
In the dark...
And at the brook..
Under the sun's heat.
I am unfortunate..
For I was never fair...
A prince i was not born..
And I regret that..
For this world is cruel..
And I need be fair to live..
I need be a prince so people believe..
That my heart is clean...
And my hands are not stained with deceitfulness..
I regret that my life wasn't a dream..
Ordinary was my life..
Boldness was not my name...
IV
I cannot hold a tear
for I love
I love you my dear
Though love
Is not my fate, nor is it my friend.
I cannot put a smile
for I know
That you are divine
And I know
That I am a stone in your shore.
I cannot tell my heart
For I think
That you shall depart
And I think
That you will hate my sight
I cannot flirt your beauty
For I fear
That words are dead
And I fear
That my veins are cold
I never had such fear
The thought of saying
That the sun gave birth to you
And that the moon was the midwife.
The stars were thine siblings
And venus thine sign
The Earth thine Scorn
And March thine Fate.
Just the thought of vouching a word
That thy hair I love
Thine hands I dream to hold
Thy eyes I dally
Thy face adore
thy lips I kiss.
Trembling my dear
V
Water.. no pebbles in or out
No winds to move or wave
Not disturbed
Unmannered yet as brave
VI
All the worlds in love
With you
Your scent
From my part
And can use my gift
To grant you a better start
And softer ending
I prove that love
Is not two-faced
Not shared with two
Not mocked
And used as truth
My love for you
Is more
Than the sky can hold
And mountains bold
Abstain the burden
My love is one
Not shared not rivaled
My love is you
And you my love
Born by you
And dead in you
Sweet land
Though bitter prove
Will drink my fate
Full and willing
To be with you
Sweet place
Here
I make it clear
And swear in love
No heavensno gods
No demonsno hell
Shall take my lot
No love
They share your love
And betray
That name of yours
They let that love
That passion
Bleed red
In the streets
In a new fashion
VII
They want me to write
About my country
And hail its name
In the 21st century
They want me to speak
Of great old times
And future hopes
And speak of new generations
Eyed with admiration
And record
Their names in history
In eternal victory
But I cant find my country
Its lost and empty
All I see is barren
And wrinkled beauty
No future I see
Only a time without a name
That holds to past
And fears the present
Its called: a shame
No young hearts to record
Only lost and empty souls
No wise ones to record
Only dead and empty holes
VIII
If my love to you
Were declared
In public places
And judging courts
If my love
Were outspoken
And outplaced
To all mankind
Then love is hate
All people find
I declare:
That man is bound to beauty
This my woman
A peasant whore
Beaten to death
By life
Its husband
Losing its breath
In struggling
To succumb
Lost in ignorance and conflict
My woman
Is ugly with age
And wrinkled with beauty
My woman
Is mortal dead
And lost to time
My woman
Is old
My woman
An ancient lie
I one of my dreams
The darkest
I find a woman
So different yet familiar
Her breast is green
Fully ripe and young
My woman
A modern whore
Shes bold
Alive and nimble
Not barren and cold
Shes single
Shes life
In this woman
Beauty speaks
And age bemuffed
History dies
And future lives
This love
That I hold
Will live forever
Above the clouds
May it break loose
The shackles in me
That keep me deaf
And blind
My love is justified
This not love
Its patriotism
Misplaced
Its new love
That fuels racism
And hate
Its a struggle to be
IX
I will outbreak
The laws of poetry
And lynch his body
To death
I will outlive
The poets
Whose words are dead
And names are left
In lawful perjury
I will name
My kingdom
Bardatry
And crown my muse
A knight
My metaphors
Servants
And love:
Adultery
I am the man
Whose words can flame
A dead hypocrisy
Shame nations
And break idolatry
My words
My poetry
Is a new form
A new policy
To rule the earth
And cure insanity
An eternal artistry
To mock humanity
X
Your lips
I will bite and bleed
Your lips
Until your heart stops to beat
Your lips
My sweetheart
Your lips
I will suck
Your lips
And drink their waters
Your lips
Like heaven showers
I will flatter
Your tongue
Inside his castle
And I will batter
Your lips
Using my tricks
Will gain their sweets
Your lips
I will kiss
Your lips
Like hunger-stricken
And feed my lips
Your lips
And caress your hips
Using my lips
To thirsty tongues
And desert lips
O your lips
Will lonely starve
In the dark
Will not be kissed
The reason is not your lips
And small-sized hips
Your handy breasts
In both hands fit
Saws
I
A wise man might be wise but fool is he
If fools himself and think a wise may be
II
O love! I hate thee but, I love thee more
I love thee more than moon can sun adore
O bid me come! O coming let it be
I am in love and thou shalt shelter me
III
Not for all men joy is a right
Unworthy is to be a knight
And those to worth are to take sight
Of those who flirt with joys spite
IV
A mistress hath a playful mind
For men of lust to catch and find
I am alike in want but she
Showst none to me nor seek to be
Twining hands are taboo but they
Do twin hands and aloof betray
V
Thou canst address predators
Animals speak not
I will astride the world until my feet swell and my hands the blood resemble
My life is crimson like, but crimson tastest the blood, the gall chokest
VI
Thus whiteness joined is with the white
The end