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by Ann Foxglove

Friday 26th March 2010 8:12 pm

I hate you!

You can’t even spell!

I love you!

Must be your secret smell!

Why is it ?

That I cannot resist?

I love you!

And that’s the final twist!

The pain!

Your beauty binds me so!

I love you!

And you will never know.

Surely

Behind those eyes so blue

I must see

The inner truth of you.

You fool me

With such cerulean gaze

You leave me

In my delirious haze

But are you

More than the sum of parts

And worthy

Of such a glorious heart?

This yearning

Will be the death of me

This longing

For what can never be!

painting by John Singer Sargent

Comments

Isobel

Sat 27th Mar 2010 08:13

I see your point now. Yes - picking on something totally unrelated would kind of prick the bubble of the whole thing.
I remember a teacher once asking the class what was attractive in the opposite sex. When I ventured 'nice teeth', everyone laughed but I was being serious...
I don't think he appreciated it for some reason - perhaps his were on the way out.

Ann Foxglove

Sat 27th Mar 2010 06:04

Um. I guess the spelling issue was supposed to imply a more general lack of communication between two people, not on the same wavelength type of thing, maybe if you were trying to distance yourself from someone you're attracted to. But I'm not very good at spelling anyway! And I agree you wouldn't fall for someone cos they were a good speller! But that's the point of the poem maybe?

Isobel

Fri 26th Mar 2010 23:55

Well Ann - I must confess that spelling has never drawn or repelled me from a man so that is a new one on me! I guess that some level of literacy is nice to have though, especially if you are of a poetic disposition. Just so long as he knows how to use his dictionary...

Ann Foxglove

Fri 26th Mar 2010 20:59

Or a just a little bit misguided? Or too romantic for her own good? Or just plain daft!! (The latter I suspect!)

Dave Carr

Fri 26th Mar 2010 20:34

A tortured soul.

Ann Foxglove

Fri 26th Mar 2010 20:14

My answer to Isobel's poem perhaps?

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