For Circe on the occasion of her wedding: The Fickle Muse (an Italian sonnet) (1666 hits)
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Submitted by Isaac Bickerstaff (View user info) at 2005-03-21 16:19:18 EST
The Fickle Muse
She never asks permission to demand
Of me that I accept her grudging ware;
Instead, to make my pen my soul to bare,
She forces all her powers to my hand.
Unbidden be our troth; I had not planned
To leave behind the love of earthly care
At her bequest to speak of my despair
In honeyed words that leave me thus unmanned.
While inner demons' scales are thick and rough,
A warrior's hide must be of surer stuff:
To stand the burning torture of her charms,
And lay aside my chipped and broken swords.
And seek instead a quest of darker harms,
To battle my heart's demons with her words.
-Isaac Bickerstaff
(March, 2005)
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Submitted by johnny.b.dumb (user info) at 2009-04-19 17:10:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
nice form
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-04-19 15:00:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-19 10:06:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-13 00:33:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
To top it all off, you could come back tomorrow and tear everyone apart in the poetry contest we're having.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-06-04 15:11:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
If this is me, I'm wasting an awful lot of time emailing back and forth to myself, and I have real emotional problems.
....No, it's not me.
Submitted by gina (user info) at 2005-05-28 17:09:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you write poetry like a girl. this is circe
Submitted by gina (user info) at 2005-05-28 16:52:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you are so circe
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2005-04-14 10:31:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
It would be a minus 2, but at least you didn't ruin the "getting my ass kicked" series by putting that in the title.
Submitted by ThineJericho (user info) at 2005-03-24 01:43:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Loved the "Ass Kicked in ..." series though.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-03-22 12:59:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
You've had better.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-03-22 07:54:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Thank you.
(Also, I did not.)
This is awesome.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-03-21 23:41:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-03-21 22:58:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
What the hell. +2 for you. And for Circe. And... awww fuck it, I'm going to go kill a small bunny and burn it in celebration of Circe's upcoming nuptuials.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-03-21 22:39:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
best poetry i've seen here so far...not surprising considering i hardly ever read poetry posts.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-03-21 20:15:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-21 17:34:06 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I've given you nothing but +2's...and THIS is how you repay my loayalty?
Good God, man.
PS.http://www.ubersite.com/m/62284
Submitted by matchstickman (user info) at 2005-03-21 17:25:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
greeting card kitsch my ass.
you could send this in to poetry.com and they'd put it in a book! for only $49.95!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-03-21 16:56:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Nicely done, Bickerstaff.
This is, however, an English sonnet (not Italian). Trifling detail.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-03-21 16:21:57 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Greeting card kitsch.