Minding Shakespeare

True love(r) never dies, they say;
pun is more of a fun rhyme to sway.
As for whom this giggling heart
bleeds the most? Know, I always 
carry mine with me, ‘til I become pond water;
and hidden not in my eyes, often awake for love, 
as they easily show blushes of my thoughts,
ramping over the wall of judgment.
Alone I’ll not be and so is this dearest one; 
darkness though life brings... 
Among the sonnets, the 15th, my soul.
Too many secrets concealed, 
even as I speak, to death a name’s been willed!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008



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Date: 4/17/2009 2:41:00 AM
Compelling work...Raul
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Date: 12/29/2008 6:55:00 AM
Shakespeare is, undoubtedly timeless, and I believe we all need more to grow. However, I am hearing of your 100% indebtedness there in Greece, from a colleague here in America, a well known ecoomist, etc. Please go to the Web at www.larouchepub.com and listen to the December 27th archive, all through. They mention Greece: www.larouchepub.com Start a youth movement there, or whatever age group you are in. Waiting to hear from you! Paula
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Date: 11/24/2008 4:31:00 AM
Continued: The poeson in your poem: "never dies" - "awake for love" - "life brings" - "a name's been willed". (To over simplify: a poeson is a gestalt of inter-related entities of meaning that hold a poem together). The poeson isolated here deals with the intimate relationship of death with life, love and darkness. This is an inadequate explication of the poem, not an evaluation. This forum doesn't seem to require valuations?
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Date: 11/24/2008 4:26:00 AM
Continued: The last line in the Shakespeare sonnet: "As he takes from you, I engraft you new". Explication: The poet here defeats both the ravages of time and the onset of Decay as he plants (engrafts) his friend anew. - Now to your poem: "A true love(r) never dies" sets the scene and echoes the main theme in the Shakespeare sonnet. In my poetry course I teach a concept I've conceived, It's called "the poeson". In your poem one of the poesons is "never dies" - to be cont.
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Date: 11/24/2008 4:18:00 AM
Hello Ernesto An expert on Shakespeare wrote: "The group of sonnets 15-19 has been referred to as the third stage of Shakespeare's sonnets, in which the poet strives to immortalize his dear friend in verse, thereby saving him form the ravages of all-consuming Time. No line states more clearly this underlying theme than line 13 (in sonnet 15): And all in war with Time for love of you." The main theme in sonnet 15 is stated L14 of the Shakespeare sonnet:
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Date: 11/21/2008 9:12:00 PM
Gripping Ernie. God bless you. Michael Torres
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Date: 11/21/2008 3:03:00 PM
Umm I like the flow and feel to this Shakespearian style you wrote very nicely done with each line! Laura :)
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