English Poetry

Never read this. Lovely.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

I dont think so.. now that you point it out.. btu it certainly seems like a very long time . maybe 15 years then ..


No my love.. never do that.. If someone else is not able to understand you .. it is their problem.. not yours . i never meant that I am gettign wrong or negative vibes from you. We can certainly have different opinions on lot of matters, and let each other know of that.. can't we? Just because we disagree, we should stop talking?
Let me assure you.. Me for once.. have never taken offence to anything you say. It always has been a delight to learn about different viewpoints, debate over them, thrash them out well : ). And I think most of the people around would agree to me.
You are an intelligent person and pleasurable to talk to. Please do not shut up.



Umm.. Expression of love is good. But often circumstances lead us to situations, where one has to let go of all the love, and yet go on with life. It is not always in best interest of both parties involved to keep loving each other.
It is not about hiding.. but acknowledging that (this)love cannot be fullfilled.



..this too is my fav Lalitha.. I think I have posted it on the thread.. or maybe just have with me.

I think ya around 15 yrs for me too. Was in school. Many were debating if it was written to God or a lover!!!!



No, I mean people seem to think I am angry when I express something. Bec I tend to think fast and passionately and intensely. And people reading think I am angry. I must be going wrong somewhere.
I do not mind disagreeing. Most of my closest friends have viewpoints diametrically opposite to mine.



Ya, I mean in regular relationships. True if a relationship cannot work, no pint in expressing. I had a friend madly in love with a guy. He too adored her. But they were of different castes. Grrr Nair and Namboodiri. Is that such a big deal? Both are high castes in Kerala. The guy's sister had eloped and been cut off from the family. The girl's father was an autocrat. We all knew they were in love but they never expressed it and married the ones their folks selected. That is understandable. No point creating heartache. I meant in normal relationships. Like parents and kids not being able to tell each other they care. Or husband and wife not revealing their feelings often due to pride or whatever mixed feelings. That is sad. Bec a little love can make life so beautiful.

My poetry books were all put in a box up on a shelf which I cannot reach. So many to share and enjoy otherwise.

Waise to 20 years ago as well I was in school (and so were you )

And.. Ive always felt it's addressed to a lover. The other idea did not even cross my mind.

Hmm. Hasten slowly...


In other words you are asking for a talll knight to fetch those books for you..
sigh!
use a chair or borrow staircase from that padosi of yours na...
and we better chitter chatter in some other thread.. before catch thorws us outtaa here for spamming.




... how much time does it take before we can look back not feel sad and smile at everything??

Na re. Me did not do Plus 2. I did Pre Degree in college. The system no longer exists. I did Litt and History for Pre-degree.



Me too.



U offering Amitoj?

Chair nahin hai mere ghar mein. I mean no hardy one. Only wrought iron with cushion. Not tall enough. Ladder of landlady is for outside use and too big. Me could climb but there may be lizards there. Then I will scream and fall down and break my head na.



Depends on the intensity of the feelings and the kind of experience.
Catch, don't throw us out. From such thots spring poetry na.

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[quote]Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.[/quote]

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It takes eternity (and more) to look back and not feel sad....

Love Unexpressed

The sweetest notes among the human heart-strings are dull with rust;
The sweetest chords, adjusted by the angels, are clogged with dust;
We pipe and pipe again our dreary music upon the self-same strains,
While sounds of crime, and fear, and desolation, come back in sad refrains.

On through the world we go, an army marching with listening ears,
Each longing, sighing, for the heavenly music he never hears;
Each longing, sighing, for a word of comfort, a word of tender praise,
A word of love, to cheer the endless journey of earth's hard, busy days.

They love us, and we know it; this suffices for reason's share.
Why should they pause to give that love expression with gentle care?
Why should they pause? But still our hearts are aching with all the gnawing pain
Of hungry love that longs to hear the music, and longs and longs in vain.

We love them, and they know it; if we falter, with fingers numb,
Among the unused strings of love's expression, the notes are dumb.
We shrink within ourselves in voiceless sorrow, leaving the words unsaid,
And, side by side with those we love the dearest, in silence on we tread.

Thus on we tread, and thus each heart in silence its fate fulfils,
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music beyond the distant hills.
The only difference of the love in heaven from love on earth below Is:
Here we love and know not how to tell it, and there we all shall know.

by : Constance Fenimore Woolson

This is Urs ZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U write well. U manage to rhyme and express Urself at the same time without appearing contrived!!!!!
And U control the feeling and flow. Really good.

Priyz ye tumne likha poem

Shivani is poet class-apart re!!!!!

Well, amazing na--I was reading all her poems. That one I quoted was in answer to banter but can hold its own as a poem without the HF context!!!
Imaginative gal, ZZZ.

Haan that stuff was mine.

Poetry ke bahane khullam khulla flirt kar rahe hain yeh dono!!!

Night

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon



So often in the course
Of life's few fleeting years
A single pleasure costs
The soul a thousand tears

Francis William Bourdillon

yo! Catch is a gal.. and I dont flirt with gals

also.. I dont flirt bahane se.. but khullam khulla