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Old 12-07-2003, 03:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Poem of the Week - Valentine

One of my all time favourites...


Quote:
Valentine by John Fuller

The things about you I appreciate
may seem indelicate:

I'd like to find you in the shower
And chase the soap for half an hour.
I'd like to have you in my power
and see your eyes dilate.
I'd like to have your back to scour
And other parts to lubricate.
Sometimes I feel it is my fate
To chase you screaming up a tower
or make you cower
By asking you to differentiate
Nietzsche from Schopenhauer.
I'd like to successfully guess your weight
and win you at a fete.
I'd like to offer you a flower.

I like the hair upon your shoulders,
Falling like water over boulders.
I like the shoulders, too: they are essential.
Your collar-bones have great potential
(I'd like all your particulars in folders
marked Confidential).

I like your cheeks, I like your nose,
I like the way your lips disclose
The neat arrangement of your teeth
(Half above and half beneath)
in rows.

I like your eyes, I like their fringes.
The way they focus on me gives me twinges.
Your upper arms drive me berserk.
I like the way your elbows work,
on hinges.

I like your wrists, I like your glands,
I like the fingers on your hands.
I'd like to teach them how to count,
And certain things we might exchange,
Something familiar for something strange.
I'd like to give you just the right amount
and get some change.

I like it when you tilt your cheek up.
I like the way you nod and hold a teacup.
I like your legs when you unwind them.
Even in trousers I don't mind them.
I like each softly-moulded kneecap.
I like the little crease behind them.
I'd always know, without a recap,
where to find them.

I like the sculpture of your ears.
I like the way your profile disappears
Whenever you decide to turn and face me.
I'd like to cross two hemispheres
and have you chase me.
I'd like to smuggle you across frontiers
Or sail with you at night into Tangiers.
I'd like you to embrace me.

I'd like to see you ironing your skirt
and cancelling other dates.
I'd like to button up your shirt.
I like the way your chest inflates.
I'd like to soothe you when you're hurt
Or frightened senseless by invertebrates.

I'd like you even if you were malign
And had a yen for sudden homicide.
I'd let you put insecticide
into my wine.
I'd even like you if you were the Bride of Frankenstein
Or something ghoulish out of Mamoulian's Jekyll and Hyde.
I'd even like you as my Julian of Norwich or Cathleen ni Houlihan
How melodramatic
If you were something muttering in attics
Like Mrs Rochester or a student of boolean mathematics.

You are the end of self-abuse.
You are the eternal feminine.
I'd like to find a good excuse
To call on you and find you in.
I'd like to put my hand beneath your chin.
And see you grin.
I'd like to taste your Charlotte Russe,
I'd like to feel my lips upon your skin,
I'd like to make you reproduce.

I'd like you in my confidence.
I'd like to be your second look.
I'd like to let you try the French Defence
and mate you with my rook.
I'd like to be your preference
and hence
I'd like to be around when you unhook.
I'd like to be your only audience,
The final name in your appointment book,
your future tense.

This poem always makes me smile. I suppose like all men who love their GFs or wives, I can wholly empathise with Fuller.

I remember when I was courting my wife (if that term is still used!), we used to often sit down home alone and talk for hours, drink wine and I'd read her poetry. It sounds corny now, like something out of Shakespeare, but it was fun and intense and moving and filled me with delicious anticipation. This was a favourite of mine. I can still remember reading it aloud and delighting in the sparkle of my then girlfriend's eyes.

This is a poem that needs to be read aloud. I love the play on words, the disjointed meter, the imagery.

So...

What do you think? Do you appreciate this poem? Does it remind you of how you felt, how you feel now? Or is it just some simple play on words that does nothing for you?

Discuss.



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Old 12-08-2003, 09:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I can't believe no one likes the above poem enough to comment!

:-)

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Old 12-08-2003, 09:46 PM   #3 (permalink)
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it's a good poem! It's so different from the "normal" poem.. I guess that's why I like it..it's unique.
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Old 12-08-2003, 11:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I read it over several times to myself, and I'm still puzzling it.

It's very different (though not necessarily in a bad way) from the poems I'm used to (standard highschool english reading poems, like Shakespeare, etc.). I ended up having to google some of the references, as I didn't understand them all, but I think it's an excellent poem - just a bit unusual (at least in my terms). Definitely good, though.

Nice find, Meph!
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Old 12-09-2003, 09:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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its very unique i like the poem i printed it out and my friends loveit also.... great
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Old 12-09-2003, 09:53 PM   #6 (permalink)
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i enjoyed it...thanks!
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Old 12-09-2003, 09:54 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I'll tell you what I think is amazing. The rhyming doesn't make it seem trite. I don't know how he did that!

Thanks for sharing that one Mephisto.
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Old 12-10-2003, 10:44 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Another good selection, yeah the way it sounds seems to hold an emotional context as well. The rush of feelings, the excitement, the words almost but not quite tumbling over one another. Kinda like the feelings you have for someone when you are truly in love. I hope to have it again someday.
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