Melissa Ann

InitialSwitch

TFTNT!

smilja Your work is beautiful as I said before. I can't wait to see what else you have!

Melissa Ann

I can't wait for more smilja!

smilja

Thank you, girls! It is so nice that we have a special thread for this. Great!


Title: A Funny Poem

Ever since I’ve seen his films here
at my home, small and wee,
things have changed, both far and near,
they’ve started to shine and talk to me.

My fridge is saying: "Take it, you may!"
when I hold my hand to catch some food.
I guess, he thinks I can eat without pray
not to put on weight and become crude.

Then my tap for water
speaks up loudly:
"Stop eating, it does matter!
The fridge is stupid, don't you see?"

One look through the window, and I clasp
a beautiful forest, although it's gray
and leafless in the winter’s grasp,
there sit birds, singing who say:

"Hello, beauty! How’s everything?
It's time to get up and happy to be!"
Oh, dear, what a delight! I now think,
that he has opened new senses in me.

InitialSwitch

That was cute. Thank you for posting. I enjoyed the tap arguing about the fridge.

Melissa Ann

Great work, I loved the closing line!

smilja

Title: It is So Easy to Fall in Love With You Again

It takes a few glimplses at your eyes,
a random selection of your films,
a few tones of your voice,
or just a wink of imagination
to raise my love for you.

Although, it took me years
to force myself to stay calm
before the glow of your forehead,
years to supress the effect
of your smiles,
or softness of your glance.

It costed me hundreds of nightmares
to prevent my dreams
conjuring you up,
it costed me muscule strains
to excorcize the traces of you
from my body.

And, look now! How easy it is
to jump into the ocean
of loving you again...
again.. again... again...

Melissa Ann

That is awesome!

I love the line "conjuring you up".

It's like he's not real you know.

InitialSwitch

Beautiful. You can really feel the desire to try not to get swept off your feet by him. Great job! :clapping:

Melissa Ann

^^ I agree. It's hard not to fantasize, but being that he is so grounded, in a way grounds you as well.

smilja

Thank you all for your nice comments. I hope this thread may be a place for posting beautiful poems written by famous poets, like the following one. He is one of my favourite poets, and his poems remind me of some of the Johnny Depp’s films, they are as mysterious as them, and as beautiful as him. I hope you will find it enjoyable to read as I do.

Walter De la Mare - The Listeners

"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence chomped the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor.

And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the traveler's head:
And he smote upon the door a second time;
"Is there anybody there?" he said.

But no one descended to the Traveler;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his gray eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.

But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:

Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveler's call.

And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf ,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;

For he suddenly smote the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:--
"Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word," he said.

Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:

Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Melissa Ann

That was intense! Thanks for sharing that!

I love the idea of sharing poems from other authors, which remind you of or make you think of Johnny.

Just remember to always credit the author, as you have already done!

InitialSwitch

Wow, that is a great poem. I can see why you like it.

Melissa Ann

I struggled in school with Poetry because I was getting one meaning and the teacher was like, no this is what it's saying.

In my mind I was like, isn't poetry up for your own interpretations? It really bothered me, but I grinned and did the work and still got an A, but it was annoying because it wasn't really what I felt you know.

I think now, I have more of an appreciation for poetry because no matter what, I take my own meaning from it, I will listen to opinions and share ideas of what something could mean, but for the most part, poetry is great for discussions!

smilja

Yes, Melika, I think you are right when saying that one of the poetry's main attraction is the fact that you are free to interpret it in your own way. Like life – we all live similar lives, but each of us finds his/her own, individual meaning of it.


Blessed Be Everyone
Who Reminds Me Of You

Under the branches
of white-bark birch,
bent under the burden
of flickering fog
(as you, sometimes,
burdened by glory,
hide from people's curiosity),
you've stopped to
wave your hand
and glisten your
pearly smile
to show the path
through the mellow
shine of birch forest.