Every one, I believe, has gone through what so called a crush. Boys and girls, men and women, grandma and grandpa, they are all got their first experience with love. Love, is the sole thing that seized all creatures. Even a flower, who cannot speak, can show their need of attention by having a colorful blossom. They need to love and be loved also (Sounds familiar? I got it after watching the color purple. Celie need to be loved). By the way, what I am to discuss here to ye all ladies and gentlemen, are love of a man; a man who certainly has the deepest love ever sown.
If a man has to express his feeling of love, at least to himself, I bet a poem is one of the first stuff they will dig in. A poem may somehow affect a lover so deep and also reflect his feeling. That's why the most remembered poem is a love poem. And the most in number poems which fill a poetry site is also love poem. Love poem is eternal and omnipresent just like God himself—I'm kidding, certainly. Out from that bunch of thousands love poems in this sad sick little world, I give you this five most "cool poems" that you have to look out. I call it five inspiring poems to flirt a fair lady.
The first is from Shakespeare's Twelft Night. I will just quote it:
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know
It's pretty nice to keep it for making a move huh? Imagine when you read it in front of a girl and she got a flush of excitement, what a romantic scene. This following one is also cool, but it has been a cliché:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
I saw a guy remarked it in Dead Poet Society, so I think it must be frequently remarked. However, it still works I think. The guy impressed his girl with that Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII. She loves it the most.
The second comes from William Blake, and this poem literally titled love:
What is it men in women do require?
A lineament of gratified desire
What is it women in men do require?
A lineament of gratified desire
I think this poem is telling us about the happiness that is reflected after a man and a woman make love. You know, after making love they sleep together; the women hug their mate with a sweet smile of "gratified desire" and so does the man. Hmm…quite make sense. What if you tell your girl that stuff after you both having sex?
The third comes from Langston Hughes and it has a title breath of a rose:
Love is like perfume
In the heart of a rose
The flower withers,
The perfume goes—
Love is no more
Than the breath of a rose,
No more
Than the breath of a rose.
We all agree, I supposed, that he wants to say love is not eternal. It may disappear as "dew on lilacs at dawn, comes the swift sun and the dew is gone." So if you just being dumped, it's better for you to pray what he said is true. Read it a thousand times and hoping your previous feeling to her, who dumped you, will disappear somewhere in the firmament. You also can read it before her, and showing that you are tough enough.
The fourth comes from our beloved Sapardi Djoko Damono: guess which poem I've picked up? You're right, that one; aku ingin:
Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana:
Dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan
Kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu
Aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana:
Dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan
Awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada
I will not put a lot of comments on it. It's just simply romantic. But again, it has been a cliché. You know, I have seen that one printed on a card, and maybe there are still cards out there with "aku ingin" attached on it. However, I guess this one will work to a girl that doesn't read much. Because it's so familiar, everyone at least has heard about a piece of it.
The last poem comes from no poet. But it is also beautiful and really flirting:
A girl sweeter than sugar
Whose love is that on thy lips?
My I taste it
Or
Have it a little bit?
Why I think it is beautiful? Simply, it is work of my own. Someone's own poem will do better than others. The thing that makes it different is the feeling he pours into his work. Thus, when you want her to know your feeling, it's better to create your own poem. No matter how lacking of aesthetic taste it was, the point is it comes deep from your heart. Every one will appreciate an original work instead of claiming those poems above as yours. There will no fascist or philistine that read your works right? Believe me, a fascist or philistine no nothing about art since they don't know that art is seen through different eyes. A communication between the eyes and the object of art is the factor that determines the aesthetic value. Every eye has different standard and also different judgment. So, start right now. Make a poem and flirt a fair lady! Move you bastards!!!
:::Soedra:::