#shakespeare poems on Hello Poetry

Hannah Anderson Jun 2014

Oh Shakespeare, how’d you know?
All about how we love
and what we do not show.
You knew the story from the very start
You knew it before I broke my heart.

I love you like the moon
and I love you like the sky
I love you till forever but
I can’t tell you why
Shakespeare knows all about us
he knew about the a party
and he knew about the star crossed love
Love is just too much.

That’s where it starts,
look back when
to a party or
a function or a
grand fancy-pants swaray .
Hey, Juliet-
Romeo can’t breathe without’cha
He can’t eat and he cant sleep
and he wants to be with you
Your running through his mind babe,
how bout it?

Hey, Romeo-
Juliet loved you rom the start.
She hated all your girlfriends
It pulled at her aching heart
She wants you to know all that she cannot say
so she’s writing you a love letter
oh, baby.

You knew about how it ended,
how our hearts broke into to
You knew about how I ached
and cried to think about him too.
It felt like death the serum from that medicine.

I should have thought about eternity
I thought you would always spend it forever here with me.
But who would have known that we gave up way too soon..
I should have thought it through
Before I blew off my parents
and said *******!

#love #you #about #know #we #all #oh #how #shakespeare #howd

A C Leuavacant Jun 2014

The Death of Macbeth

Are my eyes just fooling me again
Or is my time Finaly up
Is this a siege on my own head
Or revenge from far and wide
It seems so clear
But yet so far
The panic setting in
I was warned
But not enough
This is the time for fear

And as I stare below me
Crown tilted low upon my head
I could swear the forest's walking
Full of loathing, life and hate

It's pace is quickly speeding up approaching  Dunsinane
Now what to do with my own throne
The battles lost
The battles won

And The branches click and whisper
As I look down In fear
But what choice do I have now
These woods will make the end

#love #poem #poetry #sad #life #heart #end #shakespeare #scotland #macbeth

anonymous crazy person thingy Jun 2014

awake

I don't sleep much
But when I do,
It's per chance of dreaming of you.

This is inspired by Shakespeare

#sleep #insomnia #awake #shakespeare

Ynika Aron Jun 2014

In Response to Shakespeare's Sonnet IXIII

I care not for your “darling buds of May”
Nor the rough winds that howl at their expense
For the sea that is vast as they hair’s fray
I find your mind to be as vastly dense.

As the ocean is brimming with fresh catch;
Bellowing waves to the longing shorelines
Each hermit to shell in a God-made match
Unlike the way thy thoughts seem to align.

But in every shell exists a new creature
No matter what this shell may seem to be
Spontaneity exists bare in nature
As it was so it will remain to be.

As the brilliance of thy words come to a light
I find them burning longer than the night.

The last poem I submitted for ATYP this year. Fun fact: I actually completed the last two quatrains and couplet within about seven minutes during my lunch period, immediately before it was due.

#in #nature #sonnet #i #existential #my #have #head #humor #growth #stuck #shakespeare #grease

svdgrl Jun 2014

Cut clean and dry dreams

One night in the middle of summer,
I was given my favorite dream.
And in it, I was her;
the girl you'd think about when you sing.
I woke up, glazed in melancholy-
in sparkle juice sheen.
And I touched your bracelet to my lip,
the one I stole right before we kissed,
and when our mouths swished
dreamy washing machine.
Cleaned our inner depths of psyche,
anointed with love poison-
unable keep the thoughts of longing, dry,
strong desires are the knife
that cuts the girl from your cloth
the one you think about when you sing,
the one I think you like.
So shredded and clean I bound my lips to you,
I didn't stop until dreams came to life.

#dreams #cleaning #clothes #shakespeare #washing #laundry #washingmachine

Marquis Hardy May 2014

A Sensation of New Life

A Sensation of New Life.
In speaking and growing closer with you day by day
I feel something in the depths of me that had long since gone away
To say that you and I being compatible is far short from the truth
For me being with you is as harmonious as Clark Kent in a booth
For you saying my name has a ring like that of dear Saturn
The vibrations of your vocal chords are among the most vibrant of patterns
Dear one you must realize what may not be so simple and clean
This bond that’s joined between us that is so crystal and pristine
If Having a Coke With You was the only way to spend a lifetime
That would leave me in pure wonderment for the 8th or even 9th time.
If I said how I loved thee and then pretended to count the ways
I would be doing you such an injustice that even Elizabeth Barrett couldn’t Brown away.
If the Sidewalk would End yet I continue for the Red Red Rose
You would see how our love Burns even hotter than the sand which the Shels doze.
I would search for you through the deepest Blue Periods of the vast sea
So much that the creator of the flying Raven would question the love between himself and Lee
If two roads were to diverge in any wood of any color on a Boundless Cliff in any City
I would take them both whilst Shaking My Speare to all who oppose leaving only my pity
Through the endless, impervious love established through the bond that you and I hold
A new life is created that no dagger, poison, or Capulet could fold
A sensation like no other to last through the Best of Times and the Worst of Times
Leaves a Tale of Two Lovers to last forever and always through the words in this rhyme

#literature #shakespeare #classics #comics #silverstein

Sebastian May 2014

Colorado Donna

She didn’t always drink her coffee black.
The milk would spill in, staining the drink
until the perfect hue was achieved
and she’d think what her mother used to think.
“You are always right where you need to be.”
And she’d watch a sugar cube float around
for a few minutes, until the bronze sea
took it away. And her silk dressing gown
trickled past her body just as her new
buyer came to the door. She took one sip
and tried not to let her mascara strew
or even let the mug smear at her lips.
She poured everything down the kitchen sink
and tried to forget what her mother might think.

It's not a perfect Shakespearian sonnet, but I like where it ended up.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
©Sebastian @http://hellopoetry.com/sebastian/

#poetry #life #coffee #hello #sonnet #shakespearian #shakespeare #cream #colorado #donna

Searle May 2014

Shall i compare thee ... to my Ferarri?

My sports car’s bumper is redder than your pale lips,
And it’s Parrelies blacker than your silver flecked hair.
The TSW mags are genuine chrome, not only the lightly rooted tips,
And the smooth, glossy bonnet not wrinkled like your dial from care.

The seats are a plush tan, not a stark, unsightly white like you,
And the V12’s rev is an unmistakeable sound.
The speedometer reads 360, if ever beaten, only by a few,
And when I’m done it resides in splender, and not six foot underground.

The shatterproof windshield is clearer than your misty grey eyes,
And its model number reads 2004, not a dozen and three score more.
The Ferrari I own is the best that money buys,
And it makes me proud to say, “It’s mine!”, not a nuisance for 40years I’ve bore.

Now when Top Car says Ferrari 2005 I’ll need another,
But my love for you is timeless and can be filled by none other!

A play on Shakespeare's sonnet; Shall I compare thee?

#love #fun #sonnet #shakespeare