shall I shove an apple to thy face,
which thou bite into, with a savage grace,
shall I wink shooting stars through my eyes,
to pierce thy coarse lips, sewing shut thy lies,
shall I bash thou, with my passion of oddity,
as thou wipe your nose on my heart, thy commodity,
shall I taste bitterness of thy sugar coated love,
as thou interrupt the mating of cloud doves,
shall I lose my tongue to thy expectations,
as extraordinary as black carnations,
shall I freeze thy image in heat of my blood,
as thou break my skull, with thy humor, with a thud,
shall I crunch thy bones within my canines,
so as to prove to thee, my glacial warmth signs,
we shall live perpetually in this strident abode,
our gurgling guts stringed by curvaceous roads,
I strangle thee in thy heavy bald locks,
while thou noose me in a hard death lock,
this love is a love, ye would not understand,
look away, as we finish each other off, as planned
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Ha! 😀 It was fun. I was inspired by dVerse prompt today- to use conceit metaphors and images in the poem. Though I have gone quite bizarre in some of my pieces earlier, today I decided to keep it simple… as I see it.
This is tagged as the post for 29 November for NaBloPoMo. Just one more poem to go and then, I am done with the challenge.
ha. wipe your nose on my heart…smiles…what a love it is you envision…devastating you both in its power…ha…well played…
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Great! A persiflage on the Shakespeare sonnet I dislike most.
Great fun and well done.
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Hmm. This reminds me of a situation I got myself into when I was young and not as self-reliant as I am now! Very well done.
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Love the sonnet of destructive love. The old English worked so well, and though quite brutal, I can see the tongue in cheek.
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wiping the nose on the heart…so good…smiles…thou were doing good…smiles
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thou has done thyself proud with written word upon thy page 😉 I am staying quite clear this week 🙂
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Oh i love it! You have done an exceptional job =)
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Reblogged this on om nashi me.
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Yes some are bizarre, but they work really well. They give your verse personality.
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wiping your nose on my heart…such a powerful image. Excellent work!
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This is really just terrific! A lot of relationships are like this and through the idea of the conceit you have illustrated this back and forth just wonderfully well. Really well done. k.
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Yikes! That is a love I would not wish to understand :)! Nicely written.
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I love your irreverent poke at the Bard, with conceit references, producing a muscular & visceral ride for us; like the line /shall I taste bitterness of thy sugar coated love/; very imaginative use of the prompt, sir.
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I could not help thinking of a suckling pig with an apple stuffed in its mouth as I read this. Great fun to read although perhaps not the kind of love I would want to live through…
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Painful imagery but I enjoyed your use of old English HA!
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Love the olde English you used here – well done! A very cool write and I agree, I like the Bard poking!
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