Poems of the Night

[cinaed]

Okay, snippets from various poems, but I've included them in my various McKay/Zelenka stories. *beams* And they're prettiful.

Tell me
That your eyes do not search for me
In a crowd
And I shall say to you
That my heart does not miss a beat
When I see you

~"Let's Be Discreet" by Amanda Townsend
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I'm sorry I'm falling all over myself in these
sonnets, I'd rather be falling all over you.
Do you know? Am I telling you? The view
from up here is beautiful but confusing.

~"The Cut Glass Sonnet" by Everette Maddox
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Yes, I have a thousand tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
Though I strive to use the one,
It will make no melody at my will,
But is dead in my mouth.

~"Yes, I have a thousand tongues" by Stephen Crane
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Somewhere, Dover Beach
maybe, something fragile
and afraid is trying to last
forever.

~"Of Fashion" by Everette Maddox
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

~"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
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I understood the rest too well,
And all their thoughts have come to be
Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell
Of a sunny shallow sea.

But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.

~"Understanding" by Sara Teasdale
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The moon comes around, though. I want to
drag it down and hand it to you and say, "Here,
this is lovely and useless and it cost me
a lot of trouble. You can tie it up on
the river behind your house, and go down to
look at it whenever you like."

~"Moon Fragment" by Everette Maddox
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