Juliet

[fahye]

Step one: the soothing circle of the gun,
circumference of something-small-times-pi,
pressed into temple's niche. Here ends step one.
(Remember this; you'll need it by and by.)
Step two: a love whose hot and rabid flame,
whose ev'ry arcane kiss, each stifled moan,
will make the poets name (what's in a name?)
you misadventured - pitied - overthrown.
Step three: remove from heat and stir in rage
and calumny. Sobs tear apart your breath.
And then (please see step one) your empty cage;
your star-cross'd fate. His face is calm in death.
No birds, no doves the blast will agitate
(too early to be heard, and found too -

Comments

[tropes.livejournal.com]

Dude.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Thank...you? :D

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Oh wow.

*shivers down spine*

*re-reads*

Wow.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

:)

[rimestock.livejournal.com]

I like.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nextian.livejournal.com]

I feel ... punched in the gut by poetry. That's brilliant. 'specially: And then (please see step one) your empty cage; and the final couplet.

Um. Would you mind if I read it out loud in our poetry club? Only, only it is geeeenius.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Wow, of course I wouldn't mind! That's the biggest compliment anyone's ever paid my attempts at poetry :D

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Oh, Fahye. This is beautiful.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon :)

[demonic9yearold.livejournal.com]

Alright. I don't actually know you in any way, but I find myself quite moved to comment on this, because it is brilliant, and I am very fond, and if you would care to steer me in the direction of more of such poetry, I would be much obliged. Not that I shan't look for it on my own. Because I shall. Because it's just that good. /fangirl

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the compliment! *beams* I don't write a lot of poetry, but I am currently writing more Shakespearean sonnets in the comments of this post (http://fahye.livejournal.com/332323.html), and the poetry tag (http://fahye.livejournal.com/tag/poetry) of my LJ has a few other things I've done. You could also try the memories of my ficblog, mercurial_wit, which I think has some stuff filed under poetry.