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Realization part 2

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andave_ya
, 08-09-2009 at 06:28 PM (1564 Views)
Haha, I didn't know my last entry would create such curiosity.

Here's why I refuse to marry a man who writes me poetry.

A bachelor in our church recently got married. Before the wedding, his fiance added me on facebook and we got to be friends. My church is going to hold a reception for them on Saturday, and the lady who is coordinating it asked me to read out a poem during the ceremony. She and I decided on Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" sonnet when Peter, the groom, emailed her some poetry that he had written for his bride, before they had gotten married. The reception organizer read one to me over the phone, and it was every bit as romantic as a Christian girl could ask for. No one would have expected Peter to write something as sweet and sentimental as that lovely piece.

So after the phone call I got all moonshiny, thinking about romance and poetry and...me. My thoughts wandered the forest roads and led me through all the things I love, all the things God's given me, all the things He's created, all the beauty in the world, the courage, wisdom, honor, humility, love, joy, peace, and happiness and even sadness and wistfulness and melancholy and I realized: I'd consider any guy who takes time away from these truly beautiful things to write ME poetry a bit of an idiot.

I'd rather have a man who wrote poetry about what is truly and lastingly beautiful, not just a little woman making her way. From my point of view as a writer, however inexperienced, I don't see anything in me worth writing poetry about except for what I want to shine forth in my life, which is my walk with God and what He has done for me.

That's not to say I don't want a literary man. One who quotes Yeats or, better yet, Tolkien and Sayers at me would have my heart if he wanted it, so long as he is a Christian first and foremost. (That is my primary requirement for someone I'd let myself fall in love with. I can be flexible on most of the other characteristics .)

Hence the reason for yesterday's offbeat entry.

Oh and, just to let you know, I'm leaving for Patrick Henry next Monday to start life as a college student . God is good.
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  1. Virgil's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Andy
    I'd consider any guy who takes time away from these truly beautiful things to write ME poetry a bit of an idiot.
    Surely there's world enough and time (that's a quote from Andrew Marvell, look it up ) for that gallant young man that wins your heart to write about both.
  2. mtpspur's Avatar
    If you consider that the Song of Solomon is a type of poetry from one lover to another and yes I am aware of the general theme of God's love for His church when your time comes for that special man who will be your life partner and oh so very special one you will appreciate the attention rendered your way if he's a poetical type.
  3. JuniperWoolf's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil
    Surely there's world enough and time (that's a quote from Andrew Marvell, look it up ) for that gallant young man that wins your heart to write about both.

    To His Coy Mistress. I completely LOVE that poem. Sometimes the line that goes something like "then worms will try that long-preserved virginity" pops into my head and turns me off.
  4. Virgil's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
    To His Coy Mistress. I completely LOVE that poem. Sometimes the line that goes something like "then worms will try that long-preserved virginity" pops into my head and turns me off.
    You know I had not remembered that line with the verb "will try." I went and checked it and that is correct, which puts a spin on it that never dawned on me. The worms are actually consumating her. I don't know why I never read it that way.

    The other line that always comes to mind from that poem is " But at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot hurrying near." And I love this too, "The grave's a fine and private place,/But none I think do there embrace."

    Ah heck, here's the entire poem:
    http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm
  5. Steven Hunley's Avatar
    Men can't help but write poetry about women. They can't figure them out, they move with a certain motion best described only as poetic, and they hope they (the women) will be everlasting, and eternal. That's the way they think about them. Basically, they can't help themselves. To a writer of poetry they're poetry fodder in the war of the sexes. Thank God I'm not one. (either woman or poet) Good luck in school. You'll love it.