Ah Virgil I did not that you were that way inclindOriginally Posted by Virgil
Aren't there any love poems to seduce men?
Ah Virgil I did not that you were that way inclindAren't there any love poems to seduce men?
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
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Yeah, but they're all pornographic.Aren't there any love poems to seduce men?
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Love poem? c'mon....they are just laughing at you, they'll get to tell the next bf what a tool you were. So avoid it, be a meanie!
pop a double biceps shot and tell them that you're not into mushy stuff, that'll have them writing love poems for YOU.
ya boi!
Weeping Willy Yeats:
HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
or..............
Austin Clarke:
When night stirred at sea,
An the fire brought a crowd in
They say that her beauty
Was music in mouth
And few in the candlelight
Thought her too proud,
For the house of the planter
Is known by the trees.
Men that had seen her
Drank deep and were silent,
The women were speaking
Wherever she went --
As a bell that is rung
Or a wonder told shyly
And O she was the Sunday
In every week.
women always love men who know how to make poems. so, whoever can make love poems, you are very attractive. congratulations!
So its not really a poem, but I have a cute story.
I was talking with a love of mine a while ago and I told her there is nothing in the world I would rather see than her smile.
And she said "even the seven wonders?"
And on the spot I said, "You are the seven wonders of my world; your voice, your laugh, your eyes, your smile, your kiss, your touch, and your love"
To which she gave me a very teary kiss.
Corny I know.
Everyone knows what's in room 101.
Everything becomes irrelevant, when the sky tears open.
"Hey Kevin." "What?" "Theres a ditch there." "Sh*t!"
For a great modern recreation of one, try this one by the superb George Elliot Clarke:
The River Pilgrim: A Letter
At eighteen, I thought the Sixhibaoux wept.
Five years younger, you were lush, beautiful
Mystery; your limbs — scrolls of deep water.
Before your home, lost in roses, I swooned,
Drunken in the village of Whylah Falls,
And brought you apple blossoms you refused,
Wanting Hand Snow woodsmoke blues and dried smelts,
Wanting some milljerk's dumb, unlettered love.
That May, freight chimed zylophone tracks that rang
To Montréal. I scribbled postcard odes,
Painted le fleuve Saint-Laurent come la Seine —
Sad watercolours for Negro exiles
In France, and drempt Paris white with lepers,
Soft cripples who finger pawns under elms,
Drink blurry into young debaucery,
Their glasses clear with Cointreau, rain and tears.
continued here
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpo...arke/poem1.htm
Um, poems are not the way to melt a girls heart. If you can't manage to touch her heart by simply being in her presence, then no poem will ever, ever, ever "melt" ( terrible term ) her heart. They're corny. Songs are different, songs are a lot better. But honestly, if you insist on dropping the poem on her, at least wait till you know her for a very, very long time because there is nothing less romantic than receiving a poem from someone who barely knows you because you KNOW it's complete and utter Iamgoingtoswearhere, bull****. So it ruins it.
But yeah, stay away from the poems. If you do give her one though, make sure it's your own. And that it's good. Getting a badly written poem isn't romantic. It's really quite lame.
You would think, though the Canadian author Thomas King actually took up writing to impress the woman who one day ended up his wife. So you never know. Of course, getting a bad written poem is cheesy, and of course, the exchange of poetry like this is rather cheesy in general. But it sure is fun!
Obviously if you attempt to melt a woman's heart with a poem you might do best to avoid the woman who has little appreciation for poetry ("Songs are different, songs are a lot better.") although I would agree that a poem on its own isn't likely to be the most successful method of seduction. Of course there is much to be said for the notion that "it's the thought that counts" and there are certainly more than a few women (and men) who would not be touched by the effort of a lover who actually took the time and made the effort to create a work of art to sing the praises of his (or her) love... no matter how bad the actual end product may be. Any lover who could not appreciate the sentiment or would dismiss such effort (corny though it may be) is almost certainly not worth the trouble in the long run.
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Obviously if you attempt to melt a woman's heart with a poem you might do best to avoid the woman who has little appreciation for poetry ("Songs are different, songs are a lot better."
Hey - not very nice. "avoid the woman who has little appreciation for poetry" - terrible advice. Just because someone doesn't exactly get a "kick" out of hearing someone recite someone else's poetry to them, doesn't mean they don't appreciate it. It's pretty assuming of you to think that.
I appreciate poetry a lot. It is a great love of mine. But I find it somewhat ruins it to have it recited to me by someone who wants to express some kind of "romantic" feeling. It needs to be a bit more personal than that.
Also as I mentioned in my previous post, creating your own poetry is a lot different than reciting someone else's.
You can greatly appreciate poetry but not so much enjoy it being recited it to you...
if you don't think that then perhaps you're the one who should be avoided, no?
He wasn't implying you in general, he was just saying, don't give poetry to someone who doesn't like it. From what I see today - poetry, in terms of love poetry (virtually all of which is mediocre, I would add) is about marriage, or dedicated to a spouse, and not a "lover". It seems the romance of teenage years and early adulthood has been usurped by a lust-culture, or perhaps a pop-culture, that doesn't have room for much emotion. The seduction poem then, is somewhat out of favor outside of niched groups, as poetry is out of favor outside of niched groups.
I think, in other places of the world, this is not the case. Latin America, for instance, I think has a stronger love-poem tradition, and capacity - in terms of culture, there seems to be there a more openess to strong emotion and passion, whereas in The States, not so much. The seduction poem in general, as a genre, I think though, has no more place in poetry, in general. The love poem, perhaps yes, and the desire poem, perhaps yes, but the actual poem trying to convince a woman to sleep with a man? probably not.
One needs the Virgin obsession that plagued the middle-ages for that to exist. If society doesn't put an emphasis on a woman's virginity, than I think the seduction poem doesn't work. I think our culture has moved, and is continuing to move away from there. The small amount of blood that meant so much in the middle ages, right now doesn't seem to mean as much. Sex in itself seems more geared towards pleasure (ideally of both practitioners) rather than a "consummation of one's love".
A lot of people, INCLUDING teenagers seek romance and some way to express that to the person they love. But poetry is about taste. Not everyone enjoys it being recited to them, for some it can ruin it, if recited by the wrong person. We can't make generalisations regarding poetry and romance. People just prefer different things.
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