I could love you.
Wrap a metaphor around your finger.
Punctuate each embrace,
take your gaze in the lines
of my hand and lead it to
my mouthing sweet nothing lips.
Stroke you hair with syllables
And tie it in parentheses
enunciate each advance with a alliteration
and bring you to bed with a preposition.
I’d love to love you.
The rustle of hair as i turn your face,
admire the vignette of a dimple,
the eyes that stray out of the margins
and justify my close reading
of your smile like a simile;
This is translation — semaphore
Of lip, eyelash, stray strand and teeth
Of giddiness of my tonue in your cheeck.
A poem i read from one of my favorite book of poetry collections. the book cover was what attracted me first when i saw it in the shelf stuck between two other big books because of its purplish cover and it’s title: a book of love: a collection of love poems by different Asean writers. When i sifted through the book, i ran across this poem that speaks about love in the most English way possible. it was amusing at first because of the use of the different terms we usually use in writing an english composition, but when you go on reading it and reading it once more, you’d realize that it is really about love and its complexities. the tone of the poem is very light that it reflects the light feeling one has when he/she is in-love. it’s like you’re riding on a cloud floating with the stars in the sky, very similar to the feeling of love and yet the complexity of the terms used adds the thrill to that loving feeling.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I love the poem!!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:59 pm
The poet is very creative. He used different terms inn english composition. I hope to do that same style, too. It is quite unusual.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
The poet is very creative. He used different terms in english composition. I hope to do that same style, too. It is quite unusual.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Extremely amazing and wonderful… The author used english terms in a way that people would be amazed and would loved it…
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:07 am
It is very fun to read. It sounds so simple. I first thought that it was made beacause of the love for writing (as greatly shown by the terms used in writing). But later, I realized that it’s trying to talk about the complexities of love.
It’s a good poem.
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 am
i love the poem. i love to experience the experience of the subject of the poem.even though its good, when i will compare it to poems in a UP folio, still our isko and iska writer manifest a better writing styles. im not biased, i guessed so. im just telling the truth. read a UP folio, e.g. a UPLB one, then you will find out im right.
June 24th, 2007 at 1:18 am
this is yet one of the most romantic poems i’ve ever read. you could feel the deep passion in every line, in every word…this makes me feel like writing about love again.
June 24th, 2007 at 8:24 am
the poem was cute and amazing..,, the poet used another style of writing a poem.., i think the poet was very inspired while doing this poem.
June 24th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I’m not into romance, but this poem actually made me smile!!! Unlike any other romantic poems, this is one of a kind!
June 24th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
The poem is good.It is colored with figures of speech. Well maybe that could be the feelings of people who are in love. I’ll just see and wait.
June 24th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
one poem that makes you want to fall in love all over again.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:05 am
it’s the first time i have read a poem like that.it’s cute.it’s unusual.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Wow! I love it. The poet has a unique and creative mind. I find the poem so romantic. I was imagining how beautiful the one he loves might be.
“The rustle of hair as i turn your face,
the eyes that stray out of the margins
and justify my close reading
of your smile like a simile..”
Gosh! I’m inlove! Char! Haha! Honestly speaking, the poem is so romantic.. it is so inspiring.. I love it!maybe one of these days i’ll write a poem just as good as that. Better watch out ma’am..
-joram
June 27th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Honestly, when i first read this poem i was a lil’ bit confuse but as i read it again i realize it was really amazing…you could really recommend this for those who are in love…
June 29th, 2007 at 5:33 am
i find this poem somewhat funny.(sorry…)
funny ,because i can’t imagine a person in a relationship will think and act in this way..I can’t stop myself to smile.. it’s pretty obvious that the person in the peom
is madly in love.. i now believe that a person who is in love turns corny…
July 1st, 2007 at 6:19 pm
The poem was very much into love and was very descriptive… The poet was really good in English even though he’s a Singaporean. The poet used a lot of figures of speech.
July 8th, 2007 at 12:48 am
this poem is fantastic… the author gives a twist to the poem… i love it!
July 8th, 2007 at 1:24 am
I hope to have a talent in writing like the author…
July 18th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
the author is really amazing!!! i cant resist to read it for several times….
July 21st, 2007 at 2:57 am
the poem is so amazing…this is my first time to read a poem which involves the different terms in english composition..hoping that i could also create a poem as interesting as this.
i never expected that this is how other people would be in love…
July 29th, 2007 at 12:51 am
I definitely love the poem even though I was not able to understand right away some of the words used. Love is the greatest gift that a person can give. It covers all life’s aspects. To be love in return is the greatest give a person can receive. Because it satisfies our emotions and will definitely give us the feeling of happiness like no other things can.
July 29th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
it speaks about love but one will not be able to feel it. it doesn’t depict the deep, true meanig of love (if it really does exist).personally, i did not feel the love that the author wants his readers to feel during and after i read the poem.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
this only proves that love is in the air!
love is everywhere!and now..,I’m thinking of falling in love once again.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:17 am
i must say!!! the poem is really cute.. very nice to read..