had_not_lived: (☞ But every hour is saved)
Neil Perry ([personal profile] had_not_lived) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic2012-02-14 07:41 pm

♕ |[79]| My heart has made its mind up and I'm afraid it's you.

Today seemed like the right occasion for a poem, but it's hard to find the right poem for the occasion. After all, there aren't many things poets write about more often than love. But, I kind of like John Donne, so that's what I ended up with:

I scarce believe my love to be so pure
As I had thought it was,
Because it doth endure
Vicissitude, and season, as the grass;
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore
My love was infinite, if spring make'it more.

But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow
With more, not only be no quintessence,
But mixed of all stuffs paining soul or sense,
And of the sun his active vigour borrow,
Love’s not so pure, and abstract as they use
To say, which have no mistress but their Muse ;
But as all else, being elemented too,
Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do.

And yet no greater, but more eminent,
Love by the spring is grown ;
As in the firmament
Stars by the sun are not enlarged, but shown,
Gentle love deeds, as blossoms on a bough,
From love's awakened root do bud out now.

If, as in water stirr'd more circles be
Produced by one, love such additions take,
Those like so many spheres but one heaven make,
For they are all concentric unto thee ;
And though each spring do add to love new heat,
As princes do in times of action get
New taxes, and remit them not in peace,
No winter shall abate this spring’s increase.



I hope you have a happy Valentine's Day, everyone.


[ooc; sharp-eyed acquaintances in the right place at the right time might happen to see a certain couple of poets having dinner in some restaurant this evening... ;)]
totallyinaband: (mike)

[personal profile] totallyinaband 2012-02-15 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
That's pretty awesome, man.
totallyinaband: (hat and smile)

[personal profile] totallyinaband 2012-02-15 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Still. It's a good one.
totallyinaband: (titly head)

[personal profile] totallyinaband 2012-02-15 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's seriously throwing me off, man. I'm used to there being snow for at least another month and a half at this point.
totallyinaband: (unimpressed)

[personal profile] totallyinaband 2012-02-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's a freakish quantity of sand, is what it is.
totallyinaband: (unimpressed)

[personal profile] totallyinaband 2012-02-15 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the City standard for normal is pretty broad. Remember the harpies?
totallyinaband: (smug smile)

[personal profile] totallyinaband 2012-02-15 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
At least sand is annoying but harmless.

[Stephen will be regretting these words tomorrow...]
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[personal profile] cametolife 2012-02-15 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really beautiful.
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[personal profile] cametolife 2012-02-18 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Are you a professional poet? Like, are you published or anything?
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[personal profile] cametolife 2012-02-18 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Sorry. I just thought-- I'm not really big into poetry, so I... Am totally making a fool out of myself here.
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[personal profile] cametolife 2012-02-18 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, so you were quoting him instead of writing in his style.

[ she'd assumed the latter. whoops. ]
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[personal profile] cametolife 2012-02-18 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Better than me, I'm willing to bet. The teacher I had for English last year would probably agree.
worldofourown: (Dreamy)

Private/Voice

[personal profile] worldofourown 2012-02-15 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's...

That's a splendid poem.

[And totally is. Even in his twisted, obsessive stalker's mind :|]
othersdie: are you exiled in those bottomless nights? (Blank: Superior being)

[private text, evening]

[personal profile] othersdie 2012-02-15 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
How's your date?
othersdie: happy in present good, pale from evil past (Almost a smile)

[private text, evening]

[personal profile] othersdie 2012-02-15 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Good.

[That was the intention, but it's so easy to embarrass Neil and Todd that it's almost unsporting. On this most bitter of holidays, however, Justin doesn't feel particularly bad about it.]

When you come back to the apartment, don't worry about embarrassing yourselves. I don't plan on leaving my room.
othersdie: are you exiled in those bottomless nights? (Demure)

[private text, evening]

[personal profile] othersdie 2012-02-16 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Neil, you would make yourself uncomfortable long before you would make me uncomfortable. But let me rephrase. My plans for the evening don't involve me leaving my room, so you and Todd should enjoy the rest of the day without worrying about making anyone uncomfortable.
othersdie: are you exiled in those bottomless nights? (Smile: But not quite)

[private text, evening]

[personal profile] othersdie 2012-02-16 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, but I've made my plans and I'm not doing anything other than telling you what they are in the event that you'd like to alter your own plans accordingly. That's all.

[Although Neil's inability to accept this offer of privacy is tempting Justin to sneak out before they get home from dinner and do something that will make them blush furiously--putting on some soft music, implementing some mood lighting, perhaps scattering some rose petals around.]
othersdie: are you exiled in those bottomless nights? (Underwhelmed: Deeply)

[private text, evening]

[personal profile] othersdie 2012-02-17 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
It is.

Don't worry. Enjoy the rest of the evening.

[And the rose petals, which will be in place by the time Neil and Todd make their way home.]
othersdie: at times ineffable winds would lend me wings (Smile)

[private text, evening]

[personal profile] othersdie 2012-02-17 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
You too.

[Happy Valentine's Day?]