February 14, 2008
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ElectricPoetry Post: Love Poems
It's Valentine's Day 2008. I wrote a new poem. Below today's poem are some others bearing the theme of Love. I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day. Love is in the air.......
Another Depressing Valentine's Poem
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2008, 4:25pm pstWell here I am alone another Valentine's Day.
I'm sort of glad it's overcast, and clouds are in the way.
For years I hoped and waited for the girl in dreams to come.
I polished up my life and blew my horn and thumped my drum.
She never came around, I don't know why nor understand.
She must exist I tell myself as I extend my hand.Yes, here it is again, a meal for one, a day for tears.
Another poor sad situation like it's been for years and years.
Are you still out there muse, and are you young and pure
Or are you old like me, and still alone without a cure?
Will we ever meet as fate allows in dreams and books?
Or do we fail to see each other with our glancing looks.Another day for hearts and flowers don't you know
Another cause for celebration of the love we grow
But since I never knew you and you failed to come to me
I really can't explore a love with just sincerity
And so I sit here, pen in hand, attempt a meager smile
I'll say I'm still awaiting you as I have been all this while.Well here I am alone another Valentine's Day
I'm sort of glad it's overcast, and clouds are in the way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now, they are not what they seem
And if you love me as I love, then this must be a dream.
I'll close my eyes, and brave the rain, and blow a gentle kiss
And crawl into my bed alone, as ever come to this."Scintillation"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
1970 (16 years old)
As I stopped in thought,
A picture brought
Itself into my view.A lithe girl neared,
Her face appeared
With a warm and wonderful hue.Mellow with the sun and warmth of vitality
Interspersed with affectionate charm.
Captive with a radiant beauty
And mild as Sol is warm.
Love is wonder is Mical.Beauty surrounds her countenance,
Under an azure sky.
Crisp in her wonderful lifelong dance
Keeping the workings of joy.A beautiful face,
With charismatic grace,
I see a lovely vision.A lustrous love,
That shines from above,
A life that escapes evasion.NOTE: The first letters of the third and fourth verses spell the recipient's
name. This is a partial "anacrostic poem"."Sonnet Two"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
1970 (16 years old)
Tis an awesome pity that you would shun
This love of mine which I direct
Upon you - should my will be done,
My futile thoughts could then dissect.
As Pygmalion modeled his statue great,
I would, could I have you to pose.
I've tried to leave it up to fate,
And gain your love, but I've gained woes.
You stand so tall in your unknown world,
While I still watch with hopes to pry
Apart your cell into which I've hurled
My passion deep, and words I cry.
Till Earth shall end, and void be long.
The feeling's there, "My love is wrong."
"Untitled V"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
1972
If the motionless arms of unrequited respect
Could grasp the meaning of what I wanted to say,
I could express eloquently every syllable
And build a rook of words pointing
Perpendicularly to her heaven,
But alas, and as the poets profess, alas,
'Tis not so - 'Tis a handsome lie:
She isn't dwelling in a heaven,
Save what clouds roll in my brain.
She's here, and real, and I cannot
Build a rook which points skyward.
It's too much trouble.
I can only travel in an unreal world,
To where she'll sit waiting - but it won't
Be for me.....
She might be easy for me to grasp,
Like my arms of unrequited respect,
But then I'll know for sure
That my rook would never point skyward
Again.
"Untitled"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
April 20, 1980
A Cool assuring wind
streams thru my window
The hours stack in endless rows
of time
Your presence only served to
help my hinder
By reassuring only you can
help me rhymeA thought, it shudders at
the awful lacking
I feel when I feel
I cannot feel you
The days continue in their
game of stacking
And now as if I'm rhyming
fast with blue.You're the vision I'll keep tonight
But you'll be with meas it should be
I still
love you
Goddammit
and
I look at girls lke Karen and
Robin and I feel I can love them
and I might even try
but
Catherine
I never tried with you
there's something specialthat I'll never feel
but Catherine, please believe me
A poem
has to
rhyme
and
I
rhyme
with
you -"The Quest"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
(For the Queen, Regina)
February 26, 2000
I shall set upon my steed, well fed and sturdy
As we venture forth through hill and dale
Ready to clash with dragons, and battle with gnomes
Who would interfere with the quest
For the Cup of Life,
And the bower of the faire maiden Regina,
The Queen of her world,
And the recipient of the Minstel's songs
I shall peruse the landscape, and fashion a song of yearning
I shall gallop at lightning speed, and greet before the
Long round rook, the object of love's desire.
I am on my way to wonderful
I am rising on Phoenix wings to the castle walls
I will see the winter tree bud, bloom, and bear fruit
The happy end needs a beginning,
And I begin here, with your thoughts in my heart
As I depart this world for yours
For your world is a blessing to me, no matter
What is or isn't said
Your mind is beautiful receptacle for love
Your heart is pure and white and filled with love
Your cup, your grail, your very being is full with love
I am travelling on a Quest to my Queen
To feel this love which has only manifested itself in words and thoughts
To feel this love which caused the oceans to stop rolling
And the stars to fall out of the sky.
I shall hereby begin my journey
The Minstrel shall sing of Love
And my Queen shall sing in harmony
And the song shall be sweet and ceremonious
And we shall soon lie beside the Love of the Heavens
And my Journey will be at an end.
Comments (59)
that is a sad poem but we are all alone don't you know that? Sometimes someone gets you through g though m and then maybe someone else r though w but in the end we're with ourselves A-Z silly.
I'm not sure if my ability to comment is made possible by reading you through my subscription page (as you suggested a while back), or if it's that you did something to your site.
"Another Depressing Valentine's Poem" resonated. At least with my younger days. Not today, thank goodness.
"Scintillation" very clever. I've never done anacrostic poetry. I have to put it on my "bucket list," don't I?
"Sonnet Two" is like one I wrote when I was 19. (You were precocious, weren't you?) Anyway, mine had a terrible effect. I got a polite but blunt letter telling me that the object of my affection owned a heart that was not free to be won, and so my own got broken. I'd have been better off remaining silent, and happily fantasizing about her.
Sadly, both untitled poems reminded me of "Sonnet Two" and the deleterious effect of writing my own desperate plea for companionship.
"The Quest" Oh how wonderful! To end on a note of optimism. That's my modus operandi, optimism. I have often braced myself with the consoling thought that no matter how many or how severe the rejections, the quest is always ongoing, that Love is always around the corner, if not in my life at the moment. Happily, Love IS in my life, but 'twas not always thus.
I like the way you write, Michael. Your poetry always seems to ring true to me in some way. Very good stuff.
And not to be totally rude on this Valentine's Day, but it's time to send you off Speed Dating, I should say.
@twoberry - Dear Bob, Welcome back. I am thrilled and pleased to see you here again. I wondered about not including a "Behind the Poetry" explanation that I don't like to be depressing on my blog because today's poem ISN'T optimistic, but thank you for pointing out such optimism as there is in the group. Regina was my second "internet romance" detailed on my Lovesearch website and I created a whole website just for her back in 2000. I have really missed your comments. If Hillary and Barack don't stop acting like kids on the elementary school playground I might just have to vote for McCain.
@roddymccorley - Dear Roddy, I've always said that if I can touch just one person with my words, then my purpose on Earth is fulfilled and I've "done my job" as a writer and poet. I knew very young that I had a "gift for words" (and for colliding them together in long rambling sentences the length of paragraphs.) I figured if I were able to describe for people what they might be feeling, in a nakedly empathic way, then I might be able to patch into some kind of global communication. Of course until the internet came along, the only one who read them was me.
Nice writes, thx for sharing them.
All too real for us singles out here...stoopid happy day.
I hope all of your days do have some happy in them.
Dear Mike,
... I hear the words of your first poem and I think to myself she's out there somewhere.. And in ways perhaps failing to grasp the significance of those glancing looks. Good luck to you in finding her - when you least expect it. I'm so very impressed with the poetry of your younger years. It's so impressive. I was surprised but then realized I shouldn't have been. I've been over to your site & read a few poems there. I didn't see away to let you know. A belated Happy Valentine's Day to you... Coupled off or not - it's a day for caring about friends as well.
Hmmm... for unknown reasons are started to say Michael
Peace,
Jane
I think the reason I stopped coming over is that you explemplified all I could have been had I not thrown away all the opportunities that would have embellished me and instead embraced those that nearly ruined me.
I love your valentine poem. One of my lingering heartbreaking regrets is that the person who gave me the most love and forgave me always, did not get the same things from me. Having died when he and I were still young, it was not until years later it landed on me like a ton of bricks. They say you must forgive yourself. Yeah, right. I do momentarily until I look at his picture or remember something from the past.
I do love you, Michael. Just as I did Terry. It would behoove me to be grateful you are still with us!
Dear Michael, "Untitled" is heartbreaking. It is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful poems I've ever read. I absolutely adore the way your words are put together. Your Valentine's day poem made me sad for you. I hope you are feeling better today.
RYC: I am having a very difficult time with being sober for two weeks! I can't imagine not having a drink for 5 years. I'm happy, though, that you're drinking again. I don't really like men who don't drink.
These are all fabulously crafted and you can really feel the passion in the words....... I too have yet to find my true love......
The clarity and dignity you possess is notable , and is evident in your poetry.It is also unusual in writing of lost or frustrated love.It made me think had I read it when it was current I would know you felt the loss as keenly as any other man might but that your ability to keep on keeping on would carry you past that hurt,speaking of which reading about your accident and dental surgery made me wince a few times and helps explain some of those inner resources you have used to deal with the fickle and oft times mischievous and dare I say even mean pranks that cupid plays on sturdy hearts.I am sorry I have been scarce... life keeps intruding on my blogging....RYC Thanks for that:)
I think single as well as taken can relate to the Valentine poem...not eveyone is happily in couple hood.
ryc: Thanks for the advice, and I like how you related your story back to mine. That must have been a strange experience, as I would not have known what to do if I'd been punched on the head by a bitter driver. I guess I would have probably scuttled away as you had.
And I admire your poetic thoughts on Valentine's Day, though your first poem, "Another Depressing Valentine's Day Poem", reminds me a lot of my life more so than the others.
Have a nice post-Valentine's Day-Day!
You have a return comment pet-peeve? Okay, I get that. But I had a lot of comments to answer... so I couldn't read everyone's sites. Actually, I got 148 at the end of that day, same as yours. Odd, huh?
Anyhow, here's something to consider about return comments. My writing isn't for everyone. On the flip side, your writing isn't for everyone. When a commenter leaves a comment, it's easier for them to leave a good comment when they can connect with your writing. If I don't leave a comment, it's because I either don't know what to say or what to add to the post. One thing I can't really read is poetry. When someone posts a poem, I'm not sure what to say. I don't want to say their poem was terrible or boring, but, on the other hand, I don't want to just go "Hey! Great poem!" so usually, I'll just leave a return comment.
Your Valentine's poem is realy, really depressing, Mike. You must disgard that moose and look for a new one
Okay, maybe we should get a new plan. Nice guys and girls(personal experience) are not courted or counted as much as bad guys and naughty girls. It is not a theory. It is true.
I love your profile picture. Maybe you should put an advertisement on your head and leave a phone number or email address...could work.
Several really powerful lines in your poems.
Hi, Mike.
Thanks for stopping by my site a couple of days ago. I always enjoy visitors. Feel free to return any time you would like.
Have a great weekend,
Christy
the dreamer in you shines out through your poetry! may the right girl come across it and fall in love first with it and then with you!
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