Ace!!!!!! Merci and gracias!! Do you have Nina Simone's version? It's totally great, but you'd probably get a chuckle out of her French.

NE ME QUITTE PAS Don't you leave me now, Now we must forget All we can forget All that's left us now; To forget about All the times we fought And the time we lost Trying to figure out How we might forget When attacks of "why?" Helped our hearts kill time, How it thrills me! yet Don’t leave me now... I will offer you Beads and rain-made pearls That come from a world Where it never rains. Roam the land and sea Till I gasp and die, With a golden gleam, And a sheen of jewels Build your realm to be Where love’s everything Where love is the king Where you'll be the queen Don’t you leave me now Don’t you leave me now I will recreate Words and what they state, Things you'll know about, Tales of lovers who Fell away and then Fell in love again As their love stayed true There’s a story too That I must describe Of this king who died Of not meeting you Don’t you leave me now And it’s true that new Flames can burst and blaze From a peak thought done With volcanic days. Seems a burning field Scorched in blasts of heat Could give us more wheat Than April's best yield When the night is nigh Burning overhead, Can't the black and red Twine across the sky? Don’t you leave me now Don’t you leave me now Now I'll cry no more And I'll sigh no more Hide myself somehow: See your dance anew, Hear the song you sing Hear your laughter ring, Watch you smiling too Let me be for you: Shadow of your shadow Shadow of your hand Dog at your command

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Bow'ls. You can write about anything and make it at least halfway interesting. Cuddlytiger's problem is that she's too young to have read very much poetry, so she can't have any clue how many thousands of times these feelings have been expressed in exactly the same way, and why that would be so irritating to anyone reading a poem like this. When she responds to this, it'll probably be to the effect that she doesn't care how many times other people have written the same thing etc etc etc. That kind of talk is bow'ls to the max. Listen carefully, cuddlytiger: THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF POETRY. THE POINT OF POETRY IS TO INTEREST OTHER PEOPLE. I say, go ahead writing about your broken heart or whatever, but start thinking about how to do it originally and interestingly. You might start by clicking Random and reading (without commenting) until your retinas detach.

Maybe you couldn't finish it because Sasha's posts are mostly hyper-dull translations of the dullest poetry ever. Sasha - Don't you read any of these poems before translating them?

I think it's actually because your poemes are hefty satchels of shit, and he wants you to stop posting them.

NOOOOO!!!

OK, i never said your poem was "bad" or that i didn't like it! so why do you have to go all defensive and like paranoid schizo on me? I simply have an attention disorder and i can't keep focused on things for very long. It was in no way a diss towards you or your work, I was just disappointed that i wasn't able to finish reading it. And can i ask why you feel you have to degrade my work? Is it some sort of insecurity or some type of enthrallment you get out of trying to hurt others feelings? I like the way i write, i like chicken soup books, so you can say what you want. Maybe you need to gain some more self confidence because i think its your insecurities that are what's really bothering you...

Her friend Sasha? Just because I know her first name which is on her website...

So write about an experience, something, anything that's not about more teen heartbreak. You are different from every other teenager out there, ann. So write something that sets you apart from them. I've been to your website and the totality of your poems is the sort that (no offense) is not at all unique and could have been written by a teenager 20 years ago.

Poetry is words, not thoughts. You can have the most moving, inspiring thought, idea, or emotion and still have it turn to verse as commonplace as the paper it's written on and as dispensable. Whether poetry is good or not has absolutely nothing to do with whether it "somes from your soul" or not. It's good if the words are strung together in a way that is pleasing both aurally and cognatively. True, good verse and feeling can coincide and they often do, but the fact is that they are independent of each other. If the Aeneid represents Virgil's emotions then he's the king of psychopaths. If you had conquered the self-admitted problem of your "short attention span" and read through the poem of mine you viewed, which is a translation of Antonio Machado's Retrato, you would have seen that it was written in a very detatched, unemotional manner. The poem had nothing to do with the way machado was feeling.

Thank you, and i sure hope so!!! lol.

I agree with you, many people do write regarding this topic. However, I think an 8 is pretty good lol so thank you!

What are you talking about? That's a contraction, and a correct one at that. I enjoyed the fantastical (or is it the hallucinogenic?) element of this, but it just doesn't seem original to me for some reason.

Thank you sweety. I don't know for sure about you or anyone else, but I don't believe "lost love" is just a "teen" experience. Everyone has felt it, and everyone will feel it. You seem to understand that too. Thank you for the suggestions too, I appreciate it!!