CPC Celebrates Love in a “Pick-Apart Poetry” Way
Welcome to the February 2014 Edition of Pick-Apart Poetry
as we celebrate the final days of this year’s “Month of Love”
with one of the most well-known love poems ever written.
Quoted again and again throughout history,
Christopher Marlowe wrote this poetic treasure in 1598.
The idea of Pick-Apart Poetry is to select 25 words
from the pieces posted and create poetry of our own.
The words chosen may be used more than once
and tenses and forms may be changed.
Please select your 25 words from Christopher Marlowe’s
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE and create
a new piece using those 25 words.
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
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So your poem may have many more than 25 words.
And while this poem features a love theme,
the poetry we bring back to share isn’t limited
to any specific theme or tenor or style.
We welcome all poetry and all styles.
Our goal is to simply have fun and be creative.
We’re so glad you’ve joined us to celebrate the Month of Love in a Pick-Apart way.
Looking forward to what we all create.
~Barbara K and Cherie~
Greetings and welcome to our February 2014 Pick-Apart get-together as we celebrate Love just one more time before heading into March. We look forward to spending this time together each month and hope you’ll join us and help spread the word that we’re open. :love: :love: :love: and (((HUGS))) and looking forward to our pieces.
Hi Barb……February……how has it disappeared so quickly? Love the beautiful poem that you have found. Mr. Marlowe was a romantic….. :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
THE LOVELORN SHEPHERD’S PLEA
If thee be my love,
pretty lamb of shepherd’s flock,
fragrant flowers shall dance and sing.
Come live with me
in valleys, groves, hills and fields,
pretty lamb of shepherds flock.
-the shepherd.
Fragrant flowers for my love
Gown and slippers made of gold
Thousand Roses delight each day
Posies and Myrtle, pleasures
my love from morning cold
Cherie c2014
Short and sweet…my thinking is pretty sleepy. Have a great evening everyone…..will check writes out in the morning. :love: :love: :love: :love:
SHIPSHAPE SHEEP
A gown made of the finest wool,
wool slippers for the cold.
A belt of wool.
Pretty lamb delights
the shepherd’s flock.
Each May morning,
lamb stud minds come a-live
with love.
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Our Love dances
as the birds of morning
sing melodious delights
of purest gold
embroidered upon
the mountains
and the woods.
(c) barbara kausteklis 2-25-14
BTW Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) was a contemporary of William Shakespeare in England and has sometimes been speculated to have been the actual author of plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare. Lots of info about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe
The featured poem above is so famous, it has its own Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passionate_Shepherd_to_His_Love
MELODIOUS BIRDS SINGS
~
Melodious birds sing
Come live with me my love
I will make thee beds of roses
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle
With coral clasps
The shepherds swains shall dance and sing
By the shallow rivers
~
Written By: Bettie Davis ———————————- © February 25 , 2o14
Well, I must bid adieu for tonight and look forward to sharing tomorrow. I’ll work on a new piece in my dreams. Good night and rest well . . . . see you in the morning over coffee. :love: :love: :love:
Greetings and Good Morning and Coffeetime Cheers on this Wonderful Wednesday morning. Looking forward to spending this day here in a “Pick-Apart Poetry” way. :love: :love: :love:
A wonderful choice for pick-a-part. Though I’m not very good at following directions, I was able to whip something up in a hurry! 😆
fair winter’s passed
and now with sparkling ice in melt
will frosted hearts like a river flow
stirring fragrant posies and roses
tucked snugly still in their beds
sending their scented whisper
past a gentle fall
at morning’s call
shed those cold blankets
don a gold embroidered gown
adorn your flowing amber waves
with crimson clasps and floral crowns
the time’s arrived to sing and dance
enough to make the daylight last
the wood’s alive
wakened at last by dawn’s crisp dew
moss peers atop the mountain rock
to fields and valleys ripe with seed
ample to feed the shepherd’s flock
’tis nature’s way in all – or not
the time’s arrived to plié and prance
to heed the songbirds’ melodious calls
they plead for spring and not too soon
a cue for nascent love to bloom
© Ted Meredith, February 2014