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[RedRose]

Today I read a romantic poem, due to my lack of English knowledge and the comprehension of poems, I am not sure if I really get it. I can tell there are many grammartic mistakes in this poem, and I guess it's a poem related sex or love-making or whatever. but I worry, maybe that's because I always have perverted thoughts in my mind, so I think of everything as pornography. However, at this forum, not everyone is pervert, some members are very decent and noble and intelligent. so I ask you people a favor: Would you please interpret this poem for me? poetic language is generally recondite. So make sure your interpretation is easy to understand. Thanks.

Maybe I can read this thread after I come back from a conference. I am expecting that each of you guys will a great job! Good luck!

Here is the poem
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As you enter you say I cannot touch.
Naked with your hands and mouth all over me.
Wanting to touch you has never been this much.
I am in ectasy from what I feel and see.
Our passion consumes us making it hard to restrain.
My head is filling with fantasies for us to do.
I am overwhelmed and my resistance is pain.
Our lips now meet as I expose you too.
I worship your body and cannot get enough.
We come closer with a connection thats true.
I realize why you did this even though it was tough.
You made me want you more than I have ever wanted you.

[beancurdturtle]

It's a clumsy poem. Poorly written in fact. The vocabulary is clumsy. The grammar is clumsy.

I think some lonely teenager wrote it. I can't find a reference for the author.

It's like selected lyrics from various love songs, all with some barely disguised reference to making love.

I'm not trying to be a buzzkill - that's just my interpretation.
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[ad-miral]

this poem fits to redrose very much, I mean plain language, plain stylistic devices, but excessive meaning.
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[Anuradha Chepur]

The post is titled 'romantic poetry' and I was thrilled and expected to read something related to Urdu ghazals - the ultimate in that genre.
What a disappointment.

[ad-miral]

Well this poem is divided in three strophes with 4 verses each. So we can see that's a typical romantic poem because romnantic poems mostly have such a structure. The rhyming scheme is very simple too with a continuous cross rhyme. (a-b-a-b) Crossrhymes are generally used to create tension.

This simplicity is reflected in the meaning of the poem, too.... Gosh, I think this poem is too simple that it doesn't deserve to be interpreted. However all the strophes is telling about the same, the first strophe says that the author (the lyrical 1st person) is in ecstacy, to despict the intense of the ecstacy, the author uses two Pleonasm (l.2 and l.4: "hands and mouth", "feel and see"). The use of Pleonasm in the 2nd and 3rd verse enhances the continous tension created by the cross rhyme. The second strophe says that they kiss and fuc.k with each other. The word "passion" has been personificated by the verb "consume", this leadass us to a guess: "matter over mind" and signalises us that se.x will be happening. The third strophe says that the author wants the lyrical 2nd person very much. The alliteration "...even though it was tough..." should let the reader think about this verse but I don't know for which reason.

Last year I wrote this poem for my beautiful fiancee:

[garfield_jesse]

I don't like poem . I'm not patient to read entire a poem. I don't know why. I can't understand what a poem means? I prefer to read a novel than a poem
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