Can somebody please explain this poem?

Question

Your skin glows like the stars in sky.
Blossoms pretty as the daisy in spring.
My heart follows your violin and leaps
Like a dog at the whisper of your name.
The evening floats on a great pigeon’s wing.
I carry into the twilight of thee
And hold next to my pink pale colored-lips.
I’m filled with hope that I may dry your tears.
As my dainty hands fall from my vast chair,
It reminds me of your poem masterpiece.
In the quiet, I listen for the bus.
My heated ears leap to my evening dress.
I wait in the moonlight for your vast eyes
So that we may blink as one, eye to eye.

Answer 1

The explanation is in every line.

Someone is trying to speak poetically to or about someone they admire with shallow lines and weak metaphors. I couldn't have done better myself.

Answer 2

Well I've been a writer for most of my 62 years and this person shouldn't be judged, but they aren't strictly a poet. Certainly they are expressing emotions, but using way too many mixed metaphors that don't flow well together.

They are descriptive but differently so in every line, hence the work is confusing,,,or rather I, at least, was constantly being distracted from the theme, in trying to capture all the images as described.

I'd have to say it should be rewritten before it's submitted to anyone. That might be a moot point if the receiver can understand it all.

Rev. Steven

Answer 3

Skip the first part for now. The second part shows the dream the poet wants to have, and why he wants to have it. It also says that he can't just will himself to dream his healing dream. Maybe the real world can't be brushed aside in sleep. Maybe sleep cannot now give healing rest. Why? I can't say, but I guess that this poet let the real world spill into his dreaming world, and wishes that it were the other way around. The gain from dreams is high. Dreams have great value as a kind of spiritual medicine. Back to the first part: He knows about dreams, and he knows about wishes. The first part asks, "What dream would you wish for?" That isn't a dumb question. When I'm going to sleep, I sometimes wish to dream this dream again, or that one, because I know how those old dreams make me feel, how they soothe me, or whatever. The cost of dreams is low, if you can come up with a sigh, or if you can hear the passing bell. While you can feel, you can dream. --------------- This should give you a leg up on your work. It isn't at all perfect, nor very deep. If I were grading what I just gave you, I'd call it 'glib, unconvincing, and superficial.' But it's just scaffolding for you to scramble up while you build something.

Answer 4

Its a love poem, presumably in the voice of a woman " dainty hands" "evening dress", describing the person she loves, and (I gather) waiting for them to return home "I listen for the bus"

The style is reminiscent of Elizabeth Barret Browning, and is what is called a sonnet. 14 lines, three quatrains. Although the rhyming scheme isn't very good.

Answer 5

OK Let's break it down. Allright there's skin. I see..oh a heart. also I see lips..yes lips. what else is there? oh yeah, hands..I see hands. now there are ears in there too. And eyes are mentioned three times. So, all in all, it must mean. it's gotta be.....

Oh, hell. I got nothing.

Answer 6

The writer is in love and can not wait to see the one that s/he loves. All that s/he does is think about that person and long to be with that person.

Answer 7

Not me, I play football. Ask a soccer player.

Answer 8

it sounds to me that someone wrote it for someone they fancy but the other person dont no it yet??

Answer 9

whoever wrote that is obsessively in love...

unrequited nonetheless