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Earl Robertson
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since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

0 posted 2008-02-02 10:54 PM

Heres the deal: I couldn't sleep one night, kept drifting in and out of that 'grey' zone right between real sleep and alertness. Somtime like 1 AM I was struck by inspiration. Ran to my computer and wrote the first two stanzas of this poem! I went back to bed, fell asleep and didn't have the foggiest clue what those stanzas meant in the morning. I talked to a few of my friends and got one rather frightening interpetation, based on which I wrote the last stanza. So heres the deal: what do you guys think this means? (espeicialy the first to stanzas!)

I went to the gypsy to get my fortune told
She said I was a coward, yet compassionate and bold
But these things I already knew
So I asked her for the future true

She said that she could tell the past
That it’s lessons would forever last
But it would cost me one small thing:
My heart and a diamond ring

But fortunes I can do without
Because I know beyond a doubt
That what I trust and from receive;
If I trusted the gypsy would now and always leave

RevengeIsMine
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since 2006-07-08

Posts 820
Australia

1 posted 2008-02-02 11:20 PM

Ok.. It's a little confusing.. but i think the gypsy is telling you of love.. that you always seem to run away from it.. you never really make a commintment because your afraid of getting hurt.. maybe you've been hurt in the past.. and the reference in the end tells me why your so afraid of love.. because it always leaves... this is why you don't trust what the gypsy is saying because u know deep down she'll only run away as well.. like everbody else you have cared for..

So i'm sorry if this isn't what you were looking for but i'm not good at explaining things.. but yea thats what i got from the poem

Earl Robertson
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since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

2 posted 2008-02-02 11:26 PM

Hmmm makes sense. I made a mistake though (now fixed). There are 3 stanzas! I only wrote two in my sleep. The third is more my take on a friends interpretation. Thanks. A few more of these and I'll start getting a real good look at myself!

"Be Strong and Always Remember what made you you." Earl

"Ooo!!! Ooo!! I know! I know! um...he he" Earl
(Yes I am crazy)

Ri
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since 2008-02-01

Posts 67
Blackburn, England

3 posted 2008-02-03 06:22 AM

I interpret it to mean that you can look into, and learn from the past, but if you delve into it to far you can end up getting hurt by memories you tried to lock away.

I love the concept though

-Ri-

RenaissanceRomanceRunsRed
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since 2007-06-11

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4 posted 2008-02-03 09:32 AM

I went to the gypsy to get my fortune told

Alright, obviously here you're unsure of something- enough to go to a gypsy intentionally- so there is something you're looking for.

She said I was a coward, yet compassionate and bold

she's now told you what you are- a coward, so maybe subconcicenly you don't think you're self brave- but yet you do think of others and such.

But these things I already knew
So I asked her for the future true

so you knew these things- again complying to the things i've said above- that you already knew these things. and we've now pinpointed what it was you're looking for- the future (and truly what a silly thing to do- haven't you ever heard the stories?)

She said that she could tell the past

okay- so she's not telling you the future- she's giving you your past which (you should remember) is not what you wanted to hear

That it’s lessons would forever last

I think that here subconciensely you are trying to tell your self that you should remember past lessons (yes this has happened to me before where i worte something like this that was trying to tell me something, but i just couldn't see it)

But it would cost me one small thing:
My heart and a diamond ring

Humm, i think you're hitting it on the head here- she wants something for her services, and prehaps, this is something you would rather not give.

But fortunes I can do without

i think this is your refusal line- not giving her either heart nor ring

Because I know beyond a doubt
That what I trust and from receive;
If I trusted the gypsy would now and always leave

alirhgt- here you are realizing that if you trusted in her and her soothsayings that you would soon be lost and never gain what it is that truly matters.

-Kate

and in the daylight i miss the nightmare- but deathly fear it in the dark of night

surf_painter
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since 2007-04-10

Posts 434
Canada

5 posted 2008-02-03 10:45 AM

So the two first stanzas went together I must say and what I got out of what it would cost is a love and a marriage but that is just my opinion. Also the last stanza doesn't really seem to fit especially the last line it just seems oddly written

Falling rain

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since 2008-01-31

Posts 2178
Small town, Illinois

6 posted 2008-02-03 11:09 AM

the first stanza i think means that your personality is compationate and bold but your a coward when it comes to the future like your afraid of what is to come. like a coward... but thats what i think. the rest of it can mean your afraid of love. or being hurt by love.

Earl Robertson
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since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

7 posted 2008-02-03 07:50 PM

Hmmmm...
Thanks guys. You've given me alot to think about. (Kate I espiecialy...need to think about...what you said.) I realy apprieciate all the comments!

"Be Strong and Always Remember what made you you." Earl

"Ooo!!! Ooo!! I know! I know! um...he he" Earl
(Yes I am crazy)

XxForever.BrokenxX
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since 2008-01-20

Posts 891
Neverland

8 posted 2008-02-03 09:40 PM

Earl...you're cool. I like the way you took something like a gypsie and turn it into something like that. Someone could take that very seriously and see a real life situation come out of it..or they could just see a story of something as simple as a carnival with booths full of people trying to get money. I'm not sure what I think of it, but I don't just see a carnival. I also get random poem starters when i'm trying to sleep.. it's realy interesting what you'r brain can come up with when you aren't paying attention. This is a wonderful poem, and thanx again for helping me with figuring out what my poem was about. Sorry I can't be of more help to u.

FoReVeR.BrOkEn

RenaissanceRomanceRunsRed
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since 2007-06-11

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9 posted 2008-02-05 09:43 PM

is that a good thinking or a bad thinking . . . . . . . ?

-Kate

and in the daylight i miss the nightmare- but deathly fear it in the dark of night

Earl Robertson
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since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

10 posted 2008-02-05 10:05 PM

Well...thats an exelent question Kate. I do like thinking...you know in general it's a good thing. But whether it's 'good' thinking or 'bad' thinking is acctualy the main problem being raised!

"Be Strong and Always Remember what made you you." Earl

"Ooo!!! Ooo!! I know! I know! um...he he" Earl
(Yes I am crazy)

RenaissanceRomanceRunsRed
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since 2007-06-11

Posts 1062
In Love <3

11 posted 2008-02-06 05:45 PM

Well i hope you find your answer, so many people throw away the answers when they mistake it for a reason.

-Kate

and in the daylight i miss the nightmare- but deathly fear it in the dark of night

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