Romeo and Juliet berate Shakespeare for making them star-crossed lovers

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Wes Utica
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since 2000-08-12

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California

0 posted 2001-08-27 04:23 PM

ROMEO SPEAKS ...
A curse on thee, Will Shakespeare, this play
Hath given me true love and taken it away.
Wouldst thou have stilled a lark at break
Of  day arising, to sing songs at Heaven's gate,
Or cruelly masked a mother with an antic face
To leave her offspring in confus'd daze?
Then why cast us with misadventured strife
as star-crossed lovers who take their lives.
Thy pen didst shade us lovers for the ages
Then left us bloody strewn across thy pages.
My only love sprang from my only hate.
How can an enemy,  to an enemy relate?
Yet, when I trespassed in Capulet's Hall
Twas as a kindly gentleman bereft of gall;
Then saw I sweet Juliet with a knight.
Ah, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
Tis then thy prankish  plotting did approve
the meeting, and at first sighting we did love.
Thus we spake our love with words and tears
outlasting our demise, four hundred years.
Thy life, thy glory outshine our deaths,
Thy celebrity springs from our last breaths.
Why not dip thy pen in Hamlet's indecision
Ere its sharpened nib made its incision.
And cut down sweet Juliet by my side,
And married Death to my belove'd bride.
Couldst thee not hone thy art and prove
Thy skill be suitable to our love?

NOW JULIET ...
Cruel playwright, thou dost mock love
And I,  nor any consoling friar can absolve
Thee for burying my note within our crypt,
Apprising poor Romeo that I but slept.
And death, therein was falsely staged
To thwart the wedding my father arranged.
Look closely in thy audience's eye.
What note, they ask, did they not espy?
Discomfiture abound thee whilst they hear
The words I writ to Romeo: "O Romeo dear,
Be not distraught though no warmth nor breath
Doth testify I live, for I have borrowed death
To outwit Capulet's  imprudent scheme
And lie for forty hours within a senseless dream.
Yet thy sight upon this page restores my faith
The Friar's vial outwits that bumpkin death.
Then patience still thee till I am more whole
And use these words to look into my soul.
And as thy lips form my words they brush
my lips from which these thoughts do gush
As from a spring of never ending flow
That  wash me ever gently from my tomb.
And place me softly in thy fond embrace,
Into the loving hands that hold this page.
Patience, love, soon thee and I shall dwell
Where  love is true and true love endeth well."
Thus this ending Juliet and Romeo deserved,
Had truth, and love, and comity been served.

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2001-08-27 04:43 PM

What would be the purpose of such a happy ending? Shake certainly wasn't (if in fact he wrote any of his work) a Harlequin romance novelist. Where would the conflict be? Where would the pathos lie that would evoke the human emotion?
This is an extremely cleverly written ironic and even sarcastic parallel of one of the great Bard's most famous plays.
I thoroughly enjoyed the read from beginning to end....you have a tremendous imagination!!

shadow974
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 636
Michigan

2 posted 2001-08-27 05:26 PM

Excellent!! Excellent!! This is quite a poem.

Throw your heart out in front of you
And run out to catch it.
ARAB PROVERB

Martie

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3 posted 2001-08-27 05:57 PM

Wes--What a great write! Bravo!!!

Seymour Tabin
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4 posted 2001-08-27 06:11 PM

Wes Utica,
You did well a beautiful write. Enjoyed

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

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5 posted 2001-08-27 06:18 PM

What a very clever and creative inspire...
this shows such bright imagination
and also showcases your talented pen, superb employ of language, vocab and verbiage.
A unique twist on a classic tale...
masterfully carried out from conception to completion.
Well done poet sir...so nice to read you again.
jm

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

6 posted 2001-08-27 08:37 PM

I love this. . . what an excellent idea. . . truly if our creations could speak back to us. . . what would they say???

Well done. . .

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catalinamoon

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since 2000-06-03

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The Shores of Alone

7 posted 2001-08-27 08:42 PM

This is great! The creativity of the idea, and the writing itself.
Sandra

ramrog
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since 2001-08-22

Posts 50

8 posted 2001-08-28 01:43 AM

Clever and unique. Liked it a lot.

"If you choose not to decide,
You still have made a choice."
Neil Pert

rwood
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since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

9 posted 2001-08-28 06:05 AM

quote:
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,

It seems he always gave a preparatory note to what would befall his characters. Without darkness, one would never know true light. But he was a maniac for it. Your verse is brilliant. Very pondering sequal of ghostly
rebut. Fantastic work!

Sincerely,
Regina

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

10 posted 2001-08-28 08:44 AM

Excellent write! And you have a sense of humor, too!

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