Guest Poet Fabio Malagisi
As Lovers Do
As she walks by in all her delight.
I bow my head and ponder what might
and a tear I shed, as lovers do
for genuine is love and hers was true.
Now memory recalls, she was the one
The fairest sight under the sun
but lost she was, as all things good
and left am I, with all that could
Two as one and meant to be
we were and are, but not for she
for love's butterfly has left and gone
but returns each night, at a new day's dawn
And to this day cry I still
and when day meets morrow, cry I will
for an angel's angel I once knew
and loved and lost as lovers do.
December, 1997
Fabio Malagisi's Questions:
Is the third stanza clear and coherent with the rest? What does it say to you.
Was the poem successful in provoking emotion?
Correspond with Fabio Malagisi at
Franke69@Erols.Com
with your ideas about this poem.
Beauty Beware
Beauty pierces and leaves to bleed
and causes pain and Beauty's need.
And Beauty basks in solitude's eye
but all that behold it, smile and sigh.
And for Beauty, beholders weep
for alone Beauty will forever sleep.
But all will ignore and pursue in hope
and all will cry and struggle to cope.
So I advise Beauty beware
No matter how lovely, no matter how fair.
December, 1997
Fabio Malagisi's Questions:
I am not sure if I should keep the last line of the first stanza. What are your thoughts?
Do you feel it is OK that behold in line 4 and then beholders in the next line.
Correspond with Fabio Malagisi at
Franke69@Erols.Com
with your ideas about this poem.
The Albany Poetry Workshop