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Do you ever feel like me?

If I could compare you

If I could compare you

I would compare you to a summer breeze

That starts at my head and ends around my knees

You’d wrap me up in your summer warmth

Keeping me in comfort just as I been joyfully born

If I could compare you

I would compare you as winters go

You would cover my world in virgin white snow

To see such wonder would never be boring

To sleep the night only to see you again I the morning

If I could compare you

I would compare you to an autumn leaf

Its soft golden colour is beautiful and far beyond belief

I’d this home carefully and place it in a book

And when I feel so lonely, I’d open you up just to take a look

If I could compare you

I would compare you to the fresh smell of spring

You would capture my soul and my heart unlike any thing

I would help you watch the flowers grow

Then take the feeling with me all the way home

Peter Houghton 04/05/08

Update:

Natasha, your thoughts may be in your experience right, but in this, the only inspiration came from my thoughts only, to pinch someone's else's work would not do me any justice

Update 2:

Vergildmd, with respect this is my own work, I would never take someone's else's work and claim it for my own, but thanks for taking the time to answer

Update 3:

Horse racing, it is what ever it makes your heart feel

Update 4:

Harly Q, It is great that you equate my work with such a great man, but if I were to change the words as you suggested it would no longer be mine, I have never read shake spear or any other poet, that is a way to be misleaded into using peoples others words, I keep it real, raw and off the cuff. But thanks for your write up

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Ah you've done it again! This poem is as funny as your trees one! I especially loved the "I would compare you to a summer breeze, that starts at my head and ends around my knees" (wow.) and "and place it in a book and when I feel so lonely, I'd open you up just to take a look" (seriously I wasn't expecting the sudden innuendo there).

    The rest is just filler, badly rhyming filler at that-have you considered doing free-verse instead?

    You mention in the additional details section that you don't read other poetry, (or something along those lines.) Start. Then you'll know how to write poetry well.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    soreness is a wierd element. Burning a finger or stubbing a toe can harm all night, yet when I shattered my wrist into 20 products (bones protruding), i did no longer sense something in any respect. i assume i replaced into merely into "operation mode," and that i found out that soreness could be a incapacity in getting mandatory scientific help. i do no longer think of the worst actual soreness can come on the brink of the psychological suffering many human beings have suffered. Merry Christmas, and each and all of the perfect to you and your loved ones. And be careful!

  • Sarah
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Great poem. I like the way you said "If I could compare you I would compare you to---- Because you can't really compare people with nature but nature is beautiful.

    Good Job!!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Thank you Peter, you made my day better with your lovely poem. A tear fell and a smile came to my face. Your Friend♥♥♥♥

  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry but this kept going through my head as I read yours.

    Admitted it is not the same but the flavour..

    just change the word "compare" to "remind" or something.

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

    Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

    And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

    Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

    And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

    And every fair from fair sometime declines,

    By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

    But thy eternal summer shall not fade

    Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

    Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

    When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

    So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

    Source(s): Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare
  • 1 decade ago

    I really like this poem. good Job you put alot of feeling into the poem

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    first few lines sound like shakesphere's poem

    Shall i compare thee to a summer's Day?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If you wrote it yourself then you deserve praise from me, but if you copied it somewhere, could you tell me the name of the real author? xD

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Aaaaaahhhhhh. You big softie that is sooooo lovely.x

  • 1 decade ago

    So good. I love your poem.

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