Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUBBLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: You had best be very cautious Last Line: A bubble grows to die. Subject(s): Bubbles; Love | ||||||||
You had best be very cautious how you say, I love you. If you accent the I, she has an opening for, who are you to strut on ahead and hint there aren't others, aren't, weren't and won't be? Blurt out the love, she has suspicion for, so? -- why not hitherto? -- what brings you bragging now? -- and what'll it be hereafter? Defer to the you, she has certitude for, me? -- thanks, lad! -- but why argue about it? -- or fancy I'm lonesome? -- do I look as though you had to? And having determined how you'll say it, you had next best ascertain whom it is that you say it to. That you're sure she's the one, that there'll never be another, never was one before. And having determined whom and having learned how, when you bring these together, inform the far of the intimate -- like a bubble on a pond, emerging from below, round wonderment completed by the first sight of the sky -- what good will it do, if she shouldn't, I love you? -- a bubble's but a bubble once, a bubble grows to die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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