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Looking for a poem or two, loved up but humourous, any help?

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S1ur · 18/06/2008 22:07

Hello! thank you, I am looking for some love (ish) poems, short (preferably) about couples/relationships/marriage/love that sort of theme and maybe light-hearted (though not essential).

Also.... I think there's a poem by John Hegley which I heard once at a wedding, something about kissing maybe? or a couple? or something??? long shot but does anyone have a clue what I am on about?????

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Marina · 18/06/2008 22:10

Wendy Cope has some wonderful witty love poetry but she is famously (and entirely justifiably) red hot on her intellectual property rights so will not thank me or Mumsnet for reproducing them in full
Try and get hold of her two volumes of Faber verse, Making Cocoa with Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns - through a library or second-hand.

Marina · 18/06/2008 22:16

John Donne on the other hand is definitely long dead and wrote some excellent dirty poems before he found God and became Dean of St Pauls:

Elegy XX - To his mistress Going to Bed

Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy;
Until I labour, I in labour lie.
The foe ofttimes, having the foe in sight,
Is tired with standing, though he never fight.
Off with that girdle, like heaven's zone glittering,
But a far fairer world encompassing.
Unpin that spangled breast-plate, which you wear,
That th' eyes of busy fools may be stopp'd there.
Unlace yourself, for that harmonious chime
Tells me from you that now it is bed-time.
Off with that happy busk, which I envy,
That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Your gown going off such beauteous state reveals,
As when from flowery meads th' hill's shadow steals.
Off with your wiry coronet, and show
The hairy diadems which on you do grow.
Off with your hose and shoes; then softly tread
In this love's hallow'd temple, this soft bed.
In such white robes heaven's angels used to be
Revealed to men; thou, angel, bring'st with thee
A heaven-like Mahomet's paradise; and though
Ill spirits walk in white, we easily know
By this these angels from an evil sprite;
Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O, my America, my Newfoundland,
My kingdom, safest when with one man mann'd,
My mine of precious stones, my empery;
How am I blest in thus discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds, is to be free;
Then, where my hand is set, my soul shall be.
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee;
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be
To taste whole joys. Gems which you women use
Are like Atlanta's ball cast in men's views;
That, when a fool's eye lighteth on a gem,
His earthly soul might court that, not them.
Like pictures, or like books' gay coverings made
For laymen, are all women thus array'd.
Themselves are only mystic books, which we
?Whom their imputed grace will dignify?
Must see reveal'd. Then, since that I may know,
As liberally as to thy midwife show
Thyself; cast all, yea, this white linen hence;
There is no penance due to innocence:
To teach thee, I am naked first; why then,
What needst thou have more covering than a man?

TsarChasm · 18/06/2008 22:25

You could mean

Love poem by my dog

I saw you in the park
I wanted to be your friend
I tunnelled my snout
up your non-barking end

(maybe not though . Love JH)

I like this by Ogden Nash. I think it's advice to husbands or something. Anyway it's very true.

To keep you marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup
Whenever you're wrong, admit it
Whenever you're right shut up.

Bronze · 18/06/2008 22:27

Us Two. A A Milne

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