As you like it.. the word "if"

Page masters Challenge #11 inspired by as you like it, and the word "if" I can understand if you cant read this, I can hardly read it myself, so if its too much of a problem let me know and I�ll type it.

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Kind lords, ladies, loves of all, tempest parity linguists
ye whom feast hardy upon daubery prose, she to he to
her to the affectioned many ne'er pensive o'er bounteous
neywords set to song by word oneyer candle wasters,
ye standing rattling the clack-dish half full with stars
diminutive illume mercies enmesh'd in rushing nights
stream and grant a voice eloquence otherwise featureless.
For from our pens a blood-bolted weary toil utter we sit
fordone, most capricious poets erring unbarbed unbracen'd
we unlook to joy once found in askance, where once
nothing lay ahead but to kiss the air, its spring breath, gentil
the caress to our ears, tis a desert! As dry as marble tombs,
as suffering as the absent argument of what in spirit
cannot arrest or alas attest, but disguise well upon
the unfolding star that settles the flock, a silent hark to
bid the Sheppard's dream deep as deep as forgotten
in upon their glowing fires ever present in our core.
Warm the touch near and roughly rub away thine day
to moodgilded dust, sprinkle it measured affined
o're and toward emerald fields lingering dews, truths,
half truths and full lies, fallen dull sullen dead
millstones to weep, if only we were poets, such in heart as thee.

Reviews

[W.k.kortas]

One of the problems when someone attempts to write in the language or style of a bygone era is that very often the results sound forced or highly unnatural. There are no such failings here; the flow of the piece is natural, with the patterns of speech, and there is no clunkiness of syntax or meaning. Very impressive piece of work.

[KUFU]

hehe...i's all good ma. I often lose people in translation also. ;-)

[KUFU]

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, yeah...OKAY, but I bet you can't speak Elfish!! So there! HAH!!
Yer handwriting has an elegance to it though. Looks like you wrote upon pressed-leaf paper.

(AO having no idea what the poem means, except that he feels the poem speaks of being One with Ones poetry/poetics)

[Floornine]

This is really gorgeous, you paint a beautiful, but sorrowful picture... nice use of early modern english, you work very well with it.