Bright Moon

a response to John Keats poem Bright Star

Bright star would I were steadfast as thou art
And kind and sweet and beautiful and good
Would I, like thee, suspended in the night
Gaze down with bright compassion on the world

But I'm not steadfast
Nor kind nor sweet nor good
And beauty means these twisted choking words
Self-contorted sentences and strangled poetry

Would I were steadfast Would I, like you
Could breathe the airless night
Would I, hung so high aloft the skies
And so alone " would I, like you
Burn radiant and bright

Bright star Would you were here
I do not crave your light
I crave your warmth and fingertips and flesh
I crave your burning lips your shining eyes
Your whispered words and dizzying embrace

Bright sun engulfing all the sky with light
And all the stars and all my head and heart
and flesh and soul

I am not a star I am the Moon
My beauty mere reflection of your own
These words cold barren craters in my heart
These words are pale moonbeams casting out
Hopeless through the cold and airless night
These words are pale moonbeams
Reflected light distorted ghostly memories
Of your scorching fevered kiss

These skies are cold this night is dark
The air around is deathly sparse

Bright star I love you
And when this racking love grows hard
I lift my eyes and remember this
Forever will I love thee
and you be bright



By Samantha Campbell

Author's Note

John Keats died at 25
200 years later
I thank God
for our superior medicine
and my inferior poetry.

This was inspired by the poem Bright Star and the life of English poet John Keats. Tuberculosis the medical care of the day and an unfortunate two month voyage to Rome all conspired to kill such a great young poet. I'm so grateful modern medicine is so much better. My poetry is no where near Keats so perhaps I'll escape the Grim Reaper's notice for a while longer yet

just edited this by adding pics lol

Reviews

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

MCN: CRBM8-W3RM9-3U1YG

[PJ]

yep I posted that back than its sad someone is trying to steal it and so very pathetic Im sorry this is happening to you sam but dont let them get you down people cant help but steal when they see greatness

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

proof its mine another person posted about my work back on Fri.09.18.09 10:51am

here is the link on http://www.melodramatic.com/node/5378884

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

@larrykissfan I feel so sorry for you, Your stupidity must really hold you back in so many aspects of you little insignificant life.

I said I have been published in several books and when I get the time I will do a video showing them so you tell me how the f**k can I fake that and no one can say Im lying or say the publishing houses do not exist

and after I will be expecting an apology from all of you not that Ill care either way it will just be humiliating for you and the others

[larrykissfan]

Go on and block me. Prove even more you're a coward. "@jamesjones lies she even said the same on poetry I have published in books years before" Who was the she you were referring to Samantha?

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

@larrykissfan so what if I blocked him what does that prove other than I tired of all this bull s**t. you will be blocked as well Coward funny you do not know me enough to make that claim who are you are you someone important someone whos opinions matter I dont think so so keep your 2 scents to yourself

I NEVER said a woman was the Aurthur but indeed I am a woman who wrote this and that site will be contacted as the others were

Its not my fault you dont have a life but dont butt into mine

[larrykissfan]

I see you blocked the original author Samantha. Coward.

[larrykissfan]

Did you not see the link Samantha? You clearly stole this poem from DeviantArt. Then when jamesjones confronted you you said the author was a woman when it was clearly a man. TAKE YOUR STOLEN WORK DOWN. Why do you hate poetry so much?

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

@fathertiresias I am so tired of her getting other people to lie and talk crap Im over and done with it u will be blocked

[fathertiresias]

Goddamnit that's my poem, you can't get around it by slightly changing the wording. Take it down now.