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]

@gotchabitch! wanna be sued for slander I have proof I wrote this so keep it up it was published shortly after I wrote it even entered it in a contest around the same time

[gotchabitch!]

~leppero Moments ago
"dude,sorry to inform you virginpoet has stolen your poem and pasted it as her own on a site called writerscafe."
here is the link.
[link]

you are only one in a long line of victims.

[tammytownend]

And about those posting dates: All you've done is edit older posts, replacing the original text with the poem you stole, on sites which don't say when a post was last modified.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

@tammytownend youve already said this so what your gonna post the same review on all my stuff well have fun

NOTHING has been proven you will be sued for slander I HAVE NEVER STOLEN POETRY FROM ANYONE IN MY LIFE so believe what you like

how are you gonna feel when its been proven I AM NOT the plagiarist and you've been harassing the wrong person

have you even looked at the posting dates which prove I wrote it and posted it first or are you blind

[tammytownend]

Virgin Poet is a plagiarist. It's been proved she stole her post F**k Me in Verses (http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/VirginPoet/659866/) from a user on DUP: http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/12019/ If you scroll down on the latter link you'll find this comment:

"I LOVE this poem wish I had thought of it in the way you did. You should read my poem "Devour me" cause reading ur poem makes me feel like that all over again. You know the feeling of butterflys and all that excitement that comes with it well thats how I feel when I read a good poem Thanks for all that. I think I just fell in love a lil bit"

Virgin's post Devour Me can be found here: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/VirginPoet/659869/
She has also stolen from many other poets and remains unrepentant even in the face of overwhelming evidence. The poem you've just read with her name on it has probably at least in part been plagiarised from someone else.
To the person reading this, especially if before now you've followed Virgin Poet's posts on this site, please help fight plagiarism and flag her. Provide WritersCafe with the links and comment above. It may be tough for some of you to believe but Samantha Campbell is a thief, and unless we all pull together in exposing her lies she'll carry on stealing from other people.

[Matt "Mickey" Denney]

This is awesome! I like the fact that you write a sort of amendment to a great write. You are quite a writer!

[Jed]

wow brilliant Samantha this is AMAZING
I cant find the words to say just how much !!!
you are incredible

[Luke Ritta]

Beautilful Poem....Great Poem....really good work!

[M.Babu]

This is marvelous!!!!

Fantastic Samantha:

Powerful and emotive, flowing and smooth progression...valid and heavy content...

The longing in the tone of the persona was astounding. The sort of self-doubt was relatable and the direction was so refined and different my friend.

This piece was absolute magic:)

~M.Babu~