Ophelia

Emmers00 · Post by **Emmers00** » 09 Jun 2015, 14:49

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Ophelia went down,
to the bank
and she wept.

He would not remember.
She could not forget.

“Dear singer?” The poppies innocently sighed.
“Why have you got that wetness in your eye?”

Ophelia wept on a moan of a name,
“O flowers he’s forgot me, my love…”
“Then do the same.”
“Dear flower what’s that?”

The poppies laughed a sweet song.
“Ophelia leave him, he’s done you so wrong!”

She gazed at the water, that smiled and slept.
The flowers all laughed, and called
“You’ll forget!”

Ophelia went up,
to the bark,
and she sang.

And all the way down,
she forgot,
her own name.

johappy · Post by **johappy** » 15 Jun 2015, 00:48

I can't express how perfect this is! I love how it rhymes, and I love the whole idea of it.

I'm guessing the poppies represent the peers of someone like Ophelia, who's trying to get over a broken heart. And as horrible as it is, I agree that if I were to forget something like that, I'd rather forget everything. Even if it ended terribly, experiences like that are too hard to just give up and forget.

This is probably one of my favorite poems ever. Wonderful, wonderful job.

Circling Turtle · Post by **Circling Turtle** » 15 Jun 2015, 05:08

This is beautiful, thank you... I actually felt a chill down my spine when I read the last few lines.

Nathrad Sheare · Post by **Nathrad Sheare** » 16 Jun 2015, 05:02

This is clever. Extremely. I've been writing poetry for a long time and I've been reading poetry since I was little. I definitely mean what I say.

Thanks for sharing, Emers00!

Emmers00 · Post by **Emmers00** » 16 Jun 2015, 20:12

Thank you all so much, I can't tell you how wonderful these comments are! You've all just made my day

-- 16 Jun 2015, 20:20 --

johappy wrote:I can't express how perfect this is! I love how it rhymes, and I love the whole idea of it.

I'm guessing the poppies represent the peers of someone like Ophelia, who's trying to get over a broken heart. And as horrible as it is, I agree that if I were to forget something like that, I'd rather forget everything. Even if it ended terribly, experiences like that are too hard to just give up and forget.

This is probably one of my favorite poems ever. Wonderful, wonderful job.

First of all thank you wholeheartedly. And for the poppies comment, I am always interested in hearing what certain lines in poems mean to different people. My original thought with using poppies was how in Hamlet, Ophelia gives flowers to the other characters, and each suggest a double meaning in it's symbolism. Poppies are symbolic of sleep, and it was less of her peers (who undoubtedly contributed to the destruction of her sanity) but more of a way to show her deteriorating mind in the form of a hallucination.
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