You have many immortal poems, but very few human ones....and I give you in true five beat couplets, with an iambic pentameter - a very human theme, but is this stark truth too much to bear.....? I sense it is!!


The Enemy Of Amour


1

The silken sheets, fresh roses and champagne -
And flattery, the hallmark of the chase!
And who can prove an error where they're lain -
The flesh unflawed caressed by sable lace?
Seduced by these, I wonder who'd abstain -
Would you - would they, pollute the pleasure place?
But then a slight corruption - say a cough,
Informs at 4am of flesh gone off!

2

And then, an odious outburst of methane!
That no perfume on earth can overpower!
Evoking such derision and disdain -
The purest moment sullied and so sour;
The enemy of amour one can't restrain -
Or is it only me obliged to cower?
A shame that love's grand treasurer, the heart,
Should find itself made bankrupt by a fart!




Poetry by John-Charles Cooke
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Written on 2010-02-21 at 19:24

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"To be made bankrupt by a fart,"
that is a novel idea. It probably won't
happen anytime soon where I live...
most people seem to laugh that off
or simply ignore it as pleasantly as they could muster.
:-)
2011-05-01