Untitled 14 March 2005

"For Bridgett"

I've loved you for so long
I hear "us" in every song

All the while I knew
You'd never know how I felt about you.

Thinking about us set my soul on fire
For years now you've been my only desire

But as I obsessed
Through feeling joy and being depressed

I always knew the day would come
When my fantasies would start to seem dumb

But then it's not just MY soul, it'd be yours too,
Sooner or later I'd have to choose

And as I grow up I'm starting to see
There are bigger things than you and me

As much as I'd love to be yours forever
I now know we weren't meant to be together

And I know I could sit and wish and wish,
But I know in my heart I'm not that selfish

I know there's things I must accept
Through the nights that I have wept.

But after all that I just want you to know
I love you enough to let you go

Amy G. Colwell
14 March 2005

Poetry by my my Angel

My 6 year-old daughter wrote a poem all by herself and I thought I'd share it. I did correct the spelling errors but the words are all directly from her:

The heart that you have stolen
you took away from me.
All that you need
is to steal the soul of me.
And if I loose my soul and heart.
But what you can't steal from me
is my dignity.

Pretty deep for a six year-old right? She's so awesome.

Hamlet Quotes

I'm reading Hamlet (Shakespeare) so expect a few of "My 100 favorite quotes from Hamlet" LOL.

Polonius's best speech: Telling his son Laertes how to behave in college

"And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear't, that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few they voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not guady:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
....
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all, - to thine own self be true;

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Can you imagine how awesome life would be if most people followed this advice?

Shakespearean quotes

"Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad:
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time."

~Marcellus (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1)

Death of Dawn

What light can I see if there is no dawn?
It was because of your perfection that to you I was drawn.
What happiness can be found when love is taken away?
Did we have enough time? Was there anything more to say?

Of our short time together, every moment I'll treasure
You will always be the One, the standard, the measure
Against which all others can never stand up next to
I will never find another who's love will be so true

You're more beautiful than the rainbow above the highest hill.
I didn't deserve you, I don't deserve you still.
But you chose me anyway, and made my life complete.
You gave birth to my children, and our house you kept neat.

Our love it was perfect. Our love, it was pure.
There will never bee another like it, of this I am sure.
While you were with me the sun always shone.
If you are to leave me I'll always feel alone.

Can I ever explain how grateful I am for you?
Do you have any idea how much I adore you?
My heart, it is broken - there's pain with each breath.
I will love you forever, even beyond death.

What will I do without you?
How will our kids do?
I feel your leaving is wrong
but I know I must remain strong.

Accept it I must.
In God I still trust.
Logic tells me I will go on.
But it will always be dark, because there is no more dawn.

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written 26 January 2010 for a friend who is losing his wife, who's broken heart I share.

Love According To Valentine

{Valentine}
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans,
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
With twenty watchful, tedious nights.
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" 1.1 (Act I. Scene I)

My thoughts: Sometimes I feel this way.

Favorite Shakespearean Quotes!

Since I have not been going through papers and I have not had the time or inclination to write anything good enough to post on here I thought I'd post a couple awesome quotes I found while reading Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" Then I thought maybe every once and a while I'd post my favorite Will Shakespeare quotes so I thought I'd make a thing of it.

Welcome to the first installment of AgaCobra's Favorite Shakespearean Quotes!

{Valentine} ...."I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."

{Proteus} ..."Think on thy Proteus (me) when thou haply seest
Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel."

I believe this means Val is intent on going for a trip rather than being a couch potato. Proteus (sorry, there's no way to shorten that and make it cooler) is either asking him to bring him back something or at least think of him when he sees something interesting and tell him all about it when he gets back.

I love Shakespeare!