Poetic Offtakes... (Part One)

Poetic Offtakes...

(These poems were based upon and are my own spin on some beloved, well known poetic works and famed writings of poets. My goal in this and all my poetic endeavors, my excursions in writing an off take, spinoff, of a famed, well loved poem is to write a poem that is as good as or better than the poem which initially inspired it.)

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY... (A Fancy Amor)

The Fountains mingle, with the River,
And the Rivers, with the Sea.
In a Stir, they Cascade and Quiver,
Just As Your Rapture, Cascades, Over Me.

Your Beauty, Such Resplendence,
Stupefies Me, Ever So.
Intoxicating, Your Very Essence,
Such Rapture, You Bestow.
Of Beauty, You're The Very Quintessence.
It Just Gushes Out, Your Every Pore,
Bathing Me, In Fascinated Fancy,
Infatuating Me, Exhilarating Me, Utterly.

Mona Lisa... Venus... Aphrodite...
No One As Lovely, As You.
Mother Nature's Serene Beauty
Fails, In Comparison, Too.

As the winds, so softly and gently, blow upon the leaves and trees,
Playing Nature's, Sweet, Melody,
As they rustle, in what seems, a Symphony,
You rustle, My Heart, with Rhapsody,
Playing, Music, Upon, My Soul.
There is, No Greater Ecstasy, then that, which you Bellow.

As The Sunlight, Kisses, Your Skin,
As Your Lipstick gets to Taste, of Your Lips,
I'd like, to Taste, Your Succulence.
I'd give, anything, for just one Kiss.

As The Breeze, get to, Caress You,
My Hands, They Long To, As Well.
By Your Anatomy, I Am, So, Seduced.
You Leave Me, Utterly, Spelled.

Like The Starlight Illuminates The Heavens,
I like to, also, Your Heart,
I'd like to Shine, Upon You, With My Iridescence,
And Amorous Fancy, within you, Spark.
No Greater Earthly Blessing,
Than The Love, Upon You, I'll Impart.

All I ask is, for a few moments,
To My Amatory Intention Show,
And if to those few, you are open,
I Guarantee, I'll Make You Want, A Few More...

This poem was inspired by and based on Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Love’s Philosophy"

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

She Walks in Beauty... (A Sonnet)

She walks in Beauty, as Goddesses do,
Cascading, Rapture, Ecstasy, Delight,
Leaving, such Splendor, Magic, upon you,
As Your Soul Ascends to Heavenly Heights.

Oh, what Wonders, She Resounds, Enchants with.
Fascinated, she'll leave you, every time,
Her Siren Song, Beguiling, RhapsIdic,
Captivating, all, with a Spell, Sublime.

Fanciful Feelings, her presence brings.
Bewitching, she is, in every aspect.
She is, A Most, Exhilarating Thing,
Transfixed, she'll leave you, utterly, possessed.

With Pleasure, She Courts, like nothing before,
Leaving Heart's, in Flight and all Wanting, More...

Inspired By George Gordon Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

But Soft! What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?

But Soft! What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?
It Is, Beauty... A Goddess, Divine.
Of Such Rhapsody, I Long, To Partake.
By Her Wonders, I'm Left, Just, Stupefied.
Empyreal, The Rapture, She Bestows.
Every Single Part Of Me, Left, Wanting... More.
Such Ecstasy, She Plays, Upon, My Soul.
Each And Every Facet Of Her, Remarkable.
Exhilarated, I'm Left, Time After Time,
Inebriated... Besot... By Her Splendor, Sublime.
Mona Lisa's... Venus's... Nor Aphrodite's...
No One's Charms, More, Pleasurable.
Infatuated, I Am, By Her, Utterly.
Nothing, I've Known, More, Palatable.
With Intoxication... Fancy... She Delights Me.
I Get Drunk, Off Her Liqueur.
There Is, Magic, In Her Every Inch.
Lovely, Her Every Hue, Pore, And Tint.
Nothing, To Match, Her Alluring, Iridescence.
Of Woman, She Is, The Absolute, Quintessence,
The Fulfillment, Of GOD'S Intent,
Imparting, Upon Man, A Little Bit, Of Heaven...

This poem was born out of and inspired by the Poetic Monologue from the balcony scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

How Do I Love Thee...

How Do I Love Thee, I Cannot Count The Ways.
I Love Thee, More Than, Sun Kissed Days,
Than Starry Nights,
With A Far Greater Splendor, Than There Radiant Light.
The Resplendence There Of,
Though Majestic & Celestial, They Do Not Match, My Love.
My Love, For Thee, Greater, Than The Magic, In A Child's Eyes.
How Do I Love Thee, Mere Words, Can't Even Describe.

I Love Thee, With A Vigor, With Which, Mountains, I could Move
There's, Nothing, Of This Earth, To Match, My Love, For You.
And That Love, Will Always, Stand Strong.
It Shall Not Be Torn Asunder, But Cherished, Ever Long,
For, I Love Thee, With Such Ardor, Affinity.
Amorous, My Love, With Fervor & Fancy.
Nothing, Out There, Is Loved, More Reverently,
Than I Do You.
I Love, Your Heart, Your Soul, Your Essence, Your Each & Every Hue,
And That Love, Burns, Ever Fervent,
My Passion, For You, Immense, Ardent.
Nothing, Can Measure, Its Span.
It's Deeper, Than The Deepest Sea, Wider, Than Heaven.

There Is, Only One Thing, That Dwarfs, My Love.
It's Only Eclipsed By, One Thing, Known, To Us.
Only One Thing Doth Maketh. My Love, Seem, Minuscule, In Kind.
It's Only Overshadowed By, God's Love, Divine,
And It Shall Stand, Forever, Through Eons Of Time.
How Do I Love Thee, With A Love, Steadfast, Sublime...

Inspired By Elizabeth Browning's "How Do I Love Thee"

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

A Poem, to Woman, Beautiful!!!
Woman, How Do I Love Thee!!!

Woman, how do I love thee, I cannot count the ways.
It's such a rapturous feeling, each tine, upon you, I gaze.
It's Heaven, being in, your presence.
I get lost, within, the magic, of you.
I'm awed, by your iridescence,
Enchanted, by your haunting, heavenly hue.
There's just something about you I can't resist.
Such pleasure, it is, being in, your midst.
Woman, you are, my greatest love.
Of all of God's Creations, You, I place nothing above.

Woman, how do I love thee, there are no words, to fully capture.
No words can express, how I get lost in, your rapture.
The fervor, of my love for you, overtakes, all of my being.
You enthrall, my soul, in exhilaration, inspire me, to heights, unseen.
I know, no joy that compares to you.
Nothing, out there, thrills me, as such.
Such rhapsody, within me, you induce.
With you, woman, I am, in love.

Woman, how do I love thee, with my lips, let me express.
Not with my words, but with my, sensuous, sweet, kiss,
As it engross you, with my heart's passion,
Exploring, every inch of you, till you've reached, satisfaction.
How do I love thee, woman, how about I let my tongue show,
As it arouses, your passion, with long, slow, strokes,
Of uninhibited, intended, ecstasy,
Pulsate, your love, with pleasure, flutteringly.
Let me express, my passion, on every inch, of your body,
As I take a trip, down, to your silky, moistened, heaven,
And with lips and tongue, together, explore, every inch of, your sensual, supple, cavern,
As I lose myself, within the splendor, of you,
Tasting, every bit, of those sappid, succulent, savorsome, droplets, of dew.
Let me enter, inside, your love,
As I go back and fourth and in and out, pleasing you, such,
From the stimulating, satisfying, sensations,
The stroke of my love, in its many variations.

Woman, how do I love thee, all I asks is, one chance to show,
And the ardor, of my love, woman, you will know!!!
Woman, how do I love thee, Woman, I love thee, So...

Inspired By Browning's "How Do I Love Thee"

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

In Every Dream Thy Lovely Features Rise... (Sonnet)

In Every Dream Thy Lovely Features Rise,
Overwhelming Me, with Such Ecstasy.
You Enwrap, My Stomach, in Butterflies,
Leave, My Soul, Afluttering, with Fancy.
Entranced, I am, By Every Inch Of You,
Infatuated, As Never Before,
Hypnotized, Haunted, By Your Every Hue,
Nothing, out there, Intoxicates Me, More.

No Such Bewitchment, Have I, Ever Felt,
As The Magic, Of Your Presence, Divine.
Your Rhapsody Leaves Me, Immensely... Spelled,
Engrossed, Enamored, is this Heart, Of Mine.
Of Bliss, Heaven, Rapture, You So... Resound.
No Greater Paradise, out there, I've Found.

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

Shall I Compare Thee!!! (A Sonnet)

Shall I Compare Thee, to a Red, Red Rose?
No! You are, More Vibrant and Beautiful.
To your Splendor, There's, Nothing, To Come Close.
There is, no Love, that I would Rather Hold.
Shall I Compare Thee, to a Starry Night?
No! For Stars, I have seen, Fall, from the sky.
Stars Fade away and thusly, Lose, their Light,
But, Never, Shall You Fall, Fade, In My Eyes.
Shall I Compare Thee, to a Work of Art,
Sculpted, Painted, or Wonderfully Scribed?
No! The Beauty, Rapture, which you Impart
Could not be Sketched, Fashioned, nor could One Write.
Hands, of a Man, Could Not Such Grace Design.
To Compare, to you, Nothing, I Can Find.

Inspired By William Shakespeare's Sonnet # 18 "Shall I Compare Thee"

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

She Was A Phantom, Of Delight...

She Was A Phantom, Of Delight.
She Left Me, Raptured, Upon, Her Sight.
She Bathe, My Soul, In Ecstasy,
Took, My Gaze, And Captured, All Of Me.

My Soul, Was Dancing, Heart, In Flight.
She Left Me, Afluttering, With Butterflies
Transfixed, I Was, By Her Wondrous Light.
Her Charm, Her Magic, I Was, Captured By.
Elated, She Left Me, Upon, Cloud Nine,
Invigorated, Infused, By Her Wonders, Sublime.

Intoxicated, With Rhapsody, She Left Me, Wanting, More.
Besot, I Was, Enamored, So.
Heaven, Upon Me, She Did, Bestow,
Overwhelming Me, With Pleasure, As Nothing Before.

Her Siren Song, Sang, So Sweetly,
Summoning Me, To, Her Side.
Enthralling Me, Completely,
Leaving Me, Stupefied.
Surreal, The Feeling, She Did Cause.
Infatuated, Exhilarated, Spellbound, I Was,
Nothing Else Bewitches Me, Quite As, She Does...

Inspired by William Wordsworth's "She Was a Phantom of Delight"

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love

"The Joy of Beauty..."

A Thing Of Beauty, Is A Joy and Pleasure.
Its Resplendence, Such Heaven; There’s Nothing Better.
No More Gratifying, Nor Rapturous Sight To See.
Beauty, Oh Beauty, There's Nothing,To Compare, To Thee.
On Earth, There Is, No More Blissful Serenity.
You Bemuse, With Bewitchment, Drunken, So, With Fancy.
Your Essence, Just Enlivening, Makes, Each and Every Heart Leap.
Souls Relish, Midst Your Rapture, Dance & Frolic, With Glee.
Heavenly, You Are, To Behold.
By You, Beauty, I'm, irrevocably, Extolled!!!

Beauty, dear Beauty, such Splendor, You Impart, upon me.
Enchanted, I am, by your Witching, Wondrous, Rhapsody.
I'm Lost, Within, The Magic, Of You,
Wholeheartedly, Haunted, by your Heavenly Hue.
Awestruck, Amazed, every time, You Leave Me.
Beauty, oh Beauty, I'm Enraptured, by thee,
Spellbound, I am, To An Infinite Degree,
Enamored, with you, with the highest Affinity.
Intoxicated, Infatuated, Enthralled, In Ecstasy.
By Every Part, Of You, Left, In Wonderment.
Exhilarating, Your Very Sight.
By You, Beauty, I'm Left, In Delight...

Here's, to you Beauty, in all of your Resplendence,
To the Grandeur, of you, in all its abundance.
I'm Stupefied, Besotted, Every Time.
Invigorating, Inebriating, the Pleasure You Provide.
Nothing, quite like, Your Paradise, Sublime.
Your Charms, Alluring, Can't Be Denied.
Scintillating, Splendiferous is Your Utopia, Divine.
Fascination, Fancy, You Induce.
Your Effervescence, Simple Presence, Leaves Me, Seduced.
Nothing Matches, the Euphoria, Brought On, By You.
Enticing, Irresistible, Your Each and Every Part.
You Thrill, My Soul and Capture, My Heart.
Transfixed, I Am, By The Winsome Wiles, Of You,
Bedazzled, Beguiled, and Unabashedly, Wooed.
I'm Wowed, Up On A Cloud, Left, Uninhibitedly, Moved.
Your Ocean, Of Wonder, May I, Always, Fall, Into...

Inspired by John Keats "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever"

Robert Gardiner
R.G.Love