Daily Sip - The Look

Here's a little simple ditty for the day... Most of us have experienced this at some point!
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The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

-Sara Teasdale

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The internet's consensus is that "Strephon" is a real name. I call shenanigans.

Quick! Make up some fanfiction for Strephon and Sara! Even in an alternate universe, could they make it work?

Strephon and Sara just can't make it work. Maybe for a one night stand or a summer sexxxy fling, but they just don't have it.

Colin on the other hand, sounds the ultimate hard to get bad boy. She will spend her days pining for him, lollygagging in his presence and doing everything she can to make him hers, but he just wont have it. She isn't a chase for this dreambot.

Robin is where it sticks. Mm indeed.

Oh, I think I meant Sara and Colin, not StRephon. Oops!

I like your storyline, Britt. Someone else will have to fill in what happened on those steamy summertime dates.

I somewhat disagree. It seems to me that Strephon is a youthful encounter, Robin a bit later, but still not mature. Colin is a wise and serious man who saw through the coquette and disquieted the woman inside. She knew he saw right through her and will never be able to get the feeling out of her system unless she changes to become what he knows her to be capable of.

You guys crack me up. Love the poem! I can definitely relate.

EDIT:

Stephron was a mistake, no doubt about it, and Robin is the real winner, but Sara will take him for granted and leave him for Colin someday. This will be her downfall.
The grass isn't always greener, Sara, sorry! Learn to appreciate what you've got, or you'll lose it all.

Sara was attractive, rich, and the lead cheerleader. Stephron was a cute friend of a friend at a party and Robin was the popular jock in high school.

But Colin wore glasses, played violin, walked his little sister home from school everyday, and had cheekbones that could slice butter.

Sara didn't trust herself to be around Colin- not only because her family would disapprove of his, but because she was afraid of sounding vacuous to him. And Colin never thought he had a chance with Sara, and told himself she was nothing but a pretty face.

But, in truth, they would have been a good match. He was serious and complicated, and she had a refreshingly sweet simplicity that could cut through his tedium.

Sara married some rich dude who was always travelling, she gave birth to triplets, and lived a life of lonely luxury.

Colin wrote profound, bitter works from his attic room above a shop. These were never published. He died prematurely from poor health.

His little sister, upon cleaning his room, found his last novella, "If I Had Kissed Sara". The sister located Sara's address and delivered it to her.

Sara was heartbroken and killed herself somehow, silently yet dramatically.

Moral of story: Kiss people, lots.

I've so been looking towards your story, Abbafabulous!

Hahahahaha ABBY, my god, greatness!

I adore this poem, thank you sib!

I think it was pretty meaningful and I couldn't care less about the spring kiiss, nor the fall one...I think the writer only needed a timezone to reach her point..the 1st lovers are just past experiences as for the person who's kiss was anything but NoT physical, he and his way of loving stood beyond time and place, hence nothing can erase or get rid of it.

Anyway, beautiful :)

Okay, had this piece on my mind since I read it ..so just had a different thought, perhaps haunts her cause she never got the chance to ...reach it..

BS ? okay..

Bahaha. Abby, that was pure gold. I'll be sure to keep that lesson in mind.

I declare Abby, winner.

Yeah, I'm a natural at writing crap. That said, I might be a psychic. According to the Wikipedia article on Sara Teasdale, some fragments of my story aligned eerily with her real life:

* She was courted by many suitors.
* A certain Vachel Lindsay, a poet, was in love with her, but Sara married a richer man.
* Her husband travelled the world, leaving her lonely. She divorced him.
* Sara rekindled her friendship with Vachel, however he was already married with children.
* Vachel killed himself.
* Sara, suffering from ill health, killed herself with sleeping pills soon after.

Bloody hell.

Eerie.

Do me! Do me!

Lol me too :p ABBY you could make fortunes!!

Be careful what you ask for . . .