#Darvey poetry thread (once more) and this time with my solemn promise to finish it!

If you have seen this before, then you are right. I am transferring it to my currently active account (piece by piece) because my old account is defunct now.

I hope you all like it.

#Suits - Pilot (01)

I gave myself to him,
And took himself for pay.
The solemn contract of a life
Was ratified this way.
...
At least, ’t is mutual risk,—
Some found it mutual gain;
Sweet debt of Life,—each night to owe,
Insolvent, every noon.

Emily Dickinson

#Suits - Inside Track (03)

But this is Nature’s law, love,
Though just it may not seem,
That men should wake to sing, love;
While maidens sleep and dream.

(Paul Laurence Dunbar, Night of Love)

#Darvey

#Suits - Bail Out (05)

you are
a concordance of person, number, voice,
and place, strawberries spread through your name
as if it were budding shrubs

(Reginald Shepherd, You, Therefore)

#Darvey

Also gotta love how the poet has Harvey's middle name & got the strawberries ref

#Suits - Play The Man (07)

But we were young, did not need much
To make us laugh instead, and touch,
And could not hear ourselves above
The arias of death and love.

(A.E. Stallings, Recitative)

#Darvey

#Suits - Identity Crisis (08)

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, The Look)

#Darvey

#Suits - Undefeated (09)

How i was crazy how i cried when i heard
over time
and tide and death
leaping
Sweetly
your voice.

(e.e. cummings, Amores)

#Darvey ("You know I listen")

#Suits - Rules of the Game (11)

But when a soul, by choice and conscience, doth
Throw out her full force on another soul,
The conscience and the concentration both make
mere life, Love.

(Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Love)

#Darvey

#Suits - Dogfight (12)

How love came in I do not know,
Whether by the eye, or ear, or no;
Or whether with the soul it came
(At first) infused with the same;
Whether in part ’tis here or there,
Or, like the soul, whole everywhere

(Robert Herrick, Of Love: A Sonnet)

#Darvey

#Suits - Dogfight (12)

What was said to the rose that made it open was said
to me here in my chest
...
that is
being said to me now. I blush. Whatever put eloquence in
language, that's happening here.

(Rumi, What was told)
#Darvey (Need to read the full poem to get the picture)

#Suits - Dogfight (12)

You are the beautiful half
Of a golden hurt.
You remember and covet his mouth
To touch, to whisper on.
Oh when to declare
Is certain Death!

(Gwendolyn Brooks, To Be In Love)

#Darvey (one of my favorite scenes to do & poem to choose)

#Suits - She Knows (13)

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me
in the old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself
able to let go
alone all the way.

(Robert Creeley, Loves Comes Quietly)

#Darvey

#Suits - The Choice (14)

It’s being enslaved of your own free will;
it’s counting your defeat a victory;
it’s staying loyal to your killer.

But if it’s so self-contradictory,
how can Love, when Love chooses,
bring human hearts into sympathy?

(LUÍS VAZ DE CAMÕES)

#Darvey

#Suits - Break Point (17)

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

(Robert Frost, The Secret Sits)

#Darvey

#Suits - Break Point (17)

But my love is more like an ice sculpture
In a country of perpetual coldness, which the heat
Of your anger cannot damage, nor the pick

Of your words impugn.

(Monica Ferrell, Of the Irresolubleness of Diamonds)

#Darvey (another one of my fav scenes)

#Suits - Break Point (17)

You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and —
Just tired.

[e.e. cummings, you are tired (i think)]

#Darvey