The Fool

Emi

I am the Fool; that is guaranteed

Always entertaining with jest

Idle with derisible folly indeed!

 

Yet all they see is my tainted disguise

Covering my mind and my thoughts

All but I left hopelessly unapprised

 

Quick to think yet careful to not offend

Perhaps none know what I can observe

But only know what I can pretend

 

All they hear is the strum of the guitar

As I watch the madness that unfolds

So close now yet seeming so very far

 

I see all yet I’m seen by naught

Perhaps they’d see past my feigning

If arose a pursuit of thorough thought

 

For so much time we all do have at present

To just sit a while and thoroughly think

And relish in the idle follies left unspent

 

The desires of the lovesick count

The jealousy of the countess’s cunning maid

To mere impetuosity it will all amount

 

But the quirks of each player in this game

Or the pieces of this frivolous puzzle

Will, regardless of persuasion, stay the same

 

And the player unheard and alone is me

For I am the jester, the joker, the fool

And to them, that is all I will ever be

 

  • Author: Emi (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 28th, 2011 17:00
  • Comment from author about the poem: This is a poem for my English class. It's not really final yet, which is kind of why I wanted to put it on here... so I could get some critiquing and maybe figure out ways to improve it. Anyways, it's supposed to be from the point of view of the Fool (Feste) in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and the bold words are ones that are required to be in the poem.
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Comments2

  • broken_dreams23

    Haha that's really good! 🙂

  • Anna

    This is amazing! I swear on my life that you`ll get an A++ (if they`re possible) on this! Or, you already got it 🙂 The bold words had a nice effect in the poem XD

    • Emi

      Haha thanks. 🙂 I got a 5/5. 🙂



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