True Love?

I wouldn't want to be like Juliet.
Is a crush really something to die from?
I mean REALLY, they had just met,
It's so over the top, and VERY dumb.
And Romeo, PLEASE!  What were you thinking?
Was your life only worth a pretty face?
You don't even think twice about drinking?
You never even got past second base.
All I can say is they were WAY too young,
They didn't know first love's not eternal.
They got high on emotion and they clung
despite hurdles, no matter how painful.
Romeo and Juliet, Romantic?
Or two manic kids whose end was tragic?

Competition

When one measures,
What are the things one should compare?
Should one measure?
It only adds to one's hauteur.
If only attention was shared,
There would be no need to compare,
Where one measures.

Response to #110

The exercise this time is on Transliteration above is the online translation of a poem in Czech and below is my response.

To Push

Is more or less

To ask yourself

How you can go on

When you're stuck

Going round about all year

Knowing that you're a slob

Reaching deep in your soul

To discover who

It is you want

To find in your heart

Waiting to be moved

Response to #109

Drawing on Emotion

Sometimes I think I am a stone

A person too simple to like,

I thought emotions were like froth

Surging up, not buried alone

Beneath infertile gound, I strike

With a shovel, yet can't sunder,

I can't even shoulder my phone

So I don't question what my psych

Brunt as it is says about me,

I wish I could be Hercules

Strong enough to feel what is me

By Brandy Reeves