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"Dream Box" Poem

posted 9 years ago by WebBeachBoy
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When Hugh Grant's character is looking for information online about "Sophie Fisher" he sees a poem by her called "Dream Box' - which is nice but (irritatingly) the screen does not show it all.

The poem is:

I put my dreams in a box
So they'll never spoil
Hidden from the sunlight
Underneath the soil
You can never be too careful with a secret
As someone once said
But would you be safer to keep...............

Will the real writer please stand up and finish it ! :)

[–] always_keep_fighting 9 years ago

But would you be safer to keep it
In you heart, or in your head?

But would you be safer to keep it
Among friends, so it won't spread?

But would you be safer to keep it
As leverage, or blackmail, instead?

This is actually a very poorly written poem. The first four lines talk about her dreams, which she's hidden away. There's a nice rhythm, and the words flow well. Then she seems to change direction, style, and subject matter, (dreams in a box/a secret) leaving one to wonder what the hell she's talking about. This sounds like something a sixth-grader would write. If I were the writer, I'd get that junk off the web ASAP.