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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Tue 15 Nov, 2005 05:44 am
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A Poet's Death is His Life IV
 



The dark wings of night enfolded the city upon which Nature had spread a pure white garment of snow; and men deserted the streets for their houses in search of warmth, while the north wind probed in contemplation of laying waste the gardens. There in the suburb stood an old hut heavily laden with snow and on the verge of falling. In a dark recess of that hovel was a poor bed in which a dying youth was lying, staring at the dim light of his oil lamp, made to flicker by the entering winds. He a man in the spring of life who foresaw fully that the peaceful hour of freeing himself from the clutches of life was fast nearing. He was awaiting Death's visit gratefully, and upon his pale face appeared the dawn of hope; and on his lops a sorrowful smile; and in his eyes forgiveness.

He was poet perishing from hunger in the city of living rich. He was placed in the earthly world to enliven the heart of man with his beautiful and profound sayings. He as noble soul, sent by the Goddess of Understanding to soothe and make gentle the human spirit. But alas! He gladly bade the cold earth farewell without receiving a smile from its strange occupants.

He was breathing his last and had no one at his bedside save the oil lamp, his only companion, and some parchments upon which he had inscribed his heart's feeling. As he salvaged the remnants of his withering strength he lifted his hands heavenward; he moved his eyes hopelessly, as if wanting to penetrate the ceiling in order to see the stars from behind the veil clouds.

And he said, "Come, oh beautiful Death; my soul is longing for you. Come close to me and unfasten the irons life, for I am weary of dragging them. Come, oh sweet Death, and deliver me from my neighbors who looked upon me as a stranger because I interpret to them the language of the angels. Hurry, oh peaceful Death, and carry me from these multitudes who left me in the dark corner of oblivion because I do not bleed the weak as they do. Come, oh gentle Death, and enfold me under your white wings, for my fellowmen are not in want of me. Embrace me, oh Death, full of love and mercy; let your lips touch my lips which never tasted a mother's kiss, not touched a sister's cheeks, not caresses a sweetheart's fingertips. Come and take me, by beloved Death."

Then, at the bedside of the dying poet appeared an angel who possessed a supernatural and divine beauty, holding in her hand a wreath of lilies. She embraced him and closed his eyes so he could see no more, except with the eye of his spirit. She impressed a deep and long and gently withdrawn kiss that left and eternal smile of fulfillment upon his lips. Then the hovel became empty and nothing was lest save parchments and papers which the poet had strewn with bitter futility.

Hundreds of years later, when the people of the city arose from the diseases slumber of ignorance and saw the dawn of knowledge, they erected a monument in the most beautiful garden of the city and celebrated a feast every year in honor of that poet, whose writings had freed them. Oh, how cruel is man's ignorance!

Khalil Gibran
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 16 Nov, 2005 03:59 am
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Geoffrey Chaucer

The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse


To you, my purse, and to none other wight,
Complain I, for ye be my lady dear!
I am sorry now that ye be so light,
For certes ye now make me heavy cheer;
Me were as lief be laid upon my bier.
For which unto your mercy thus I cry,
Be heavy again, or elles must I die!

Now vouchesafe this day, ere it be night,
That I of you the blissful sound may hear,
Or see your colour like the sunne bright,
That of yellowness hadde peer.
Ye be my life! Ye be my hearte's steer!
Queen of comfort and of good company!
Be heavy again, or elles must I die!

Now, purse! that art to me my life's light
And savour, as down in this worlde here,
Out of this towne help me through your might,
Since that you will not be my treasurere;
For I am shave as nigh as any frere.
But now I pray unto your courtesy,
Be heavy again, or elles must I die!

Chaucer's Envoy to the King.

O conqueror of Brute's Albion,
Which by lineage and free election
Be very king, this song to you I send;
And ye which may all mine harm amend,
Have mind upon my supplication!
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 16 Nov, 2005 04:06 am
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Butterfly

The Butterfly the ancient Grecians made
The soul's fair emblem, and its only name--
But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade
Of earthly life!--For in this mortal frame
Our's is the reptile's lot, much toil, much blame,
Manifold motions making little speed,
And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed.
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 18 Nov, 2005 04:23 am
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LA TRISTEZA DEL INCA

Este era un Inca triste, de soñadora frente,
de ojos siempre dormidos y sonrisa de hiel,
que recorrió su imperio, buscando inutilmente
a una doncella hermosa y enamorada de él.

Por distraer sus penas, el Inca dió en guerrero;
puso a su tropa en marcha y el broquel requirió;
fue sembrando despojos sobre cada sendero
y las nieves mas altas con su sangre manchó.

Tal, sus flechas cruzaron inviolables regiones,
en que apenas los rios se atrevian a entrar;
y tal fue, derramando sus heroicas legiones:
de la selva a los andes de los andes al mar.

Fue gastando las flechas que tenía en su aljaba,
una vez y otra y otra, de región en región,
porque cuando salía victorioso, lograba
levantar la cabeza, pero no el corazón.

Y cansado de tanto levantar la cabeza,
celebró bailes magnos y banquetes sin fin,
pero no logra nada disipar su tristeza,
ni la sangre del choque, ni el licor del festín.

Nada entraba en el fondo de su espiritu oculto:
ni las cándidas ñustas de dignástico rol,
ni los cirios de Quito, consagradas al culto,
ni del Cuzco, tampoco, los vestales del sol.

Fue llamado el más viejo sacerdote; Adivina
este mal que me aqueja y el remedio del mal;
dijo al gran sacerdote, con voz trémula y fina,
aquel joven monarca, displicente y sensual.

-Ay,senor! - dijo el viejo sacerdote -
Tus penas remediarse no pueden; tu pasión es mortal.
La mujer que has ideado tiene anil en las venas
un trigal en los bucles y en la boca un coral.

- Ay, senor! - ciertos dias vendran hombres muy blancos,
Ha de oirse en los bosques el marcial caracol:
cataratas de sangre colmaran los barrancos,
y entrarán otros dioses en el Templo del Sol.

La mujer que has ideado pertenece a tal raza,
vanamente la buscas en tu innumera grey,
y servirte no pueden oración ni amenaza,
porque tiene otra sangre, otro dios y otro rey

Cuando el rito sagrado le mando optar esposa,
hizo astillas el cetro con vibrante dolor,
y aquel joven monarca se enterró en una fosa
y pensando en la rubia fue muriendo de amor.
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 18 Nov, 2005 04:27 am
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Macchu Picchu

"somos hijos del mar
del sol, de la tierra, de la luna"
Himno al sol

I

«amanecer
sin el aroma azul de tu aliento
es ahondar
la soledad marina del deseo
en suaves delirantes extravíos
como olas de vergel
negadas por el viento
toscos galeones
desvían inciertos
el timonel emblema de los entes
y yo me pregunto
-tallador de jaguar en mis labios-
hasta cuándo
he de verme reflejado en los
espejos
¡babilonia de cemento aluminio
y de neón!»

II
de lejanos y agrestes
parajes vengo
a ofrendar
en culto
mi callada y lenta agonía
tan latente como el silencio
asolador ritual de los
tiempos
en el reino del bronce y del no-ser
soy la sonrisa letal de marfil
ante el cual
la lógica formal del mundo
se destruye estrepitosa en pedazos
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 18 Nov, 2005 04:31 am
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Trial by Ice


The not breathing
are not the only ones
not breathing
I know this is obvious
so is not walking under a falling anvil
(what is an anvil?)
if you saw someone about to walk
under a falling anvil
would you say
"hey, don't walk under a falling anvil"
or would you not want to say it
cause you didn't want to be obvious
cliches are skunk farts
bum
bard of the "of course" curse
ed
by the too far in garage
the sins of the apparent
bored into the chilly
if I'm not not
repeating myself
I don't think I've used
the obvious badly
smoke from a fire
does cause me
to think "fire"
is it o.k.
to yell "fire"
is it o.k.
to yell "fire"
at a fire
"Fire!"




MIKE TYLER was born and raised in New York City. The "most dangerous writer in America," he once broke his arm while reading (resulting in the poem "Logic Broke My Arm"). He was Poetry Director and editor of American Idealism Rag at the seminal downtown poetry anti-salon, ABC No Rio.
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Sat 19 Nov, 2005 09:57 am
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"The World Is To Much With Us; Late and Soon"
 


The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune,
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

William Wordsworth
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Sat 19 Nov, 2005 10:00 am
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A Dream Lies Dead
 


A dream lies dead here. May you softly go
Before this place, and turn away your eyes,
Nor seek to know the look of that which dies
Importuning Life for life. Walk not in woe,
But, for a little, let your step be slow.
And, of your mercy, be not sweetly wise
With words of hope and Spring and tenderer skies.
A dream lies dead; and this all mourners know:

Whenever one drifted petal leaves the tree-
Though white of bloom as it had been before
And proudly waitful of fecundity-
One little loveliness can be no more;
And so must Beauty bow her imperfect head
Because a dream has joined the wistful dead!

Dorothy Parker
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Sat 19 Nov, 2005 10:03 am
A Week Later
 

A week later, I said to a friend: I don't
think I could ever write about it.
Maybe in a year I could write something.
There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school. And in my dream
someone was playing jacks, and in the air there was a
huge, thrown, tilted jack
on fire. And when I woke up, I found myself
counting the days since I had last seen
my husband-only two years, and some weeks,
and hours. We had signed the papers and come down to the
ground floor of the Chrysler Building,
the intact beauty of its lobby around us
like a king's tomb, on the ceiling the little
painted plane, in the mural, flying. And it
entered my strictured heart, this morning,
slightly, shyly as if warily,
untamed, a greater sense of the sweetness
and plenty of his ongoing life,
unknown to me, unseen by me,
unheard, untouched-but known, seen,
heard, touched. And it came to me,
for moments at a time, moment after moment,
to be glad for him that he is with the one
he feels was meant for him. And I thought of my
mother, minutes from her death, eighty-five
years from her birth, the almost warbler
bones of her shoulder under my hand, the
eggshell skull, as she lay in some peace
in the clean sheets, and I could tell her the best
of my poor, partial love, I could sing her
out with it, I saw the luck
and luxury of that hour.



Sharon Olds
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CrazyDiamond
 
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Reply Sat 19 Nov, 2005 04:58 pm
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"I wandered lonely as a cloud"

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.


The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth
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