The Idiot

Her Sunset

I find you sitting watching evening trees
Light fading into the west
You smile
at your magnificent friend, the sun
which falls slowly, with amazing grace
- backwards off the edge of the world

Your skin is blushed with its crimson glow
I have never seen anything so beautiful
as that sky, with clouds dispersing
The lonely buzzard's call
and the moon awakening
until you turn and see me

And then quite suddenly
and unbearably
my heart is breaking

Endymion 2007

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I like the imagery, Endymion, and it has a nice rhythm.

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Thanks for reading and letting me know Tai Chi

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The End

Now that she has gone
my heart falls to the ground
a worthless lump of meat
I am hollowed
Crumbling into nothing
Soon I will no longer exist
I lie like an empty coat
and wait for the sun to go down
I don't think I have it in me now
to get up off the ground
I am beat
Smashed up and underneath
a dark, disturbing cloud
of desperate yearning
And the blackest shroud
of my defeat?
My world is burning

Endymion 2007

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Untitled Love 1

have you any idea
how beautiful you are to me?
how you fit into my heart
like a memory
a spirit that lifts me
my god, you make me smile
I only have of think of you
and my joy overwhelms me
right now I can feel love
and for a little while
it is enough

Endymion 2007

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Untitled Love 2

I walk the earth alone
but hell, you're on my mind
Woman, if I could take you home
and make you mine
I'd write love poems
for all time

Untitled Love 3

she is like a violin
that speaks to me
and rolling drums
and dope
and ecstasy

Endymion 2007

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Adieu

Soon you will be lost to me
Like a message thrown into a vast sea
Or gulls blown far away by storm
Soon you will be gone

Soon I will be just a dream
Someone you knew
Some place you'd been
Where the line is thin
And ancient and strong
But you'll forget before too long

Soon the days will pass me by
The written word will fade and die
We came so close but time moves on
Soon you will be gone

Endymion 2007

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Endymion wrote:

Untitled Love 1

have you any idea
how beautiful you are to me?
how you fit into my heart
like a memory
a spirit that lifts me
my god, you make me smile
I only have of think of you
and my joy overwhelms me
right now I can feel love
and for a little while
it is enough

Endymion 2007

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Untitled Love 2

I walk the earth alone
but hell, you're on my mind
Woman, if I could take you home
and make you mine
I'd write love poems
for all time

Untitled Love 3

she is like a violin
that speaks to me
and rolling drums
and dope
and ecstasy

Endymion 2007

Even for someone who doesn't believe in love, these are incredibly touching and beautiful.

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wanting to believe isn't believing

i feel the same about religion

thanks Naima, I'm glad you like

peace
Endy

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Aphrodite

She moves around the room
Like a spirit of the moon
She makes old men stumble
And young men swoon
She is Aphrodite
Her touch is a caress
And I am overwhelmed
By her loveliness

Endymion 2007

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Endymion wrote:

wanting to believe isn't believing

that would be putting it right! Very Happy

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Too Long, The Night

Already it has been too long
Silence stares me in the eye
- coldly challenging and contemptuous

The moon is bright
I am alive
But without your sweet and wise counsel
I'm lost
Like a confused moth I search
for focus
My guiding light

There is no rest from this
nightmare of the mind
I pace the house
Or sit and sigh
I cannot eat
Nor sleep
Nor write

Will this sorrow never die?
No reconciliation
No end
No peace in sight?
Already I have been too long alone
without you
Curse the night

Endymion 2007

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Cinnamon

I see you in a market place
holding ribbon tied cinnamon
close to your face

On a hillside path somewhere
looking out across a bay
with the sun in your hair

I see you everywhere

I see you sitting outside a street café
With a man in a suit
Who insists on paying

I see you falling asleep in a big armchair

I see you everywhere

Endymion 2007

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As I Think Of Her Now

As she grows fainter
As she draws further away
As her fingertips slip
into the mist
As night ends day

As the last leaf falls
And the stars implode
As the waves rise higher
And the wild geese fly home

As the journey ends
As she had intended
As she disappears, the mist has cleared
and the wound is mended

As she is in my heart
As she strengthens me
As she touches other people's lives
and sets their world free

As I think of her now
Wherever she might be
I wonder
in a strange moment
does she sometimes think of me?

Endymion 2007

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For a moment
***************

Just for a moment
I heard her
Or thought I did
She whispered to me
through the trees
but I couldn't answer
for shame for needing her

I listened
but she did not call again
and when at last
I said her name
it was to silence
She was gone once more
If she ever really spoke before

Endymion 2007

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I love the last two, Endymion.

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hey, dagmaraka

It's good to hear from you
In 2005 you told me to "Keep up the good work" - then I never heard from you again. Laughing

I'd come to the conclusion that I'd f*cked up somehow - (and actually, I have)
but it's good to know you are still reading some of my work - it means a lot to me

Peace
Endy

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