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Sunday, June 7, 2009

A Random Thought

I must be feeling a bit misanthropic, therefore, I need a little poetry.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - by William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.


And because it will be a full moon tonight...

To the Moon- by Rainer Maria Rilke

Moon, svelte person,
who makes you pregnant
every month?
And who makes you always
engrossed in your pregnancy
--almost terrestrially?

You attract the blood
of our pubescent virgins.
But what do you mother
twelve times a year?

Shall we raise your light
offspring in ourselves?
Inside me I found a soft
candle decorated with gilt
which I think suits your taste.

8 comments:

  1. I so often feel like I don't have the time or the patience to read poetry, but reading these, they take me to a welcomed creative place. Thank you for sharing!

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  2. Wow! Those are awesome.

    The one by Yeats particularly hit my heartstrings.

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  3. Beautiful. I especially like the second one.

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  4. I just started reading Rilke - amazing stuff. What a poet!

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  5. Honestly, I had no idea Rilke wrote that. I've got to read more of his poetry now.

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  6. Thanks all. I love Yeats and Rilke. Yeats because in his early years he was such a romantic. Rilke because he had such a deep compassionate understanding of the plight of womanhood.

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  7. These are beautiful...I love the thought of spreading your dreams under your loved ones feet...that is so touching...

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  8. These poems are really beautiful.

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