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Master
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since 1999-08-18
Posts 1867
Boston, MA

0 posted 2001-12-01 01:28 AM



I

Quiet down my heart,
I’m confounded.
Over the mountains,
your trumpets
resound
too ardently.
The echo
of your verse
submerses me.
I beg of you,
“Mercy!”
My eardrums are bursting
nervously.
enough!
enough!
enough of this!
Enough of this love!

II

This love is outrageous,
I rage.
Without patience,
I rip open (my cage)
my ribcage,
and whistling,
tear my heart to pieces.
It’s ripe,--
on each piece,
her initials are inscribed.
And senseless,
my eyes wander
endlessly
from N to T.
Submerged in thought,
destiny
pensively,
traces the road
from New York to Toronto
with a pencil.

III

Answer me,
“Is it in you?”
If your answer is “no,”
whisper
tenderly,
rip through my sinew
softly
and go.
If your answer is “yes,”
caress me
but once
with its stress
and leave me breathless...
...yes!
...do
...leave me deathless.
Answer me,
“Is this love in you?”

IV

I grow tense,
“Say it.”
Silence
ascends
skyward
with a prayer.
Bottomless
puddles
(those are your eyes)
reflect boundless
skies.
This love is beguiling,
smiling,
it hides
behind
the corner
of life’s corridor
and behind that corner,
there’s a coroner.

V

I feel like a foreigner,
I don’t belong here.
What is this that I crawl on, --
all this fluff,
a cloud?
“That is my shroud.”
Almighty,
in this love,
I was buried alive.
There’s been a mistake,
I was taken
to paradise,
because she paralyzed
me with her eyes.
It’s too crowded here
and oddly,
I miss
my body.
“All right then...
awake!”

VI

I fall through the air
carelessly,
and awake
somewhere
on a bus
near Albany,
someone is calling me...
shaking me
impatiently.
“Dear sir,
I must
check your ticket.”
Enough!
just take it.
“Reason for your vacation?”
love...
“Destination?”
near her...

VII

Listen,
mirror,
can you hear me?
Hear my heartbeat?
I need her...
I need her
near me.
Reflect me
with affection
tenderly,
perfect
my identity,
whisper in my ear
and beguile me!
Smile
from above me
mildly.
Tell me
that she'll love me,
lie to me!

VIII

The heart is drained
and the ink
hasn’t dried yet.
Pull the shades lower.
It’s private,
don’t look over
my shoulder.
Too late to hide it,
it’s spilling,
it’s brimming over
the sink.
In wild convulsions,
it surges.
It floods the buildings,
the schools, the churches,
the squares,
the courtyards
and Eden’s orchards.
I can’t contain it,
this love is gorgeous!

IX

Alighting
my soul
from above
with a thousand torches,
this love
scorches me!
It burns inside me
and tortures me!
The world
is too small
to hide me.
Now that you’ve nurtured me,
open your eyes!
On the crossroads,
I’m hanging exposed,
arms – crosswise
across the skies.
Only notice me
and I’ll arise.

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Knight of Secrecy
Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 113
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1 posted 2001-12-01 10:19 AM


WOW! Great Poem!. I loved it.

"“Reason for your vacation?”
love...
“Destination?”
near her..."

I really related to this poem. The same thing is happening or happened to me for I don't know the end of it yet.

"Tell me
that she'll love me,
lie to me!"

I loved that line!, exactly how I feel right now, it choked me up, got me emotional and practically no poems do that to the brink of tears. I am amazed how you could express this. Into my library.

Five Stars
* * * * *

-C.M.


"I feel the sting of an insignificant wasp, and yet,  I fear that I am alergic"

Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665
Twilight Zone
2 posted 2001-12-06 02:47 PM


~*standing ovation*~

là où est mon amour?
donde está mi amour?
wo ist meine Liebe?


chasing rain
Senior Member
since 2001-05-15
Posts 737
Canada
3 posted 2001-12-06 09:42 PM


*ditto*

++ Leah ++

Va pensiero sull' ali dorate...

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