The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 1/14/06)

[RetroLounge]

You Would Come

You have not made me suffer,
merely wait.

Those tangled
hours, filled
with serpents,
when
my heart stopped and I stifled,
you would come along,
you would come naked and scratched,
bleeding, you would reach my bed,
my bride,
and then
all night we walked
sleeping
and when we woke up
you were intact and new,
as if the dark wind of dreams
had newly given
fire to your tresses
and in wheat and silver had submerged
your body and left it dazzling.

I did not suffer, my love,
I was only waiting for you.
You had to change heart
and vision
after having touched the deep
sea zone that my breast gave to you.
You had to leave the water
pure as a drop raised
by a night wave.

My bride, you had
to die and be born. I was waiting for you.
I did not suffer looking for you,
I knew that you would come,
a new woman with what I adore
out of the one that I did not adore,
with your eyes, your hands, and your mouth
but with another heart,
who was beside me at dawn
as if she had always been there
to go on with me forever.

Pablo Neruda

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Hope you don't mind a bit more Neruda. He's quickly becoming my favorite poet...

RL

[lizziegrace]

1. Your poems always touch in some way

I can't always put into words how, but just know that they do.

Thank you.

[RetroLounge]

8. You are welcome...

:hug:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Mind? How could I possibly mind?

I am so grateful that you keep finding these.....

His poetry is magnificent! So evocative, so tender, so beautiful!

Thank you.......

[wildhorses]

3. this has the feel of a vampire to me

and CalPeg sees it as tender?



always amazes me how people can read the same lines and come away with totally opposite views....

[miss_american_pie]

4. I would have said complex

But i guess that's the mark of good poetry.

:shrug:

[RetroLounge]

5. "totally opposite views...."

Maybe that's the hallmark of a good poem?

Maybe any way you see it is correct, because it touched you that way.

How are you doing?

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

6. yes, I think it is the defining of good poetry

and the fact that it evokes different memories in all of us...


:hi:

I am alive and doin' fine....

:hug:just in case you need one today

[RetroLounge]

7. Never a day goes by that i don't need a hug.

just because I like hugs!

:hug:

RL

[RetroLounge]

9. Evening Kick

:kick:

RL