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finluithiel ([personal profile] finluithiel) wrote2009-02-03 08:14 pm

poetry meme

Snagged from [livejournal.com profile] boz4pm:

When you see this, post your favourite poem in your journal.

I'm posting poems that I love from two different languages because I cheat like that.

For Example, A Flower
by Arkaye Kierulf


We are protected from so much pain. For example: graves.
The earth’s roots and brown-black blood are busy

covering the soft, violated bodies of our loves.
Death is a secret, and the rain with its many hands

washes off the streets to the gutters death’s thick surprise.
The automatic shutter of the eye never fails,

the courtesies of the tongue. What goes on in the rooms of houses
is guarded from us by the hardwood doors,

the carefully closed windows. Whatever was said or done,
night will come, eagerly, to clean up.

And death will shield us, in time,
from the sun’s megalithic promise:

Tomorrow, the same day.
Tomorrow, the same day.

For example: A flower
is the most beautiful lie.

***

Ako ang Daigdig
ni Alejandro G. Abadilla


I
ako
ang daigdig

ako
ang tula

ako
ang daigdig
ang tula

ako
ang daigdig
ng tula
ang tula
ng daigdig

ako
ang walang maliw na ako
ang walang kamatayang ako
ang tula ng daigdig

II
ako
ang daigdig ng tula

ako
ang tula ng daigdig

ako
ang malayang ako
matapat sa sarili
sa aking daigdig
ng tula

ako
ang tula
sa daigdig

ako
ang daigdig
ng tula

ako
III
ako
ang damdaming
malaya

ako
ang larawang
buhay

ako
ang buhay
na walang hanggan

ako
ang damdamin
ang larawan
ang buhay

damdamin
larawan
buhay
tula
ako

IV
ako
ang daigdig
sa tula

ako
ang daigdig
ng tula

ako
ang daigdig

ako
ang tula

daigdig
tula

ako

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