finluithiel (
finluithiel) wrote2009-02-03 08:14 pm
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poetry meme
Snagged from
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
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 |
