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“God help us
you full of talk of a city called Edinburgh
and me in silence so very deep we were so very much in love.
And the burns and sikes and streams
though shallow
were deep music to us.
You trout-tickler,
you flower-picker,
climber in willow trees, me laughing below
as best I could laugh, though you never thought it ugly.
Indeed the word you used was the word beautiful,
pinning cowslips behind my ears,
you patting and running fingers through our
beckwashed hair.
Lying by the marigold beds
bare toes entwined, then dancing under branches
before the elms ever died. But our mutual hearts never did.
Bar it is 7 and your raining rage
must cease
under my morning moon.
In my dawn shawl looking dawndown upon you
in your foot-striding fellhighhighupuptopheavyrainbeatingrainrain.
We have always walked together so long.
In the long grass we walked and walked forever so long so very language long
and I could say so once you had the slate in my lap.
My tongue blank - FOREVER, word we wrote on a slate, remember
when you taught me? - only my hands and eyes moving now - two
daughters we could have had -
but I am looking kindly and lovingly on you
'Please do it'
- cool your raging fire lovelorn heart - for me.
And love me - forever.”
― Pearl in the Silver Morning
you full of talk of a city called Edinburgh
and me in silence so very deep we were so very much in love.
And the burns and sikes and streams
though shallow
were deep music to us.
You trout-tickler,
you flower-picker,
climber in willow trees, me laughing below
as best I could laugh, though you never thought it ugly.
Indeed the word you used was the word beautiful,
pinning cowslips behind my ears,
you patting and running fingers through our
beckwashed hair.
Lying by the marigold beds
bare toes entwined, then dancing under branches
before the elms ever died. But our mutual hearts never did.
Bar it is 7 and your raining rage
must cease
under my morning moon.
In my dawn shawl looking dawndown upon you
in your foot-striding fellhighhighupuptopheavyrainbeatingrainrain.
We have always walked together so long.
In the long grass we walked and walked forever so long so very language long
and I could say so once you had the slate in my lap.
My tongue blank - FOREVER, word we wrote on a slate, remember
when you taught me? - only my hands and eyes moving now - two
daughters we could have had -
but I am looking kindly and lovingly on you
'Please do it'
- cool your raging fire lovelorn heart - for me.
And love me - forever.”
― Pearl in the Silver Morning
“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“there's a terrible silence
before a predator's night
sometimes
an absurd airplane
appears in the sky
it throws out leaflets
calling for surrender
I would be happy to surrender
but I've no one to surrender to”
― The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
before a predator's night
sometimes
an absurd airplane
appears in the sky
it throws out leaflets
calling for surrender
I would be happy to surrender
but I've no one to surrender to”
― The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
“together we had water and silence and fire and togetherness
the lights of all you didn't say knots my life and all dreams.”
― Pearl in the Silver Morning
the lights of all you didn't say knots my life and all dreams.”
― Pearl in the Silver Morning
“I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.”
― Forefathers' Eve
― Forefathers' Eve
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