In the Middle of the Desert, I find a Young Tree
Beautifully standing
Smiles to embrace the harsh
Sun that kills all
The tender greens in sight
My body, exhausted after the journey
has found its true companion
So I name it after you
And lay in its edible, purplish shade
The world fades away
For the time being
WHO "I" am no longer matters
What "I" have learned has been undone
I am convinced
We were born from the same Mother
Fed on the same breasts
Though thousand miles apart
I want it simple, this love!
In the middle of the desert, so close to you
My face in your palms, slowly undressing
Renaming each minute of our love’s passing
In the middle of the desert
I have found you and the life
All around you
And all the lives inside me
:6/2/05
Paz has too many books worth reading.
His best prose is the Labyrinth of Solitude, but I started with In light of India for no particular reason.
poems collected in his a draft of shadow & a tree within
are really really good
beautifull said, ltg, also Dao De Jing is a "bible" of Jung :)
rc 发表评论于
Glad that you also love Dao De Jing. If I can only pick one favorate book, Nodoubt I will picj Dao De Jing!
Hmmm....No wonder..
LTG 发表评论于
The "Way" is in Mother Nature....Universe....
"We" came from them....
"We" want love....
"We" need love....
"We" want to love....
From whom do we learn about Love??
Mother Nature, Father Nature....where Life springs from....
When i meet a loving person, for example, there is always some earthy quality in her....
BTW,
Dao De Jing is one of the greatest books ever written by two-legged creatures:)
rc 发表评论于
YY. which book of Paz would you like to recommend?
rc 发表评论于
LTG, Can you explain what you just said again? ABout love and MOther nature..
影云 发表评论于
rc ,wowow:)you should read Paz then, a person who is both a best critic and a best poet :)
true, a good poem has a strengh/energy of "opening self (of poet and readers)"
LTG 发表评论于
then, we can reread Dao De Jing again, or The Way, in which the Mother Nature/Universe has already "preprogrammed" the activites on earth including the two-legged creatures called human beings :)
so, art should also be nature-like....natural, to say the least....
love without nature is not love.....
rc 发表评论于
Energy flows freely in virtual world, who are the strangers?? :))
I feel that a good poem fills with condensed energy!
When talk to the artistic friends through computer, my logical mind is being stained with the "vague and tender" colors..:)
影云 发表评论于
thinking is like digging
the deeper, the more
. . .
amazing!!!
strangeness
cannot find its space
between "hearts
connected so enigmatically"
:)
LTG 发表评论于
y.y.
don't be a "stranger"!!
:))
it is amazing how much wisdom you all have....really....
影云 发表评论于
discussion again? (; ))
wow, "stranger" makes me think what is strange now :)
LTG 发表评论于
forgot who said it, but it goes like:
a good poem should contain good energy....
good energy not only travels between lovers, but also strangers....
are "we" strangers??
:)
影云 发表评论于
very well-said, rc:)
rc 发表评论于
Willing to travel through the desert needs unusual courage.
Standing and growing in the desert needs tremendous strength..
Finding each other among the desert needs unexpected fortune
Falling in love with each needs Heaven's bless..
Whoever can find his/her true love is rrrrrreally blessed.
LTG 发表评论于
a piece of the mind...
peace of the mind.....
glad i "caught" the poem before it escapes me :)
影云 发表评论于
u r very very welcome:)
love the poem, it has strength beneath its tenderness, very beautiful
