The Second Coming

[JTParreira]

(To Charles Bukowski)

Waiting for Him
like a house waiting
a sympathetic thief

what will jump
on the house
like a perfume

He will see this
pale
house

will take it
this pile
of nothing

He moving my slow thoughts
he will reel the shadows
of the ignoble things.

J.T.Parreira

[firefangled]

(To Charles Bukowski)

Waiting for Him
like a house waiting
a sympathetic thief

what will jump
on the house
like a perfume

He will see this
pale
house

will take it
this pile
of nothing

He moving my slow thoughts
he will reel the shadows
of the ignoble things.

J.T.Parreira

Yes, you said what I could not about him. The last stanza, the pure truth.

There is a telling piece of journalism or interviews in two parts by Mimi Leider from the 1970's I think about Bukowski. I've mentioned it to Fifth.

[blazeofglory]

(To Charles Bukowski)

Waiting for Him
like a house waiting
a sympathetic thief

what will jump
on the house
like a perfume

He will see this
pale
house

will take it
this pile
of nothing

He moving my slow thoughts
he will reel the shadows
of the ignoble things.

J.T.Parreira

This title is from W.B. Yeats'. The poem is inundated with beautiful images.

[AuntShecky]

Yes, I saw the title and immediately thought of Yeats. This is the Second thread whose title is the same of a previous classic; the other one is "Lolita," but the title is the only thing it has in common with Nabokov's Lolita.
By the bye ,there is no copyright law forbidding authors to use previous titles; still, I'd be wary of it, if only to avoid the obvious comparisons in which the newer work would most likely suffer.
But to the piece at hand -- I think it was a homage to the original "second coming" in the word play of "pale house" for "pale horse."

[blazeofglory]

Yes, I saw the title and immediately thought of Yeats. This is the Second thread whose title is the same of a previous classic; the other one is "Lolita," but the title is the only thing it has in common with Nabokov's Lolita.
By the bye ,there is no copyright law forbidding authors to use previous titles; still, I'd be wary of it, if only to avoid the obvious comparisons in which the newer work would most likely suffer.
But to the piece at hand -- I think it was a homage to the original "second coming" in the word play of "pale house" for "pale horse."

I like the title very much, yet the theme of the poem varies and it is indeed totally different. The writer is clean of any possible imitation.