A couple of bodies
to find each other
like two apples
on an apple tree
From which side
would they get the light
to which side
would they cast
their shaddows
Two longing sighs
to exchange
like two dragon-flies
in concentric waves
Into what depths
would they fall
from which root
would they draw
their sauce
Last edited by free; 12-16-2009 at 04:49 AM.
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“All" human beings "by nature desire to know.” ― Aristotle
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
free,
I like this very much,
but I am a sucker
for a tree.
Hack
"Remember, we are all in this alone." - Lilly Tomlin
Thanks for your comment. As for the tree, since there is a tree of knowledge, I suppose there must be a tree of love, too. Only, I don't know where is it and how does it look. That's what my poem is trying to suggest.
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“All" human beings "by nature desire to know.” ― Aristotle
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
This is a very beautiful poem and a good analogy of love. In fact love is like that deep down though from the outside it is really hard to see that part of it. The beauty of the poem unsurpassed and every line is suffused with something palatable to us. It is light but makes us contemplate for it speaks of the universals we are incapable of visualizing for our ken is layered and we must remove the crusts of things
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
The tree of love is as if within the tree of life... so when you write:
Into what depths
would they fall
from which root
would they draw
their sauce
it feels to me love thrives on the sap of the tree of life...
thank you for your poem...
Your poem is growing on me. I read it the first time yesterday rather cursorily, and then I went back and read it again last evening, and now this morning. After the second reading, I began to see and understand and appreciate it, and with the third reading even more. To use an old cliche, there is much more here than meets the eye. I'm beginning to realize that this poem has many layers.
I also enjoyed it. It's sweet.
Thank you all for your comments. I am so happy that the poem elicited such wise thoughts in you. I think that poetry is supposed to function like that: with its poetic instruments (appearing simple at the first sight) to arouse the contemplative part of a human being. Thanks a lot for proving it.
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“All" human beings "by nature desire to know.” ― Aristotle
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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