Archives for February 2007
February 28
28 February 2007 | | No Comments
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
- Rumi, untitled
February 27
27 February 2007 | | No Comments
Wild nights! Wild nights!Were I with thee,Wild nights should beOur luxury!
Futile the windsTo a heart in port-Done with the compass,Done with the chart.
Rowing in Eden!Ah! the sea!Might I but moorTonight in thee!
- Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights
February 26
26 February 2007 | | No Comments
The little river twittering in the twilight,
The wan, wondering look of the pale sky,
This is almost bliss.
And everything shut up and gone to sleep,
All the troubles and anxieties and pain
Gone under the twilight.
Only the twilight now, and the soft "Sh!" of the river
That will last forever.
And at last I know my love for you is […]
February 25
25 February 2007 | | No Comments
Take breath away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.
Do not take away the rose,
the lanceflower that you pluck,
the water that suddenly
bursts forth in your joy,
the sudden wave
of silver born in you.
My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when […]
February 24
24 February 2007 | | No Comments
The meadow and the mountain with desire
Gazed on each other, till a fierce unrest
Surged ‘neath the meadow’s seemingly calm breast,
And all the mountain’s fissures ran with fire.
A mighty river rolled between them there.
What could the mountain do but gaze and burn?
What could the meadow do but look and yearn,
And gem its bosom to conceal despair?
Their […]
February 23
23 February 2007 | | No Comments
As a perfume doth remainIn the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
Other thoughts may come and go, Other moments I may know That shall waft me, in their going, As a breath blown […]
February 22
22 February 2007 | | No Comments
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. Do not say "I love her for her smile her look her wayOf speaking gently, for a trick of thoughtThat falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of ease on such a day" For these things in […]
February 21
21 February 2007 | | No Comments
If someone let me kiss your honeyedeyes, Juventius, all I pleased,I would kiss them three hundred thousandtimes and never feel replete,not if our kissing’s harvest shouldoutnumber ripened ears of wheat.
- Catullus, Poem 48
February 20
20 February 2007 | | No Comments
To lie with you
in a field of grass
to lie there forever
and let time pass
Touching lightly
shoulder and thigh
Neither wanting more
Neither asking why
To have your whole
cool body’s length
along my own
to know the strength
of a secret tide
of longing seep
into our veins
go deep…deep
Dissolving flesh
and melting bone
Oh, to lie with you
alone
To feel your breast
rise with my sigh
To hold you mirrored
in […]
February 19
19 February 2007 | | No Comments
9Warmed by her hand and shadowed by her hair
As close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,
Whereof the articulate throbs accompany
The smooth, black stream that makes thy whiteness fair–
Sweet, fluttering sheet, even of her breath aware,–
Oh let thy silent song disclose to me
That soul wherewith her lips and eyes agree
Like […]