Poem

[firecat]

Seen in dawnd's journal

"Pick a poem you like. Your favourite, if you have a favourite, or one you think should be better known and more widely appreciated."



I don't have a single favorite poem.

Here's one I wrote:

Somewhere there was a world
where I lay down in your arms
and we watched the dawn.


And here's one Rumi wrote:


Thirst drove me down to the water
Where I drank the moon's reflection.
Now I am a lion staring up totally
lost in love with the thing itself.
Don't ask questions about longing.
Look in my face.

-- Rumi, from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Just as the hyacinth
up in the mountains
is trampled underfoot by shepherds
who spurn what they find commonplace,
you are bruised and neglected now
but soon you will grow back
stronger than you were before
to be discovered by someone
who will gaze in awe at your beauty.

That's a Sappho fragment I finished. It seemed to go with the other things here.

[firecat]

Jo! You have a LiveJournal! *bounce

And yes, it goes very well. I'm going to go point teal7 at it.