Saturday, October 30, 2010

The analytical lover


The analytical lover


This screen
that separates us,
what does it consist of?

How does it prevent me
from taking in your words
and fit them in my mouth?

How does it stop me
from holding the joyous surges
of your body
in my own?

This screen
that separates us,
how does it work its division?

How does it catch your thoughts
and strain through to me
so little of what you think?

I see you move
behind the screen,
and I yearn
to put my hand in yours.

I hear the cadence of your voice,
the timbre of your words,
the lilt of your speech;
but most of you
is screened out.

De Waal Venter

Friday, October 29, 2010

Haiku my heart: Snow White

Dedicated to my beautiful, perfect baby girl, still born on the 29th October 1980



   Perfected in my womb
      the beginning, the end
 snow white coffin

Riette

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Mystifying

Image: Orlando Oct 2010 full moon taken by Roland Pozo

For the sake of a single poem, 
you must see many cities, 
many people and things, 
you must understand animals, 
must feel how birds fly, 
and know the gesture which small flowers 
make when they open in the morning.
Rainer Maria Rilke,

Saturday, October 23, 2010

La Valse

 
La Valse - Camille Laudel
 
"Andante, Andante"

Take it easy with me, please
Touch me gently like a summer evening breeze
Take your time, make it slow
Andante, Andante
Just let the feeling grow

Make your fingers soft and light
Let your body be the velvet of the night
Touch my soul, you know how
Andante, Andante
Go slowly with me now

I'm your music
(I am your music and I am your song)
I'm your song
(I am your music and I am your song)
Play me time and time again and make me strong
(Play me again 'cause you're making me strong)
Make me sing, make me sound
(You make me sing and you make me...)
Andante, Andante
Tread lightly on my ground
Andante, Andante
Oh please don't let me down

There's a shimmer in your eyes
Like the feeling of a thousand butterflies
Please don't talk, go on, play
Andante, Andante
And let me float away

I'm your music
(I am your music and I am your song)
I'm your song
(I am your music and I am your song)
Play me time and time again and make me strong
(Play me again 'cause you're making me strong)
Make me sing, make me sound
(You make me sing and you make me...)
Andante, Andante
Tread lightly on my ground
Andante, Andante
Oh please don't let me down

Make me sing, make me sound
(You make me sing and you make me...)
Andante, Andante
Tread lightly on my ground
Andante, Andante
Oh please don't let me down
Andante, Andante
Oh please don't let me down...

Friday, October 15, 2010

Who art thee



Who, but who art thee?
Stop following, stop bothering me
and let me, just let me be!

Riette

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Friday, October 8, 2010

Haiku my heart: Behind




Behind these two windows is my mind
Two women live there - I find
one is crazy, the other one kind 

Riette