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Anticipation

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Today I have the strength
to succumb again
beneath the slow motion
of this stubborn pendulum
dark is the walk, and bright, and dark again...

Shades of obscure nature
and unrelated origin
pursue those distant sun rays
far away
and far from happiness

Their constancy disturbs
coming and going, undecided
intermittent, on and off and on...

You could think that they're clouds
in the high air
or on the fresh pasture
among the fallen leaves
hushing
and always in conglomeration
and always falling

I can face the decline
the autumn and the twilight
of a life now 
without promiscuous love, still red
a venerable touch, young again
The safe taking, the perfect giving
I can face it
                           
A life without every virtue, without every sin
Perhaps, not only water goes to the ocean
Perhaps, we never understood some ancient words

Today, I grab my death
its anticipation
to palpate it, to smell it, to digest it
long before the definitive dark
the moment when the soft sleep 
turns into odor, an effluvion 
from an unfulfilled soul
or what 's left



                      


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  1. Date: 1/16/2013 7:33:00 PM

    Are you dropping the soapmail in the shower on purpose!!?? Is this Rome!?

  1. Date: 1/16/2013 7:31:00 PM

    Ruben, wot happened to the soapmail mentioned in a soapmail-alert-comment, recently!? Did you drop the soapmail in the shower? Because I don't see it. Maybe it is covered in lather?

  1. Date: 1/3/2013 9:34:00 PM

    soup mail

  1. Date: 12/24/2012 9:09:00 PM

    Ruben, Once again, we find ourselves trapped in the Holiday Season. And, hear I am stopping by to say Hi and to wish you a Merry Christmas once again sincerely from my heart. Loving each moment I found comforting here on the soup. Thank you for any comment or support you have offered now or in the past. Love always & forever ~ PD

  1. Date: 10/21/2012 2:18:00 AM

    INTRICATE LINES EMINATING FROM YOUR GIFTED PEN RUBEN LUV .. DEEP AND HAUNTING LUV ..

  1. Date: 9/29/2012 11:49:00 PM

    Ruben, I get the impression that people are asking you why you aren't(more)new poems....so I will ask as well :P Why aren't you writing new poems? Is it possibly that you don't even mind not writing new poems -- no pressure, no drive?

  1. Date: 9/23/2012 10:20:00 PM

    DID you read the one, with James Earl Jones.. and Lady Gaga.. glad you like my top of the world ones... xox~pd... I think it is called "Battle of the sexes"... PD

  1. Date: 9/18/2012 11:34:00 AM

    Very profound. Must read again and agin. Each word has a new meaning when you combine them.

  1. Date: 9/8/2012 10:54:00 AM

    *.* Setting One's Sight Upon Heavenly & Not Earthly Things, My Dear Precious Ruben ˜ What Be Flesh Is Such & Spirit Is Eternal; Thus, Should There Be Tears Or Sorrow ? I Find No Sorrow, But Only This Joy Which Shall Be Borne Beyound The Furnace ˜ Smile, Did I Ever Tell You How Much I Love You My Dear Friend & Yesss, Amazing & Splendid Poem As Always ˜ My Love, Tristen *.*

  1. Date: 9/7/2012 1:31:00 AM

    Your an excellent writer/ poet Ruben. I love this one!!! Thanks for dropping by and reading my poem. :) hugs, leonora

  1. Date: 9/4/2012 5:33:00 AM

    Very powerful--especially that ending! It's as tho u took a scrabble board and assembled some deep meaning to words that were never meant to intersect!! Brilliant I tell ya, just brilliant! PD is starting a word revolution here. ps..if it satisfies the natives, I will post my pic on here when my gbaby is born soon...hahah

  1. Date: 9/2/2012 9:41:00 PM

    Did she tag you back? How cool! This is awesome. I especially love the word effluvion... actually those three lines. Tingles my brain stem! Hope you are having a good weekend. I finished the 2nd part and posted it. Also, I am half way finished the 3rd part, but I can barely keep my eyes open. My Hubby is back tomorrow, so I doubt I'll get a chance to write until Tuesday. I'll try to get part 3 up tues night. Thanks again for this challenge! Who's the next victim, oops I mean inspired poet? LOL.

  1. Date: 9/2/2012 11:49:00 AM

    One heck of a free verse write..I'd bet it's a winner! Soup mail! Light & Love

  1. Date: 8/31/2012 5:33:00 AM

    You have done a great job with these words, Ruben. - Well and deep written...like it. - oxox big hug to you // Anne-Lise :)

  1. Date: 8/31/2012 1:20:00 AM

    great poetry Rubes!Pd has done a fantastic job with her words!take care and have a great weekend.

  1. Date: 8/30/2012 11:42:00 PM

    I like the way you used your words... always~ PD

  1. Date: 8/30/2012 11:39:00 PM

    That is why i don't like writing anymore. Every poem, i write is long..LOL..I'm the kind of poet, i can not stop.. It does not feel right if I write something small. It feels like a poet sin>>LOL<< anyways, everything I write is to deep. I want to write stuff poets really understand. I know many read my work, and love what I do. I bet sometimes poets are afraid to read what I'm really saying. My writers block is an excuse..LOL~I scare my self with my own writes. You've seen how deep I go. Oops

  1. Date: 8/30/2012 11:32:00 PM

    Ruben, I like the fresh pasture, image you give, very epic, and creative. I gave my pasture a dark walk way with no coming back. I went to deep with my poem. Ruben, I will tell you my problem. I do not write as much. It is not writers block. I fell in to a pit, called, why! why! Why, am I writing poems poets do not understand. Nathan, says, I need to get out of my metaphor form. I tell him that is what makes me ME! After he told me that..I looked at my work, and told myself he is right.

  1. Date: 8/30/2012 11:30:00 PM

    You're good...witty poet. I like this Ruben!

  1. Date: 8/30/2012 11:03:00 PM

    A depressingly well-written poem, Ruben. Contemplatively....depressing. Good stuff here! "A life without every virtue, without every sin / Perhaps, not only water goes to the sea / Perhaps, we never understood some ancient words."