Nasturtiums

Asking neither names, nor historical periods, Clio draws wide circles of popular masses around square lonelinesses. What's all this noise about? A rich man’s circumference is longer than a pauper’s one! Down with circumference! Fortunately, the nasturtium-clad fence is high enough. The noise is getting louder. Is it just me, or do they want again to take away and to split everything they have already taken and split once? Hydrocarbons, how sweet the smell! Oh, heavenly music of coins clinking! Perhaps, but I’ve chosen the planets motion instead of the people's movement. Violent Paris isn’t worth a mass: having fenced my paradise garden, I admire the swarthiness of girl’s skin and the whiteness of English play. Neither the close lightnings of revolution, nor the accusative case of proclamations, nor uprising, nor mutiny 

nor bloody revolt 
shall disturb your honey sleep 
my dear nasturtiums
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Theraven Avatar
July 23, 2019 at 9:07 AM
Kurt, I like this poem. I don't know how hydrocarbons smell but I like how you brought then to my attention. +English plays. -Richard
Wolf Avatar
April 25, 2019 at 12:25 PM
Admirable choice! Here's to flower power, (i/o 'Power to the People,' which never results in anything but killing, blood, and then the same-old, same-old anyway)… and admirably expressed too! :) gw
Ravidas Avatar
April 25, 2019 at 5:38 PM
Another translation. Thank you, Wolf.
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