Well well well how interesting
About to write about things stiffening
Like body parts selected
No body parts rejected
But be careful absolutely no roughening
We've been through
Roughening waves,
But we sat and never threw
Ourselves out of furious rave.
One day my heart
Will be glad that
We haven't yet fallen apart
And are not as sad as before.
Our time was like a boat...
No matter where we went,
Our time was well spent,
Even while we continuously float.
One day you'll be as happy
As you were in that rural place.
We'll together repair our broken vase.
You and I were inseparable friends...
So I wished it didn't end.
Our bond has been fragile
For quite some while.
I've been thinking of ridding it...
Though I know
I'll resolve it all somehow.
So I hope you will accept the flora
I shall give to you one day...
There’s a yearning within me
to flee to my place of peace.
I want to sit in solitude
on the side of a hill and
drink in nature’s performance.
Sitting there I would taste
the sweet breath of the mountains.
I would hear the wind
caressing the pine trees and
roughening the grass:
I would watch the untamed beasts,
from ants to coyotes,
going diligently
about their business of living;
I would be still
and feel the sun enveloping me
in warmth and light; and
my eyes would be drawn
to the intense blueness of the sky.
My mind would then begin
to experience the relief that comes
when thought is abandoned
and it is sufficient to exist.
o, the young night’s roughening
palms solid upon
the drowsy faces of niger-lads –
the slow current of the stream
of sleep drifting
the niger’s world –
& we went a-stupor like old troy
besieged by fury greece –
then lovely maidens
frightened us with looks
of beautyful truthings
of the false brevity
as old priests flew
at noon doomsday-dreaming
beyond the niger-maid’s
hidden chambers …
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