The Absence

Blog Entry, Nov 6, '07 4:43 PM

The Absence

I speak to you across cities
I speak to you across plains

My mouth is upon your pillow

Both faces of the walls come meeting
My voice discovering you

I speak to you of eternity

O cities memories of cities
Cities wrapped in our desires
Cities come early cities come lately
Cities strong and cities secret
Plundered of their master's builders
All their thinkers all their ghosts

Fields pattern of emerald
Bright living surviving
The harvest of the sky over our earth
Feeds my voice I dream and weep
I laugh and dream among the flames
Among the clusters of the sun

And over my body your body spreads
The sheet of it's bright mirror.

Paul Eluard

Sentimental Tendencies

Jun 4, '09 2:04 AM

I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips

City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam

Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce

Knowing whether I have fellow creatures

Ring Of Peace-Paul Éluard

Photo by Ed Ruscha

Faithless - Insomnia

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Lovely and Lifelike

Apr 8, '09 8:59 AM

A face at the end of the day

A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of fount in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all forgotten faces

Paul Eluard