Thursday, June 09, 2005

Originally I planned to post one poem that I like from the poetry page I found per day, but I found 3 poems by the same poet that I like very much. I don't mean to be greedy and indulge, but I /am/ going for a 3 day camp. I suppose this could tide you over that time.

So here they are, poems by Manuel Altolaguirre.

The Flight
When seeing where you do escape
Blissful I would change
The interior paths of your soul
For those of cheerful fields.

If your flight would be
Over green roads
And on the foams,
And you could be seen in my eyes,
I would know how to follow you.

Not toward inside you,
Where you go into,
When wanting to follow you
I crash against the walls of your body.

Not toward inside you,
Because we are not:
You, pale, hidden,
Me as waiting in front of a door,
Before your cold chest.

I like this one because it reminds me of something I previously wrote: But I would never chase you down the long narrow alleyways of your mind.

Go Away
My dream has no place
For you to live inside. There is no place.
Everything is a dream. You would disappear.
Go and live far away,
You that are alive. If my thoughts were
Of iron or stone
You would stay here.

But they are fire and clouds,
What the world was in the beginning,
When nobody on it was alive.
You cannot live here. There is no place.
My dreams would burn you.

This poem suits my sentiments, at certain times.

I Just Know That I Live In Me
I just know that I live in me
And I'll never know who I am,
I don't know where I'm going
Or how long will I stay here.
Dressed of life or death,
Or naked without dying
Behind the walls of this castle
That is my life.
Or free flying the sepulchral
Limits of the sky
Tearing grey veils,
Unknowing my future, my ends.
I don't know what prison will hold me
Neither what freedom I am looking for
Nor into what river my life will run
When I die.

Again, all poems are from here: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/yourpage/2altolaguirre.html

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