Thursday, January 31, 2019
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
~
nothing is dead
and all sings,
rises and sinks,
changes and melts.
do not evade pain,
it means not to flower,
said the rose.
listen to the sea
in me, said she.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Händel , Prophetic raptures, Karina Gauvin
minimalist music can be fascinating, doesn't mean i must like everything, no obsessions
please for my life -and not minimizing me more than necessary, why, there is such a wide space.....
Monday, January 28, 2019
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Good-Night, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.
How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood --
Then it will be -- good night.
To hearts which near each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good-night.
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.
How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood --
Then it will be -- good night.
To hearts which near each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good-night.
Lewis Carroll, quote
Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”
Lewis Carroll, quote
'If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!'
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, quote
Alice:
'How long is forever?'
White Rabbit:
'Sometimes, just one second.'
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
'How long is forever?'
White Rabbit:
'Sometimes, just one second.'
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Why Your Aikido Will Fail on the Street -The Truth
very interesting discussions below video...
yes, if you can run, run-
what if there are two other guys coming from the side and behind?
maybe with knives?
if i can run, i run-at times i just stood there and laughed...
but i am not a martial arts expert, so when cornered and hit
i won't waste my time thinking on the law-
i won't hesitate to possibly mutilate or kill, it is self defence.
Jefferson Airplane , White Rabbit (HQ)
Hi..Lewis Carroll...hi..Alice..
'I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."
Eddie Cochran , C'mon everybody
after these 3 posts, listening, i'd really wish to dance-else i must get a little drunk,
was not intended
Ursula K. LeGuin, on suffering, on pain
'Suffering is a misunderstanding.
[…]
It exists… It’s real. I can call it a misunderstanding, but I can’t pretend that it doesn’t exist, or will ever cease to exist. Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it’s right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of existence. We can’t prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. All of us here are going to know grief; if we live fifty years, we’ll have known pain for fifty years… And yet, I wonder if it isn’t all a misunderstanding — this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain… If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could… get through it, go beyond it. There is something beyond it. It’s the self that suffers, and there’s a place where the self—ceases. I don’t know how to say it. But I believe that the reality — the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don’t in comfort and happiness — that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.'
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'It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.'
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'If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home… Fulfillment… is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal… It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell… The thing about working with time, instead of against it, …is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.'
(Shevek)
Hermann Hesse, to mature
'When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god… A man who has recognized his destiny never tries to change it. The endeavor to change destiny is a childish pursuit that makes men quarrel and kill one another… All sorrow, poison, and death are alien, imposed destiny. But every true act, everything that is good and joyful and fruitful on earth, is lived destiny, destiny that has become self.'
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"Might your bitter pain not be the voice of destiny, might that voice not become sweet once you understand it?
[…]
Action and suffering, which together make up our lives, are a whole; they are one. A child suffers its begetting, it suffers its birth, its weaning; it suffers here and suffers there until in the end it suffers death. But all the good in a man, for which he is praised or loved, is merely good suffering, the right kind, the living kind of suffering, a suffering to the full. The ability to suffer well is more than half of life — indeed, it is all life. Birth is suffering, growth is suffering, the seed suffers the earth, the root suffers the rain, the bud suffers its flowering.
In the same way, my friends, man suffers destiny. Destiny is earth, it is rain and growth. Destiny hurts."
.......
'It is hard to learn to suffer. Women succeed more often and more nobly than men. Learn from them! Learn to listen when the voice of life speaks! Learn to look when the sun of destiny plays with your shadows! Learn to respect life! Learn to respect yourselves! From suffering springs strength.'
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'Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.'
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'You were made to be yourselves. You were made to enrich the world with a sound, a tone, a shadow.
[…]
In each one of you there is a hidden being, still in the deep sleep of childhood. Bring it to life! In each one of you there is a call, a will, an impulse of nature, an impulse toward the future, the new, the higher. Let it mature, let it resound, nurture it! Your future is not this or that; it is not money or power, it is not wisdom or success at your trade — your future, your hard dangerous path is this: to mature and to find God in yourselves.'
David Whyte, Consolations, on love and on naming
'Naming love too early is a beautiful but harrowing human difficulty. Most of our heartbreak comes from attempting to name who or what we love and the way we love, too early in the vulnerable journey of discovery.
We can never know in the beginning, in giving ourselves to a person, to a work, to a marriage or to a cause, exactly what kind of love we are involved with. When we demand a certain specific kind of reciprocation before the revelation has flowered completely we find ourselves disappointed and bereaved and in that grief may miss the particular form of love that is actually possible but that did not meet our initial and too specific expectations. Feeling bereft we take our identity as one who is disappointed in love, our almost proud disappointment preventing us from seeing the lack of reciprocation from the person or the situation as simply a difficult invitation into a deeper and as yet unrecognizable form of affection.'
'We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all.'
SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD , Denise Levertov
SOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD
by Denise Levertov
by Denise Levertov
We live our lives of human passions,
cruelties, dreams, concepts,
crimes and the exercise of virtue
in and beside a world devoid
of our preoccupations, free
from apprehension—though affected,
certainly, by our actions. A world
parallel to our own though overlapping.
We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly
admitting ourselves to be “Nature” too.
Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions,
our self-concerns, because we drift for a minute,
an hour even, of pure (almost pure)
response to that insouciant life:
cloud, bird, fox, the flow of light, the dancing
pilgrimage of water, vast stillness
of spellbound ephemerae on a lit windowpane,
animal voices, mineral hum, wind
conversing with rain, ocean with rock, stuttering
of fire to coal—then something tethered
in us, hobbled like a donkey on its patch
of gnawed grass and thistles, breaks free.
No one discovers
just where we’ve been, when we’re caught up again
into our own sphere (where we must
return, indeed, to evolve our destinies)
—but we have changed, a little.
cruelties, dreams, concepts,
crimes and the exercise of virtue
in and beside a world devoid
of our preoccupations, free
from apprehension—though affected,
certainly, by our actions. A world
parallel to our own though overlapping.
We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly
admitting ourselves to be “Nature” too.
Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions,
our self-concerns, because we drift for a minute,
an hour even, of pure (almost pure)
response to that insouciant life:
cloud, bird, fox, the flow of light, the dancing
pilgrimage of water, vast stillness
of spellbound ephemerae on a lit windowpane,
animal voices, mineral hum, wind
conversing with rain, ocean with rock, stuttering
of fire to coal—then something tethered
in us, hobbled like a donkey on its patch
of gnawed grass and thistles, breaks free.
No one discovers
just where we’ve been, when we’re caught up again
into our own sphere (where we must
return, indeed, to evolve our destinies)
—but we have changed, a little.
THE WORLD BELOW THE BRINE , Walt Whitman
THE WORLD BELOW THE BRINE
by Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman
The world below the brine,
Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,
Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the
swimmers,
Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,
Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as
so many do,
The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this
sphere,
The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,
Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the
swimmers,
Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,
Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as
so many do,
The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this
sphere,
The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Joep Franssens , Harmony of the Spheres
stolen..cannot comment on that page--but beautiful
had only heard a small part before
Friday, January 25, 2019
Der Struwwelpeter (1955)
(see from 13.38...had to hear this as a child too often, :-).
shit stories anyway, cruel..
She tells her love while half asleep , Robert Graves
She tells her love while half asleep
by Robert Graves
She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth turns in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
by Robert Graves
She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth turns in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
You ask me, Li Bai
You ask me, why do i dwell in these green mountains.,
but i smile without a reply, only an easy mind.
The river flows away silently, bearing the fallen peach petals,
here is another world, but not the world of men.
but i smile without a reply, only an easy mind.
The river flows away silently, bearing the fallen peach petals,
here is another world, but not the world of men.
Li Bai, Hard Road
HARD ROAD
In my golden cup, pure wine worth ten thousand a pint;
on a jade plate, fine food worth ten thousand coins.
I stop drinking and put down my chopsticks, unable to eat,
draw my sword to dance, look anxiously in all directions.
I want to cross the Yellow River, but ice blocks my way;
I want to climb Mount Taihang, but snow fills the sky.
In idleness I drop a hook into the azure creek,
suddenly I’m back in my boat, dreaming of distant places.
on a jade plate, fine food worth ten thousand coins.
I stop drinking and put down my chopsticks, unable to eat,
draw my sword to dance, look anxiously in all directions.
I want to cross the Yellow River, but ice blocks my way;
I want to climb Mount Taihang, but snow fills the sky.
In idleness I drop a hook into the azure creek,
suddenly I’m back in my boat, dreaming of distant places.
Traveling is hard!
Traveling is hard!
So many forks in the road–
which one to take?
Traveling is hard!
So many forks in the road–
which one to take?
A great enterprise must find the right moment;
I hoist my sail into the clouds and cross the mighty ocean.
I hoist my sail into the clouds and cross the mighty ocean.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The Summer Day, Mary Oliver
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
this grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
this grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
The Journey, Mary Oliver
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice – - -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice – - -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations – - -
though their melancholy
was terrible.It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations – - -
though their melancholy
was terrible.It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do – - – determined to save
the only life you could save
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do – - – determined to save
the only life you could save
The Swan, Mary Oliver
The Swan
Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music – like the rain pelting the trees – like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds -
A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music – like the rain pelting the trees – like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds -
A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?
(source of photo: internet)
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Not anyone who says, Mary Oliver
NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS
Not anyone who says, "I'm going to be
careful and smart in matters of love,"
who says, "I'm going to choose slowly,"
but only those lovers who didn't choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable —
only those know what I'm talking about
in this talking about love.
careful and smart in matters of love,"
who says, "I'm going to choose slowly,"
but only those lovers who didn't choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable —
only those know what I'm talking about
in this talking about love.
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
Friday, January 18, 2019
When death comes,Mary Oliver
When Death Comes
by Mary Oliver, Oct 03, 2006
(September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019)
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
stolen but i liked it before...
by Mary Oliver, Oct 03, 2006
(September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019)
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
stolen but i liked it before...
Mali. Taylor, How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog
First of all, it’s a big responsibility,
especially in a city like New York.
So think long and hard before deciding on love.
On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
when you’re walking down the street late at night
and you have a leash on love
ain’t no one going to mess with you.
Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.
Who knows what love could do in its own defense?
especially in a city like New York.
So think long and hard before deciding on love.
On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
when you’re walking down the street late at night
and you have a leash on love
ain’t no one going to mess with you.
Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.
Who knows what love could do in its own defense?
On cold winter nights, love is warm.
It lies between you and lives and breathes
and makes funny noises.
Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.
It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.
It lies between you and lives and breathes
and makes funny noises.
Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.
It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.
Love doesn’t like being left alone for long.
But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
but you can never be mad at love for long.
But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
but you can never be mad at love for long.
Is love good all the time? No! No!
Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.
Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.
Love makes messes.
Love leaves you little surprises here and there.
Love needs lots of cleaning up after.
Sometimes you just want to get love fixed.
Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper
and swat love on the nose,
not so much to cause pain,
just to let love know Don’t you ever do that again!
Love leaves you little surprises here and there.
Love needs lots of cleaning up after.
Sometimes you just want to get love fixed.
Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper
and swat love on the nose,
not so much to cause pain,
just to let love know Don’t you ever do that again!
Sometimes love just wants to go out for a nice long walk.
Because love loves exercise. It will run you around the block
and leave you panting, breathless. Pull you in different directions
at once, or wind itself around and around you
until you’re all wound up and you cannot move.
Because love loves exercise. It will run you around the block
and leave you panting, breathless. Pull you in different directions
at once, or wind itself around and around you
until you’re all wound up and you cannot move.
But love makes you meet people wherever you go.
People who have nothing in common but love
stop and talk to each other on the street.
People who have nothing in common but love
stop and talk to each other on the street.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.
Taylor Mali
Mali. Taylor. “How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog.”
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Big Will & The Bluesmen , Hard Times
..o..poor boy.. i get in the mornings..blues..and then i try to grin at me..
and fill with a bit of sun from the other side...:-)
Lonesome Highway, Shane MacGowan & The Popes
As I wondered down the long lonesome highway
I meet other people on the way
The broken hearted lovers who've been left along the by-way
Living by night and hiding from the day
The people I meet as I go on my way
They all have a story to tell
How they once had a lover who left them on the by-way
To wonder this lonely hell
And if you know, don't let me go
And if you know, don't let me go
And if you know, don't let me go
I love you so
I love you so
So as I carry on down the long lonesome highway
I meet other people on the way
More broken hearted lovers who've been left along the by-way
Living by night and hiding from the day
And if you know, don't let me go
And if you know, don't let me go
And if you know, don't let me go
Cause I love you so
I love you so
Poema El Espejo De Agua . Vicente Huidobro
Poema El Espejo De Agua
Vicente Huidobro
Mi espejo, corriente por las noches,
Se hace arroyo y se aleja de mi cuarto.
Se hace arroyo y se aleja de mi cuarto.
Mi espejo, más profundo que el orbe
Donde todos los cisnes se ahogaron.
Donde todos los cisnes se ahogaron.
Es un estanque verde en la muralla
Y en medio duerme tu desnudez anclada.
Y en medio duerme tu desnudez anclada.
Sobre sus olas, bajo cielos sonámbulos,
Mis ensueños se alejan como barcos.
Mis ensueños se alejan como barcos.
De pie en la popa siempre me veréis cantando.
Una rosa secreta se hincha en mi pecho
Y un ruiseñor ebrio aletea en mi dedo.
Una rosa secreta se hincha en mi pecho
Y un ruiseñor ebrio aletea en mi dedo.
Poema Balada De Lo Que No Vuelve, Vicente Huidobro
Poema Balada De Lo Que No Vuelve
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente Huidobro
Venía hacia mí por la sonrisa
Por el camino de su gracia
Y cambiaba las horas del día
El cielo de la noche se convertía en el cielo del amanecer
El mar era un árbol frondoso lleno de pájaros
Las flores daban campanadas de alegría
Y mi corazón se ponía a perfumar enloquecido
Por el camino de su gracia
Y cambiaba las horas del día
El cielo de la noche se convertía en el cielo del amanecer
El mar era un árbol frondoso lleno de pájaros
Las flores daban campanadas de alegría
Y mi corazón se ponía a perfumar enloquecido
Van andando los días a lo largo del año
¿En dónde estás?
Me crece la mirada
Se me alargan las manos
En vano la soledad abre sus puertas
Y el silencio se llena de tus pasos de antaño
Me crece el corazón
Se me alargan los ojos
Y quisiera pedir otros ojos
Para ponerlos allí donde terminan los míos
¿En dónde estás ahora?
¿Qué sitio del mundo se está haciendo tibio con tu presencia?
Me crece el corazón como una esponja
O como esos corales que van a formar islas
Es inútil mirar los astros
O interrogar las piedras encanecidas
Es inútil mirar ese árbol que te dijo adiós el último
Y te saludará el primero a tu regreso
Eres sustancia de lejanía
Y no hay remedio
Andan los días en tu busca
A qué seguir por todas partes la huella de sus pasos
El tiempo canta dulcemente
Y si mis ojos os dicen
Cuánta vida he vivido y cuánta muerte he muerto
Ellos podrían también deciros
Cuánta vida he muerto y cuánta muerte he vivido
¿En dónde estás?
Me crece la mirada
Se me alargan las manos
En vano la soledad abre sus puertas
Y el silencio se llena de tus pasos de antaño
Me crece el corazón
Se me alargan los ojos
Y quisiera pedir otros ojos
Para ponerlos allí donde terminan los míos
¿En dónde estás ahora?
¿Qué sitio del mundo se está haciendo tibio con tu presencia?
Me crece el corazón como una esponja
O como esos corales que van a formar islas
Es inútil mirar los astros
O interrogar las piedras encanecidas
Es inútil mirar ese árbol que te dijo adiós el último
Y te saludará el primero a tu regreso
Eres sustancia de lejanía
Y no hay remedio
Andan los días en tu busca
A qué seguir por todas partes la huella de sus pasos
El tiempo canta dulcemente
Y si mis ojos os dicen
Cuánta vida he vivido y cuánta muerte he muerto
Ellos podrían también deciros
Cuánta vida he muerto y cuánta muerte he vivido
¡Oh mis fantasmas! ¡Oh mis queridos espectros!
La noche ha dejado noche en mis cabellos
¿En dónde estuve? ¿Por dónde he andado?
¿Pero era ausencia aquélla o era mayor presencia?
La noche ha dejado noche en mis cabellos
¿En dónde estuve? ¿Por dónde he andado?
¿Pero era ausencia aquélla o era mayor presencia?
Cuando las piedras oyen mi paso
Sienten una ternura que les ensancha el alma
Se hacen señas furtivas y hablan bajo:
Allí se acerca el buen amigo
El hombre de las distancias
Que viene fatigado de tanta muerte al hombro
De tanta vida en el pecho
Y busca donde pasar la noche
Sienten una ternura que les ensancha el alma
Se hacen señas furtivas y hablan bajo:
Allí se acerca el buen amigo
El hombre de las distancias
Que viene fatigado de tanta muerte al hombro
De tanta vida en el pecho
Y busca donde pasar la noche
Heme aquí ante vuestros limpios ojos
Heme aquí vestido de lejanías
Atrás quedaron los negros nubarrones
Los años de tinieblas en el antro olvidado
Traigo un alma lavada por el fuego
Vosotros me llamáis sin saber a quién llamáis
Traigo un cristal sin sombra un corazón que no decae
La imagen de la nada y un rostro que sonríe
Traigo un amor muy parecido al universo
La Poesía me despejó el camino
Ya no hay banalidades en mi vida
¿Quién guió mis pasos de modo tan certero?
Heme aquí vestido de lejanías
Atrás quedaron los negros nubarrones
Los años de tinieblas en el antro olvidado
Traigo un alma lavada por el fuego
Vosotros me llamáis sin saber a quién llamáis
Traigo un cristal sin sombra un corazón que no decae
La imagen de la nada y un rostro que sonríe
Traigo un amor muy parecido al universo
La Poesía me despejó el camino
Ya no hay banalidades en mi vida
¿Quién guió mis pasos de modo tan certero?
Mis ojos dicen a aquellos que cayeron
Disparad contra mí vuestros dardos
Vengad en mí vuestras angustias
Vengad en mí vuestros fracasos
Yo soy invulnerable
He tomado mi sitio en el cielo como el silencio
Disparad contra mí vuestros dardos
Vengad en mí vuestras angustias
Vengad en mí vuestros fracasos
Yo soy invulnerable
He tomado mi sitio en el cielo como el silencio
Los siglos de la tierra me caen en los brazos
Yo soy amigos el viajero sin fin
Las alas de la enorme aventura
Batían entre inviernos y veranos
Mirad cómo suben estrellas en mi alma
Desde que he expulsado las serpientes del tiempo oscurecido
Yo soy amigos el viajero sin fin
Las alas de la enorme aventura
Batían entre inviernos y veranos
Mirad cómo suben estrellas en mi alma
Desde que he expulsado las serpientes del tiempo oscurecido
¿Cómo podremos entendernos?
Heme aquí de regreso de donde no se vuelve
Compasión de las olas y piedad de los astros
¡Cuánto tiempo perdido! Este es el hombre de las lejanías
El que daba vuelta las páginas de los muertos
Sin tiempo sin espacio sin corazón sin sangre
El que andaba de un lado para otro
Desesperado y solo en las tinieblas
Solo en el vacío
Como un perro que ladra hacia el fondo de un abismo
Heme aquí de regreso de donde no se vuelve
Compasión de las olas y piedad de los astros
¡Cuánto tiempo perdido! Este es el hombre de las lejanías
El que daba vuelta las páginas de los muertos
Sin tiempo sin espacio sin corazón sin sangre
El que andaba de un lado para otro
Desesperado y solo en las tinieblas
Solo en el vacío
Como un perro que ladra hacia el fondo de un abismo
¡Oh vosotros! ¡Oh mis buenos amigos!
Los que habéis tocado mis manos
¿Qué habéis tocado?
Y vosotros que habéis escuchado mi voz
¿Qué habéis escuchado?
Y los que habéis contemplado mis ojos
¿Qué habéis contemplado?
Los que habéis tocado mis manos
¿Qué habéis tocado?
Y vosotros que habéis escuchado mi voz
¿Qué habéis escuchado?
Y los que habéis contemplado mis ojos
¿Qué habéis contemplado?
Lo he perdido todo y todo lo he ganado
Y ni siquiera pido
La parte de la vida que me corresponde
Ni montañas de fuego ni mares cultivados
Es tanto más lo que he ganado que lo que he perdido
Así es el viaje al fin del mundo
Y ésta es la corona de sangre de la gran experiencia
La corona regalo de mi estrella
¿En dónde estuve en dónde estoy?
Y ni siquiera pido
La parte de la vida que me corresponde
Ni montañas de fuego ni mares cultivados
Es tanto más lo que he ganado que lo que he perdido
Así es el viaje al fin del mundo
Y ésta es la corona de sangre de la gran experiencia
La corona regalo de mi estrella
¿En dónde estuve en dónde estoy?
Los árboles lloran un pájaro canta inconsolable
Decid ¿quién es el muerto?
El viento me solloza
¡Qué inquietudes me has dado!
Algunas flores exclaman
¿Estás vivo aún?
¿Quién es el muerto entonces?
Las aguas gimen tristemente
¿Quién ha muerto en estas tierras?
Ahora sé lo que soy y lo que era
Conozco la distancia que va del hombre a la verdad
Conozco la palabra que aman los muertos
Este es el que ha llorado el mundo el que ha llorado resplandores
Decid ¿quién es el muerto?
El viento me solloza
¡Qué inquietudes me has dado!
Algunas flores exclaman
¿Estás vivo aún?
¿Quién es el muerto entonces?
Las aguas gimen tristemente
¿Quién ha muerto en estas tierras?
Ahora sé lo que soy y lo que era
Conozco la distancia que va del hombre a la verdad
Conozco la palabra que aman los muertos
Este es el que ha llorado el mundo el que ha llorado resplandores
Las lágrimas se hinchan se dilatan
Y empiezan a girar sobre su eje
Heme aquí ante vosotros
Cómo podremos entendernos Cómo saber lo que decimos
Hay tantos muertos que me llaman
Allí donde la tierra pierde su ruido
Allí donde me esperan mis queridos fantasmas
Mis queridos espectros
Mirad me os amo tanto pero soy extranjero
¿Quién salió de su tierra
Sin saber el hondor de su aventura?
Al desplegar las alas
El mismo no sabía qué vuelo era su vuelo
Y empiezan a girar sobre su eje
Heme aquí ante vosotros
Cómo podremos entendernos Cómo saber lo que decimos
Hay tantos muertos que me llaman
Allí donde la tierra pierde su ruido
Allí donde me esperan mis queridos fantasmas
Mis queridos espectros
Mirad me os amo tanto pero soy extranjero
¿Quién salió de su tierra
Sin saber el hondor de su aventura?
Al desplegar las alas
El mismo no sabía qué vuelo era su vuelo
Vuestro tiempo y vuestro espacio
No son mi espacio ni mi tiempo
¿Quién es el extranjero? ¿Reconocéis su andar?
Es el que vuelve con un sabor de eternidad en la garganta
Con un olor de olvido en los cabellos
Con un sonar de venas misteriosas
Es este que está llorando el universo
Que sobrepasó la muerte y el rumor de la selva secreta
Soy impalpable ahora como ciertas semillas
Que el viento mismo que las lleva no las siente
Oh Poesía nuestro reino empieza
No son mi espacio ni mi tiempo
¿Quién es el extranjero? ¿Reconocéis su andar?
Es el que vuelve con un sabor de eternidad en la garganta
Con un olor de olvido en los cabellos
Con un sonar de venas misteriosas
Es este que está llorando el universo
Que sobrepasó la muerte y el rumor de la selva secreta
Soy impalpable ahora como ciertas semillas
Que el viento mismo que las lleva no las siente
Oh Poesía nuestro reino empieza
Este es aquel que durmió muchas veces
Allí donde hay que estar alerta
Donde las rocas prohíben la palabra
Allí donde se confunde la muerte con el canto del mar
Ahora vengo a saber que fui a buscar las llaves
He aquí las llaves
¿Quién las había perdido?
¿Cuánto tiempo ha que se perdieron?
Nadie encontró las llaves perdidas en el tiempo y en las brumas
¡Cuántos siglos perdidas!
Allí donde hay que estar alerta
Donde las rocas prohíben la palabra
Allí donde se confunde la muerte con el canto del mar
Ahora vengo a saber que fui a buscar las llaves
He aquí las llaves
¿Quién las había perdido?
¿Cuánto tiempo ha que se perdieron?
Nadie encontró las llaves perdidas en el tiempo y en las brumas
¡Cuántos siglos perdidas!
Al fondo de las tumbas
Al fondo de los mares
Al fondo del murmullo de los vientos
Al fondo del silencio
He aquí los signos
¡Cuánto tiempo olvidados!
Pero entonces amigo ¿qué vas a decirnos?
¿Quién ha de comprenderte? ¿De dónde vienes?
¿En dónde estabas? ¿En qué alturas en qué profundidades?
Andaba por la Historia del brazo con la muerte
Oh hermano nada voy a decirte
Cuando hayas tocado lo que nadie puede tocar
Más que el árbol te gustará callar
Al fondo de los mares
Al fondo del murmullo de los vientos
Al fondo del silencio
He aquí los signos
¡Cuánto tiempo olvidados!
Pero entonces amigo ¿qué vas a decirnos?
¿Quién ha de comprenderte? ¿De dónde vienes?
¿En dónde estabas? ¿En qué alturas en qué profundidades?
Andaba por la Historia del brazo con la muerte
Oh hermano nada voy a decirte
Cuando hayas tocado lo que nadie puede tocar
Más que el árbol te gustará callar
Poema Estrella Hija De Estrella , Vicente Huidobro
Poema Estrella Hija De Estrella
Vicente Huidobro
Había signos en el aire
Había presagios en el cielo
Tenía que brotar la gracia de repente
Con sus pasos de gloria
Con todos sus gérmenes sagrados
Con su aliento de vida o muerte
Había presagios en el cielo
Tenía que brotar la gracia de repente
Con sus pasos de gloria
Con todos sus gérmenes sagrados
Con su aliento de vida o muerte
Venía la belleza de quién sabe donde
Venía hacía mis ojos
Con su andar de planeta seguro de su tiempo…
Es la ley misteriosa que de pronto se encarna
Y se hace realidad en un instante.
Venía hacía mis ojos
Con su andar de planeta seguro de su tiempo…
Es la ley misteriosa que de pronto se encarna
Y se hace realidad en un instante.
El azar se presenta
Con todas sus fuerzas invencibles
El azar con sus constelaciones desatadas
Que súbito se anudan
Para cumplir con un destino en las piedras lentas
El aire vibra de los sonidos de la vieja flauta
Una dulce amistad ha nacido en el mundo
Acaso un gran peligro se yergue de su noche
Con todas sus fuerzas invencibles
El azar con sus constelaciones desatadas
Que súbito se anudan
Para cumplir con un destino en las piedras lentas
El aire vibra de los sonidos de la vieja flauta
Una dulce amistad ha nacido en el mundo
Acaso un gran peligro se yergue de su noche
La voz de un hombre dice Estrella
Y tiembla como una estrella
El viento pasa y el azul amado
Deja caer su aroma
Para ungir las cabezas señaladas.
Y tiembla como una estrella
El viento pasa y el azul amado
Deja caer su aroma
Para ungir las cabezas señaladas.
Ahí viene sobre dos pies alados
Envuelta de música de nardos y de bosques
La gracia y la belleza
Entre los ruidos de las calles
Sobre sus pies alados
Aparece de pronto entre los hombres y las casas
Y todo cae en el vacío
Envuelta de música de nardos y de bosques
La gracia y la belleza
Entre los ruidos de las calles
Sobre sus pies alados
Aparece de pronto entre los hombres y las casas
Y todo cae en el vacío
Los ruidos, las casas y las calles
Como las ropas de una mujer que se desnuda
Sólo tú quedas en el mundo
Sólo tu cuerpo como una flor inmensa
Que llena de universo.
Como las ropas de una mujer que se desnuda
Sólo tú quedas en el mundo
Sólo tu cuerpo como una flor inmensa
Que llena de universo.
¡Oh tierra cómo te has hecho bella en un instante!
Dos miradas se cruzan
Y canta un árbol nuevo
Dos manos se entrelazan
Dos anhelos se encuentran
Dos angustias se hablan en secreto
¿Por qué, razón?
Solo los signos y el azar lo saben
Y canta un árbol nuevo
Dos manos se entrelazan
Dos anhelos se encuentran
Dos angustias se hablan en secreto
¿Por qué, razón?
Solo los signos y el azar lo saben
Dos corazones reconocen un impulso ciego
Y el camino que se abre al infinito.
Y el camino que se abre al infinito.
Un hombre dice estrella
Y hay un temblor en los espacios
Un hombre dice Mar
Y las olas se agrandan satisfechas
Un hombre dice Selva
Y los árboles comprenden su deber milenario
Un hombre dice Viento
Y todo se agita hasta la muerte
Y hay un temblor en los espacios
Un hombre dice Mar
Y las olas se agrandan satisfechas
Un hombre dice Selva
Y los árboles comprenden su deber milenario
Un hombre dice Viento
Y todo se agita hasta la muerte
Estrella yo no te pido tu destino
Ni exijo mas aroma a la flor de la tarde
Yo quiero solo una amistad de anchas orillas
Un gran río profundo
Que embruje mi país
Y haga cantar las aguas dormiladas
Que siempre creen olvidar su vida
Ni exijo mas aroma a la flor de la tarde
Yo quiero solo una amistad de anchas orillas
Un gran río profundo
Que embruje mi país
Y haga cantar las aguas dormiladas
Que siempre creen olvidar su vida
La calle del azar
El punto mismo
Donde se encuentran los designios
El punto mismo
Donde se encuentran los designios
Los ojos se adivinan
Se entornan suaves
Saben que juntos van a mirar las cosas
Los labios se presienten
Palpitan como flores que empiezan la jornada
¿Son besos? ¿Son palabras?
¿Es un cambio de ideas a través de los años?
Por qué llegas tan tarde a mi jardín
Por qué no apresuraste la marcha en las tinieblas?
¿Con qué derecho el tiempo
Separa la flor del árbol que era suyo?
¿Por qué pone distancias en los años?
¿No sabes que este trozo de tierra te aguardaba
Cansado de cantar y de llamarte?
Se entornan suaves
Saben que juntos van a mirar las cosas
Los labios se presienten
Palpitan como flores que empiezan la jornada
¿Son besos? ¿Son palabras?
¿Es un cambio de ideas a través de los años?
Por qué llegas tan tarde a mi jardín
Por qué no apresuraste la marcha en las tinieblas?
¿Con qué derecho el tiempo
Separa la flor del árbol que era suyo?
¿Por qué pone distancias en los años?
¿No sabes que este trozo de tierra te aguardaba
Cansado de cantar y de llamarte?
Yo te había elegido
Como la tierra el árbol de su gracia
Como el naufragio al barco más amado
Esto es grande y es triste
Porque no hay modo de cambiar los signos
Mi exaltación acaso te asustaba
Ella era real como las tempestades
Perdona lo que venga y es que ya ha nacido
No es culpa mía si el destino habla
Entre el cielo y la tierra
Hay algo grande que comienza
Tierra y cielo sienten temblar las rocas y las nubes
Cielo y tierra son cómplices del sueño
Y sus pájaros nacientes sin permiso
Como la tierra el árbol de su gracia
Como el naufragio al barco más amado
Esto es grande y es triste
Porque no hay modo de cambiar los signos
Mi exaltación acaso te asustaba
Ella era real como las tempestades
Perdona lo que venga y es que ya ha nacido
No es culpa mía si el destino habla
Entre el cielo y la tierra
Hay algo grande que comienza
Tierra y cielo sienten temblar las rocas y las nubes
Cielo y tierra son cómplices del sueño
Y sus pájaros nacientes sin permiso
¿Serás mi estrella
Entre la vida y la muerte sorprendida?
Ven hacia mi más mía que mis huesos
Ven entre mirtos y mármoles profundos
¡Oh cuerpo del ritmo eterno!
¡Oh la amistad de músicas y cielos infinitos!
¡Oh belleza del mundo!
Permíteme acordarme de mí mismo
Entre la vida y la muerte sorprendida?
Ven hacia mi más mía que mis huesos
Ven entre mirtos y mármoles profundos
¡Oh cuerpo del ritmo eterno!
¡Oh la amistad de músicas y cielos infinitos!
¡Oh belleza del mundo!
Permíteme acordarme de mí mismo
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