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 Mar 2021 DAVID
Anais Nin
"Why one writes is a question I can never answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me – the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
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"We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely … When I don’t write, feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing."
('The New Woman', 1974)
 Mar 2021 DAVID
Arlo Disarray
I am not me when I'm in public

And what I mean by that is,
I really put on an act

And ohhhh what a performance it is

I could sell tickets to this ****, it's so good

You really wouldn't believe it

You see, I work in customer service
and I deal with people all day
They come and they go, and I am so bubbly and nice
and they just
eat
me
up

I am like candy

so sweet and addicting,
they keep coming back for more

I am the one they all seem to adore

But if they'd just look into my eyes
If they could see beyond the surface
deep inside
where it all hides
They'd see the little black hole where my heart used to be
and the thoughts that keep me awake at night
They'd see the void of happiness
and the hatred I feel for myself
and everyone else
around me
who is happier
than I
will ever possibly be

There is a fire burning
turning my memories
into ash
Sending everything I've ever known
to the trash
And melting away any chance of my healing
Keeping the wounds on the surface
of me peeling
But never
ever
really, truly
revealing

anything

because I am nothing
and my mind is nothing
and my thoughts are
Yes, that's where it's supposed to end.
 Jan 2021 DAVID
Bogdan Dragos
she kept saying how much she
hated her tattoos

and kept showing them
to us

"Got 'em when I was young and
dumb and now I
jus' wanna rip my skin off."

She pulled her skirt up
to show one on her inner thigh. "Ugh, look at
this one. It's supposed to
be a bottle of Jack but looks
like a wrinkly **** that's about to
get in. ****, and this one… This one
looks more like a **** than
an eye, really." She kept pulling her
skirt up farther and farther
until it became very
clear that she
had no underwear

"You wanna touch it? she'd ask
from time to time

It was funny cuz she was in her late
twenties and we
were kids. I was twelve if I remember right

She probably got a kick
out of making young boys *****

It validated her
and we had not a **** thing to object

Good times
https://bogdandragos.com/2021/01/09/hope-shes-okay-wherever-she-is/
 Nov 2020 DAVID
Lord Byron
’Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief,
Are mine alone!

The fire that on my ***** preys
Is lone as some volcanic isle;
No torch is kindled at its blaze—
A funeral pile!

The hope, the fear, the jealous care,
The exalted portion of the pain
And power of love, I cannot share,
But wear the chain.

But ’tis not thus—and ’tis not here—
Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now,
Where glory decks the hero’s bier,
Or binds his brow.

The sword, the banner, and the field,
Glory and Greece, around me see!
The Spartan, borne upon his shield,
Was not more free.

Awake! (not Greece—she is awake!)
Awake, my spirit! Think through whom
Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake,
And then strike home!

Tread those reviving passions down,
Unworthy manhood!—unto thee
Indifferent should the smile or frown
Of beauty be.

If thou regret’st thy youth, why live?
The land of honourable death
Is here:—up to the field, and give
Away thy breath!

Seek out—less often sought than found—
A soldier’s grave, for thee the best;
Then look around, and choose thy ground,
And take thy rest.
 Nov 2020 DAVID
Amado Nervo
Pasó con su madre. ¡Qué rara belleza!
¡Qué rubios cabellos de trigo garzul!
¡Qué ritmo en el paso! ¡Qué innata realeza
de porte! ¡Qué formas bajo el fino tul...!
Pasó con su madre. Volvió la cabeza:
¡me clavó muy hondo su mirada azul!
Quedé como en éxtasis...
                                        Con febril premura,
«¡Síguela!», gritaron cuerpo y alma al par.
...Pero tuve miedo de amar con locura,
de abrir mis heridas, que suelen sangrar,
¡y no obstante toda mi sed de ternura,
cerrando los ojos, la dejé pasar!
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!

I felt her presence, by its spell of might,
Stoop o’er me from above;
The calm, majestic presence of the Night,
As of the one I love.

I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight,
The manifold, soft chimes,
That fill the haunted chambers of the Night,
Like some old poet’s rhymes.

From the cool cisterns of the midnight air
My spirit drank repose;
The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,—
From those deep cisterns flows.

O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,
And thy complain no more.

Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer!
Descend, with broad-winged flight,
The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair,
The best-beloved Night!
 Jul 2020 DAVID
Luis Cernuda
Contigo
 Jul 2020 DAVID
Luis Cernuda
¿Mi tierra?
Mi tierra eres tú.
¿Mi gente?
Mi gente eres tú.
El destierro y la muerte
para mi están adonde
no estés tú.
¿Y mi vida?
Dime, mi vida,
¿qué es, si no eres tú?
 Jul 2020 DAVID
Luis Cernuda
Yo no te conocía, tierra;
con los ojos inertes, la mano aleteante,
lloré todo ciego bajo tu verde sonrisa,
aunque, alentar juvenil, sintiera a veces
un tumulto sediento de postrarse,
como huracán henchido aquí en el pecho;
ignorándote, tierra mía,
ignorando tu alentar, huracán o tumulto,
idénticos en esta melancólica burbuja que yo soy
a quien tu voz de acero inspirara un menudo vivir.

Bien sé ahora que tú eres
quien me dicta esta forma y este ansia;
sé al fin que el mar esbelto,
la enamorada luz, los niños sonrientes,
no son sino tú misma;
que los vivos, los muertos,
el placer y la pena,
la soledad, la amistad,
la miseria, el poderoso estúpido,
el hombre enamorado, el canalla,
son tan dignos de mí como de ellos yo lo soy;
mis brazos, tierra, son ya más anchos, ágiles,
para llevar tu afán que nada satisface.

El amor no tiene esta o aquella forma,
no puede detenerse en criatura alguna;
todas son por igual viles y soñadoras.
Placer que nunca muere
beso que nunca muere,
sólo en ti misma encuentro, tierra mía.
Nimbos de juventud, cabellos rubios o sombríos,
rizosos o lánguidos como una primavera,
sobre cuerpos cobrizos, sobre radiantes cuerpos
que tanto he amado inútilmente,
no es en vosotros donde la vida está, sino en la tierra,
en la tierra que aguarda, aguarda siempre
con sus labios tendidos, con sus brazos abiertos.

Dejadme, dejadme abarcar, ver unos instantes
este mundo divino que ahora es mío,
mío como lo soy yo mismo,
como lo fueron otros cuerpos que estrecharon mis brazos,
como la arena, que al besarla los labios
finge otros labios, dúctiles al deseo,
hasta que el viento lleva sus mentirosos átomos.

Como la arena, tierra,
como la arena misma,
la caricia es mentira, el amor es mentira, la amistad es mentira.
Tú sola quedas con el deseo,
con este deseo que aparenta ser mío y ni siquiera es mío,
sino el deseo de todos,
malvados, inocentes,
enamorados o canallas.
Tierra, tierra y deseo.
Una forma perdida.
 Jul 2020 DAVID
Luis Cernuda
No es el amor quien muere
somos nosotros mismos.

Inocencia prístina
abolida en deseo
olvido de sí mismo en otro olvido
ramas entrelazadas
¿por qué vivir si desaparecéis un día?

Fantasmas de la pena
a lo lejos los otros
los que ese amor perdieron
recorriendo las tumbas
como un recuerdo en sueños
otro vacío estrechan.

Por allá van y gimen
muertos en pié vidas tras de la piedra
golpeando impotencia
arañando la sombra
con inútil ternura.

No no es el amor quien muere.
 Jul 2020 DAVID
Alfonsina Storni
Tu vida es un gran río, va caudalosamente.
A su orilla, invisible, yo broto dulcemente.
Soy esa flor perdida entre juncos y achiras
que piadoso alimentas, pero acaso ni miras.

Cuando creces, me arrastras y me muero en tu seno;
cuando secas, me muero poco a poco en el cieno;
pero de nuevo vuelvo a brotar dulcemente
cuando en los días bellos vas caudalosamente.

Soy esa flor perdida que brota en tus riberas
humilde y silenciosa todas las primaveras.
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