"explication" poems
inspired by
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5120189/love-cannot-be-controlled-or-confined/
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Love is Meant……
and there, I stop…
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nnnnyup; continuing on,
this phrase
a self~sufficiency, is it not?
no conditional clause, dangling particle,
no conjunction peg upon to hang your wintered hat,
no adjacent adjective for summer's ending sadness,
no preposition to lead us to sunny places, where we search more
for nouns and pronouns, or to project/protect, in adjectives to clothe our irrationality in logic-e,
logic to define, logic to confine,
illogically
love permits one to say to another human, you mine, hu-mine,
[an aside: "you mine,' (really?)]
a preposterous prepositional insanity notion, that needs no explication,
love is meant, love is meant, love is mean, dream & yet, meant!
stadium sized. concert hall big, mini pup tent,
love is clean+dirty s i m u l t a n e o u s l y
don't you see the self~sufficiency in that?
yet you still seek definition, reasoning, seasoning,
love is meant to-be bent irregular straightaway,
love is meant, to be/not, cold 'n bot, silly hot,
lover is inert, hurt, ert,(1)
love is every point of,
of a sword's length
hilt & blade,
yet ironic,
the tip alone
is a self sufficient *****
to be full~on damaging enough to ****
to fully comprehend,
that love is meant
needs no further modifying defying
pointless phrasal modification of explanation…
s u n d a y
(if the week did not commence with a sunday,
hu-mans would have needed to create one,
to understand,
love is meant)
4:39am
Sun Aug 10
Twenty Twenty Fidelio (5)
in a new york city frame of mine
Aug 17, 2025
Aug 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM UTC
a passing balloon piece,
his, within in a message,
makes the imagery explode
with numerous contractions,
even confusions, and requires an
explaining explication and a fresh
application of sealant
men see the words ~ think war or football,
women think of the lyric, phrase in a sad
love ballad that means recall, and a
moistening tear drop that liquifies but doesn’t drop
but that word, pulverized, has an enormity
attached, that conjures destruction total,
s battlefield’s aftermath, tree stumps cut
down, synchronized with bodies in parts,
sole souls departing
without reasoning/justification
the lineage upon her face,
pulverized by sorrow and
no expectations for the morrow,
gaveled into existence,
by losses and carried
for a length of a term ill defined,
as “life”
with no hint of irony, for it’s not life
when it’s spent reminiscing remembering
the dismemberment of what was a
joy taken instantly and perpetually inexplicabe
the tragedies multicolored in black,
a solid stolid state that nary a meter,
talking centi’s here, pinch of breeze
and /or hurricane alters status quo,
both of us have long known that, but
we nonetheless pick up grains, single
alphabet scrambled pieces to put the
whole together again, but it’s a cause
hopeless cause we be
are
pulverized inside so
the chorded chore is
a double whammy
and still
and yet
we say
but,
for we cannot stop our fingers
from their appointed rounds
and we think in term not of hope
but a thought out louded,
the eternal question,
what if
we do not try?
Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024 at 10:18 AM UTC
how Eye make love,
this popped into my head
tho questioning this quest,
what purpose served, unknown...
lacking the infatuation to poetry write,
the mind retreats to the basics,
eye write with no destination,
wondering at the wonderment
of this basic actionable accolade...
sometimes,
be the
operative word,
sometimes
cooperative,
is the operative...
sometimes,
is but a
it just depends
who
is the initiate
and who possesses the initiative...
every story has a different
author, ending...
sometimes slow,
sometimes muy rapido
in foreign tongues
in foreign places,
the only commonality be that
wonderment
eye wish this not to be explanation,
eye wish this to be an explication
of the texts of sensual visionaries,
imagining the helping to happening,
the passageway to and from
where the mind begins,
the body completes its origination
oft I close my Eyes,
listening to hers,
her eye voices directing me,
what will be the course of our
course,
miss no Michelin starred landscapes,
through hers, mine Eyes triumphant...
tour guide excellente
cannot explain
why the temp sometimes
solar flares,
why the temp sometimes
is a glacial expedition,
tongue led,
from toes to eyelids...
always buy tickets for a
round trip flight...
how
is a titillation, begging you to read & expose,
there is no how, only sometimes better,
sometimes different...
why
is a question needs no asking...
when
when the shape of her profiled neck,
reflects shadows of further inquiry,
when her décolletage collects me
as she and her designer intended...
when
she laughs uproariously at my piquant,
suave and debonair one liners,
requiring kissing tickling calming
when
tears spill when reading
a new takeaway poem mine,
needy for a tongue to collect that spillway...
just being friendly appreciative and thanking
where
is when
the how and
the why
intersect
the intemperate weather of
being alone
subtle suggests
auto recollections
now know
the how, when, where and the
why,
my Eyes compose this elegy
of memories of past and present...
Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 9:18 AM UTC
The Prism Through Which We See Clearly
~
light saws our untrue selves with acute angles,
piercing our holistic pretenses, daily disambiguation features,
our sheltering disguises into our essence refractive elements
this is not a cute rainbow poem - run from here
it is a dissection of our true nature
why belabor, why elaborate?
through the prism
you color-coded self, tracted,
a mapping of your intersections,
what each color speaks, needs not an explication,
your hidden humanity comes to my eyes, in full revelation
at last I see you clearly
the lost and black withered limbs,
the stirring, leaping, enflamed flaring, never ceasing, breathing elements that mark your singularity
did you know your eyes are constant singers?
through prism, each note heard distinctly, as it rises uplifted,
your song, mine for observation and weeping exhalations,
your song, the production number of thy own composition,
through prism, our interior visual disinterred and released,
here I must cease, for what seen, grievous weeping deepens,
from the glory and the pain my blurred wetness overwhelms
the clarifying crystal useless when tear coated
through the prism,
before the full length mirror,
my own, unowned, never could be owned,
'mirror mirror on the wall,'
warped weave of tissues, mine,
the song sounds, mine,
from lungs disgorged
myself, diagnosed and displayed
of what I see, spitting speech
ceases and desists,
the only thought permitted, repeated,
where is my shelter now?
5/13/17 6:49am
May 13, 2017
May 13, 2017 at 7:02 AM UTC
you have the formula
A Love Poem Recipe:
Fij = G(Mi x Mj)/Dij.
This formula, simplified, means that trade between two markets will equal the size of the two markets multiplied together and then divided by their distance.
(The model gets its name from its mathematical similarity to the equation in physics that describes gravitational pull.)
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long ago, swore off
the love poem business.
lying that this
the last poem ever published
moan not,
statistically, for sure be
a heart-infected sick teenager
bemoaning/high fiving
their fated status
but I don't need to add to
that smoldering pile
the excellence, the richness,
the virtuosity
of the formula
a metaphor,
for the bounty and the risk,
in any love affair, thus love needy
for a diagrammed explication
two markets, soft upon each other,
multiply their trade in love and kisses
can you kiss her (him) but once?
nonsense!
saying I love you
but once a day,
like it was a vitamin,
preposterous!
no, love expands like a gas
(a distant cousin to our formula),
filling in the empty spaces,
escaping through crevices,
spilling, oft filling up
the nearby bystanders
in love,
there is no thing as
one touch clicking
but one touch
reveals the genetic marker,
the initial intimacy injection
Let the addiction begin!
ten thousand grasps,
some soft, some hard,
upon each other,
till fingers go lifelong contented numb
desire and affection spread like a
positive infection,
the curative powers
elegiac,
but never prosaic and though
formulaic
think more
voltaic and paradisiac
electric heaven
go forth and scribe
you got the secret
recipe
Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 9:15 AM UTC
Homicide bomber through trial and error
The epitaph moniker scours my name
A sacredot comes to abduct unseen felonies
But you and I will never ever be the same
We neglect the olive branch
We are poles apart
Catacomb undercroft, catacomb deposit box
The cabinet mourns for me
My stigma is lost
Big chill runs through our vertebrae
It can surely be precise
Don't contemplate but ruminate
Extinction will suffice
We respect the villain
We lock horns
Catacomb undercroft
Catacomb deposit box
The cabinet mourns for me
Our stigma is lost
Diuturnal explication
Evanescent predicament
Fabricated blade incision
It cannot be over yet
Diuturnal - explication
Evanescent - predicament
Fabricatedbladeincision
It cannot be over yet
Homicide bomber - trial and error
Epitaph moniker scours my name
Sacredot comes to abduct unseen felonies
You and I will never ever be the same
We neglect the olive branch
We are poles apart
Apr 12, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 at 12:52 AM UTC
The Hardest Forgiving Slant
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9:19am Fri Sept 22 2023 ~ 8:02am Fri Sep 29 2023
commenced during the Ten Days of Awe
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we debase our language daily,
robbing the spectacular majesty [example]
of awe with the common overusing
vernacular of “awesome”
especially forgiveness is degraded,
we utter “I’m sorry” trippingly,
costless, less than cheap, with even the
snap-on veneer (1) of sincerity discarded,
but move on to the next rudeness
but today I will not permit myself
an easy letting-off-the-hook, no shifting
of blame to anonymity, or fast forward to tomorrow,
when we can obfuscate our intrepid
dishonesty one more time…again
to forgive those who have injured us,
not that hard, or the judging deities,
who silently wink and nod, but offer
no certitude beyond trying, itself a
maybe, maybe not, truly tiring this
trying tacking the constant requests
so first an etymology explication on
the tension inherent that very word,
f o r g i v e
As a word, as a sensed,
intuitively-
it is a
Perfect Continuous Infinitive! (2)
to
forgive is
perfect,
to forgive is
continuous,,
to forgive is
infinite!
what a marvelous, perpetual
past, present and always futuristic
word (alas)
The Hardest Forgiving?
to forgive oneself
so nearer to impossible,
the first responders doing triage,
leave people like me for last,
as it a unconditional condition
with no cure that can be effected
indeed, by our very affect,
they instant diagnosis seeing our
very gestures, body language, or ****** expressions,
all reveal the hopelessness of
the never-to-be-given-grace,
among us
for a thousand years,
I have tried and failed to forgive myself
for the worst I’ve done,
and there is no sword or club,
blood-letting,
that can dispatch the onerous burden I carry
so I write poetry,
a salve that offers
temporary relief,
while I write,
imposed a
momentarily distracting,
a kind of dusting of self~spin,
that chills myself
just until
the, this!
poem is finished,
the slant is drawn
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
BY EMILY DICKINSON
Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —
Sep 29, 2023
Sep 29, 2023 at 8:12 AM UTC
“writing is a minefield of life happenings…blessed be the seers
for they keep the faith.”
patty m
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life is a series of provocations and evocations,
I will indulge you and define them
as hundreds of micro aggressions,
or a combinatory,
minefield
which comes first,
the explosions or the writings?
chicken, egg, cart, horse,
surely your surly certain of the answer,
but I will not beg
but differ
the itch, the need, the urge, ignited
by the fuse of arrogance of a devastation of self esteem,
or the aches of breaks
of your severed body parts
are
uniquely yours,
requiring explication, repair by the surgery of your own
words shared.
searing unique pain,
makes you confident enough
steering you into becoming a seer.
May 6, 2023
May 6, 2023 at 3:31 PM UTC
“The Weight of the Untold” (Pradip)
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6:55am: Jan 2 nine twenty twenty five
(read the comments first)
enveloped by the early mix
of morning’s hangover of dark
blue gray, window glints of a
sun playing peekaboo over the
yet there (!) Manhattan skyline,
the utter “ness” of the stilled,
unwritten, unstirred, uncolored
dim of medium shadowy light,
the quietude is an actual thing,
a warming coverlet of cozy peace
am I not forcibly compelled to
write of the weight of white spaces,
Pradip pokes my curious anxiety,
as I question my own words, that
he tosses back to me, so so oft
he ****** the cells of my fingertips
to peek, to bleed, then peck letters
from within, to comprehend my
museum artifacts of words,
the weight of their panoply
of mystery
How, how can the white weight of
our seemingly empty spaces tween
words, carry this burden on its,
bony shoulders, can’t we just let them
be, like the breaths exhaled, the
disappearing exhaust of being human,
is it necessary to carry knowing knowledge,
of what needs no body, isn’t the inexplicable
better left unimagined, there be so much tolling troubles, let them be left masked, they’ll appear as embodied black letters, of-when, their discord is accorded their moment of due…no more need to succumb prematurely
to this onerous lighter than air pressurized crushing atmosphere of reused oxygen
did I awake just to prove my existence, to offer up this combination of vocabulary of wondering, one more explication of the unknowns that are visible to the naked eyes, big, hard, factuals better left alone…and suddenly the morning light has arrived,
dear god,it will be a sun-filled sky,
and that weight, is modestly eased,
never fully erased, but you know,
I know, most of its occupants
even those
who won’t show their faces
And perhaps they should remain
hidden in the white spaces
between the letters and the words,
u. n. t. o. l. d.
Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM UTC
It Must Be Done Lovingly -
this title comes easy,
leaps from screen,
jumps in between
my eyes,
where poems electric start,
starting line tween the
head and heart circuitry,
followed by a
thundering silence
of say what...
the notion, face smacks
a five fingered lighting bolt,
feeling the meaning, the ******
but the body, the text, not,
the explication, the purpose singular,
not so much
it's gonna make me work,
this entitled commandment
"it must be done lovingly,"
sure, words from heaven sent,
what does it mean precisely
it doesn't come with liner notes,
just empty sleeves,
no compact disc,
to explain it well
to your ill-written soul
brain pulsating images, lyrics, tunes,
mr. memories working overtime,
but no catalogue,
thematically a disaster,
blue lined paper
crawling with scrawlings,
notes from a blues guitar,
jumbled bojangling riffs discordant
whipped,
boy's locker room,
towel whipped
gonna give up,
exactly what
is the it
that must be done so,
with loving attention
crap cutting, beat the bush,
you know what's driving,
snap, crackle and pop,
it is arriving
with mega doses of
insatiable pain
you don't love her anymore
you knowing,
that she needs
the knowing,
deserves the certitude
of the bad news,
but cowardly lion
don't got
no idea
how to tell her
so the words
on the page
resonate,
with badass emotional clarity,
a guiding light,
do it lovingly
makes no perfect sense,
but it's sensible
and almost perfect
mr. memories speaks up
at last,
in a sad voice,
the old times flash,
drawing for you pictures,
lending strength,
and whatever else you gonna need,
from history and
tell her her lovingly,
you don't love her anymore
surrender your flag,
hand over your weapons,
you were good at loving her,
some long time ago,
but
No
don't say it with stale raisin bread reasons,
soiled explanations,
just hold her in a way,
the way you used to
that has grown dusty rusty
from lack of use
that will explain everything,
better,
by doing it
lovingly
Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 7:51 AM UTC
Avant de nous couvrir de l'or, de la myrrhe et de la rosée
Des eaux de nos volcans secrets
Je voudrais avant l'ultime explication
Avant qu'on n 'enterre sous nos mahots bleus,
Nos arbres à pluie et nos figuiers étrangleurs,
Panthéons naturels de nos divinités
Nos cordons ombilicaux amoureux,
Je voudrais, ma fine amour,
Qu'on fasse ripaille dans les Terres Inconnues
Qu'on fasse les 800 coups dans la Mer Dangereuse
Qu'on mange, qu'on rie, qu'on s'émeuve dans la Mer d'Inimitié
Qu'on prenne à bras le corps nos insaisissables cris et gémissements
Incompréhensibles de dugongs et de baleines à bosses
Qu'on s'en saisisse et qu'on les épingle
Comme des papillons rares sur une planche
Ou des fougères phosphorescentes sur un herbier
Sous du papier buvard avant de les faire sécher
A l'étuve de nos passions microendémiques.
Etudions la fréquence de nos cris
Et de nos épanchements
Grâce aux balises GPS
Inventorions les sauts intimes, les semences nouvelles, les racines-arceaux
Et donnons un nom local et scientifique à chaque nouvelle espèce
A chaque nouvelle danse, morsure, griffure ou caresse
Récupérons des spécimens de nos territoires
Identifions les hot spots de notre patrimoine amoureux
Et en fonction de leur risque d'extinction
Elaborons un plan de sauvegarde de la biodiversité
De notre Carte de Tendre
De nos fonds, de nos mangroves et de nos pitons.
Nous sommes botanistes, océanographes et naturalistes
Nous sommes vétérinaires de notre réserve naturelle
Notre jardin des plantes, notre forêt, notre laboratoire
Notre pépinière, notre refuge, notre corps tropical.
Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 2:32 AM UTC
I've not travelled much in this world,
I've seen/ and been part of many worldly states
I've beheld and been in her fair presence
Often without the courage nor words to express what I beheld.
Perchance I beheld her in a Buba, 'n once more
I stood there, lost for words, and thinking
Beautiful, Gorgeous, Elegant, Gracefull, Exquisite...
Yet something more there was beyond the Buba,
Something that transcended the dress,
Something that drew me beyond the dress,
Something radiant, soothing, persevering...
What I saw escapes my explication,
To comprehend the elegance,
For lack of a better word,
Just behold her and you'll understand.
Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 2:48 AM UTC
cigar strokes stinging mid-car ride down the hill of the highway
reminds me all too much
of the slow hum of a dimmed light hanging about a smoke covered sink
"im still humiliated"
she sinks into the kitchen floor
one hand over her ribcage
and the other over god-knows-what means the world to her today
i am waiting for an explication
to the wary few days
sitting over a body can only get you so far
when her mind is millions of miles away
some place happier, i hope
because the noose she tied
is too small for her neck
May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 3:08 AM UTC
*Excusez moi mademoiselle,
J'espionnais votre compte d'instagram et j'ai regardé toutes vos images,
Parce que votre apparence peut mettre des modèles hors entreprise si vous décidez de poursuivre la mode,
J'ai une théorie sur vos origines et j'aimerais partager cela avec vous,
Vos parents doivent être profondément amoureux quand ils vous ont donné naissance parce que c'est la seule explication que je puisse imaginer,
Vous êtes ridiculement belles, êtes-vous sûr d'être une femme et pas une déesse?
Haha. Je suis sûr que vous avez entendu de meilleurs compliments, mais ma chérie est sincère,
Je peux voir que vous êtes une femme amoureuse d'elle-même et que les gens vous envient pour cette réalisation,
Peut-être que certaines personnes pensent que vous êtes détestabile, mais je pense que vous êtes admirable,
Je me demande ce que les gars doivent faire pour passer du temps autour de vous parce que le chocolat noir, les roses bleues et les conversations douces ne sont pas assez bonnes pour une femme comme vous.
Vous mettez-vous une robe rouge la nuit et dansez-vous au clair de lune? Parce que vous avez l'air charmant tous les matins entre-temps, le reste d'entre nous est encore désordonné,
Je n'ai jamais essayé de cocaïne, mais je suis plutôt sûr que vous avez le goût de vous,
C'était censé être un compliment, alors j'espère que tu peux sourire,
Je suis athée mais Dieu vous bénit coiffeur parce que j'adore vraiment votre coiffure.
Lorsque vous mettez votre rouge à lèvres, vous avez l'air si beau que cela fait la grande faucheuse pour vous éviter tous les jours.
Je sais que nous ne nous connaissons pas et c'est tout à fait ma faute,
Peut-être la peur du rejet m'a-t-elle pris dans la tête et maintenant ça me rend timide comme une petite souris,
J'admet! Je suis passionnément curieux de vous et il me tue doucement ne vous connait pas,
Bien que vous sachiez quelle opportunité amusante pourrait être?
Pour moi de prendre une centaine de photos de vous, car c'est ce que font les photographes,
Et cela me donne beaucoup de chances de vous admirer,
Je sais que ce poème stupide n'a pas de rime, mais même si, j'espère que je vous ai fait rire pendant un moment et que tout ira bien.*
Stef Devid Alexandru ©
Apr 16, 2017
Apr 16, 2017 at 7:38 AM UTC
Some of them got scared
when the realization set in
That there was
In fact
No explanation
But then that
of what is within
Everything
In fact
that is the final
Explanation
Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 5:38 PM UTC
San Creation
Regeneration
Altercation
Explication
Duplication
Mystification
Explanation
Stuplication
Devination
Jubillation
Termination
Dumb Found Nation
May 24, 2015
May 24, 2015 at 12:57 AM UTC
a person coming
is a tremendous thing
for not only do they bear gifts
but also secrets
ones they'd rather keep away in a locked broom closet;
because making excuses is easier than true
explication.
and so when that person comes
you must treat them tremendously
because we all have things we'd like to keep dark.
Mar 25, 2020
Mar 25, 2020 at 5:46 PM UTC
I need no explication
For why your kiss is on my lips.
Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 4:23 PM UTC
It's been 973 days
Days filled with adventure, laughter, joy and passion
Passion, new experiences shared, taking us to new heights
Heights sending her crashing
Crashing waves surrounded by silence
Silence, no explication, no story
Story, the same old story
Story of forbidden love
Love as ancient as time
Time has come and gone
Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 7:52 PM UTC
We are here.
Of that there
seems
little doubt.
Why, or how
there seems
much doubt.
Some say it's due
to the
divine.
That, to me
seems like a
punt.
Humans have
always
used gods/god
to explain
the
unexplainable.
Gods are a
throwback
to ancient
times, used
to comfort
and explain.
Many still cling
to this idea,
an ancient idea.
Might there be
a different
explication?
Might we be
eternal
beings?
Moving through
different realms
of existence?
Learning as
we go.
Checking out of
one,
moving onto
another.
Keeping
Immortality
fresh and
new.
Why not I say.
So, live this
life to its fullest.
Then,
get ready for the next.
Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM UTC
Love, even if you don't believe it.
A smile never needed a reason.
Like the happy never needed a explication,
To make all of us smile.
Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 11:01 PM UTC
La terre est au soleil ce que l'homme est à l'ange.
L'un est fait de splendeur ; l'autre est pétri de fange.
Toute étoile est soleil ; tout astre est paradis.
Autour des globes purs sont les mondes maudits ;
Et dans l'ombre, où l'esprit voit mien que la lunette,
Le soleil paradis traîne l'enfer planète.
L'ange habitant de l'astre est faillible ; et, séduit,
Il peut devenir l'homme habitant de la nuit.
Voilà ce que le vent m'a dit sur la montagne.
Tout globe obscur gémit ; toute terre est un bagne
Où la vie en pleurant, jusqu'au jour du réveil,
Vient écrouer l'esprit qui tombe du soleil.
Plus le globe est lointain, plus le bagne est terrible.
La mort est là, vannant les âmes dans un crible,
Qui juge, et, de la vie invisible témoin,
Rapporte l'ange à l'astre ou le jette plus ****
Ô globes sans rayons et presque sans aurores !
Enorme Jupiter fouetté de météores,
Mars qui semble de **** la bouche d'un volcan,
Ô nocturne Uranus, ô Saturne au carcan !
Châtiments inconnus ! rédemptions ! mystères !
Deuils ! ô lunes encor plus mortes que les terres !
Ils souffrent ; ils sont noirs ; et qui sait ce qu'ils font ?
L'ombre entend par moments leur cri rauque et profond,
Comme on entend, le soir, la plainte des cigales.
Mondes spectres, tirant des chaînes inégales,
Ils vont, blêmes, pareils au rêve qui s'enfuit.
Rougis confusément d'un reflet dans la nuit,
Implorant un messie, espérant des apôtres,
Seuls, séparés, les uns en amère des autres,
Tristes, échevelés par des souffles hagards,
Jetant à la clarté de farouches regards,
Ceux-ci, vagues, roulant dans les profondeurs mornes,
Ceux-là, presque engloutis dans l'infini sans bornes,
Ténébreux, frissonnants, froids, glacés, pluvieux
Autour du paradis ils tournent envieux ;
Et, du soleil, parmi les brumes et les ombres,
On voit passer au **** toutes ces faces sombres.
Novembre 1840.
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Voyons, d'où vient le verbe ? Et d'où viennent les langues ?
De qui tiens-tu les mots dont tu fais tes harangues ?
Écriture, Alphabet, d'où tout cela vient-il ?
Réponds.
Platon voit l'I sortir de l'air subtil ;
Messène emprunte l'M aux boucliers du Mède ;
La grue offre en volant l'Y à Palamède ;
Entre les dents du chien Perse voit grincer l'R ;
Le Z à Prométhée apparaît dans l'éclair ;
L'O, c'est l'éternité, serpent qui mord sa queue ;
L'S et l'F et le G sont dans la voûte bleue,
Des nuages confus gestes aériens ;
Querelle à ce sujet chez les grammairiens :
Le D, c'est le triangle où Dieu pour Job se lève ;
Le T, croix sombre, effare Ézéchiel en rêve ;
Soit ; crois-tu le problème éclairci maintenant ?
Triptolème, a-t-il fait tomber, en moissonnant,
Les mots avec les blés au tranchant de sa serpe ?
Le grec est-il éclos sur les lèvres d'Euterpe ?
L'hébreu vient-il d'Adam ? le celte d'Irmensul ?
Dispute, si tu veux ! Le certain, c'est que nul
Ne connaît le maçon qui posa sur le vide,
Dans la direction de l'idéal splendide,
Les lettres de l'antique alphabet, ces degrés
Par où l'esprit humain monte aux sommets sacrés,
Ces vingt-cinq marches d'or de l'escalier Pensée.
Eh bien, juge à présent. Pauvre argile insensée,
Homme, ombre, tu n'as point ton explication ;
L'homme pour l'oeil humain n'est qu'une vision ;
Quand tu veux remonter de ta langue à ton âme,
Savoir comment ce bruit se lie à cette gamme,
Néant. Ton propre fil en toi-même est rompu.
En toi, dans ton cerveau, tu n'as pas encor pu
Ouvrir ta propre énigme et ta propre fenêtre,
Tu ne te connais pas, et tu veux le connaître,
LUI ! Voyant sans regard, triste magicien,
Tu ne sais pas ton verbe et veux savoir le sien !
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It is a love poem when I am making love to you, a soliloquy of silence but for your murmurs and your moans. The stanza of your shilouette, the verses of your curves. An iamb means I love you dearly, a dactyl that you are delicious, spondees and trochess of tenderness and passion. There are rhymes and rhythms when we lie upon each other, an alliteraration of kisses and hugs, caesuras to catch out breath. Our ********** is a chiasmus, making and taking tortuous turns until white sheets and yellow pillows fall on hardwood floors. Caresses precede onomatopoetic sighs that become love songs. Anaphoric thrusts need no explication, only the silence and solitude of joy.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS
Dec 24, 2020
Dec 24, 2020 at 5:47 PM UTC