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taureau20
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posted April 08, 2013 05:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for taureau20     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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taureau20
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posted April 08, 2013 05:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for taureau20     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is the Mistral poem:

The Rose

The treasure at the heart of the rose
is your own heart's treasure.
Scatter it as the rose does:
your pain becomes hers to measure.

Scatter it in a song,
or in one great love's desire.
Do not resist the rose
lest you burn in its fire.

Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted April 09, 2013 12:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Beautiful.

The heart is a treasurehouse,
where the sweetest things are preserved.

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taureau20
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posted April 09, 2013 03:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for taureau20     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks!

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mirage29
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posted April 10, 2013 10:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
taureau20! Oh! I have missed you!! I miss your over-the-top wonderful 'smelly' poetry... How's that for a plunge into kitschy-ness?!

It was Gabriela Mistral's birthday on April 7th... Thought about you! Printed out the astrology chart from astrodienst, then the article from wikipedia. Saw this quote:

quote:
Mistral may be most widely quoted in English for Su Nombre es Hoy (His Name is Today):

"We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow', his name is today."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral


I realize that she was heavily affected by the death of her nephew whom she considered to be as 'her own child'...

But with romantic liberty, may I also apply her words to the "children" we gestate and birth through the wombs and loins of our deepest creativity...? We squeeze and process life-- the history of our pains, our mischiefs, our wonders and wanderings-- through these writings that we (shyly or self-consciously) offer and share with each other here at LL --- poetry full of HEart, moods, and mysticisms...

The Mistral poem you posted, The Rose, tortures me (in a good way)! Her words and images perfectly pivot-- turn, invert, flip, and fall--, like that leaf in another poem you've posted in this forum... You have the crafting ability with words and images that she does, I think.

Welcome back, taureau20! I'm looking forward with happy anticipation to 'dissolve' your poetry into my senses, once again...

"More taureau20 please!!"...

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taureau20
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posted April 11, 2013 05:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for taureau20     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you for those kind words, mirage29!

I am a great fan of the very few poems of Mistral I have read - Ido see where she comes from and what she stands for. I am yet to buy a proper Mistral book as it is quite expensive - I can only buy it on the internet as bookshops in my country don't generally carry it.

Yes certainly, am sure some poet at some point - given that we live in a day and age where "finding"/"discovering" the next metaphor -- and I tell you that finding a metaphor IS a very significant discovery -- is almost the equivalent of finding the next prime number - must have metaphor-ed the pen as a phallic symbol and the poem as a child. Gibran used the words "children of my longing" in another context but if he had chosen to speak of poetry, he could very well have used this sort of an expression - of his words running riot on pages...whether they be on the internet or in a book!*

I don't think I have the craftiness of Mistral - Mistral certainly had craftiness but I think it is probably better to not use the word crafty for her as she invested a lot of heart in her writings. Perhaps craft for her came later. (Though certainly given the great poet she was, she couldn't help but be crafty.) The sort of heart Mistral had I do not and therefore I rely more on being crafty. And beauty can be discovered that way... as this writer from Oregon, US proves it with his good poem, "What we know":-- http://dannyearlsimmons.blogspot.in/2011/11/what-we-know.html


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* Do excuse the over-the-top hyphenating

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