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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted April 14, 2013 01:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
[For Kristen]


I am fit for Christianity,
because I have gone beyond it.

I have to embody it, inhabit it, consume it, make it my whole,
in order to understand what comes natural and habitual to you.

I must become a saint, to be what is personal to you.
The rest distracts me, but it suffices you.
From it, you weave inpenetrables.

I get entangled by what is not it, by what seems estranged.
But you draw essentials from what dissuades me.
You grasp in an instant what I must fashion into a lifestyle.

Your romanticism is central, what is expected.
Mine is practiced, what is sought for,
with all accoutrements;
what comes natural to you.

How do you understand what I must build a fortress to conceive?
All my life is spent in accumulating that treasure
which you take for granted, as basic sustenance.

I have nothing to say, but what you tell me;
to fashion it into something that sounds better,
but is a mere echo of that explosion.

Unsophisticated, your terse wisdom,
confounds my intellectual outpourings.

You say in a few words,
what you don't realize I say in so many.
And maybe I seem brilliant,
but your modest explosions silence my discourse.

I think it is wise to articulate,
and extrapolate,
what to you goes without saying.

You are a marvel, and I am your herald.

Your surface is my daydream;
I lean back to touch what you brush away,
and bless as you squander.

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taureau20
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posted April 14, 2013 01:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for taureau20     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I somehow see a strong Tagore influence here... Good poem.

I like the title a lot. Let me interpret it this way - if the surface were to mean physical beauty - then this is another way of saying - "your beauty is my virtue" - something which a lover would say to his love. For the depth within a person is sometimes mysteriously linked to the virtue or beauty of another... This obviously works very well in the case of a father and son/daughter relationship. (A virtuous father will have a beautiful daughter.) And when a claim is sought by a deep lover, this will also work for them. For deep love, I somehow feel, has an inherently filial character...

I see that you worship the muse of this poem - and worshipping is greater than love itself, I feel...

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted April 17, 2013 09:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not bad for somebody who just drank a bottle of wine.

Tagore influence? I only wish.

Tagore and Rumi divide the world between them,
like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, but better.

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