Angeline
Poet Chick
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writers, artists, musicians. Ever write them? I do, a lot. Post ones you have here or write one. Who inspires you? Why? How?
Fernando Pessoa
Forgive me
not seeing your thin countenance.
You slip easily past notice, waving
like a forgotten reed while I
gather my own flowers,
turn down petaless lids,
and stride past, your voice barely
rustling like a dry stalk
in a lost meadow.
You harbinger waving across years
are remote, standing on one faded leg,
stork like in a dusty coat blown wing back,
your hat dips off center, careless,
a shrug of failed respectability,
but altogether clownish, insubstantial,
you puzzle, you whimsy of imprecision,
you dark-eyed, mustachioed little tramp,
sidling into your own imagination
Now I am Janus,
looking necessarily ahead.
and unable to turn away,
my eyes dream east over oceans,
past time, yearning to know
your solitary heart, to hold
you in my world.
http://www.zb3.unizh.ch/ids/VB/Portugiesisch/PESSOA.gif
Fernando Pessoa
Forgive me
not seeing your thin countenance.
You slip easily past notice, waving
like a forgotten reed while I
gather my own flowers,
turn down petaless lids,
and stride past, your voice barely
rustling like a dry stalk
in a lost meadow.
You harbinger waving across years
are remote, standing on one faded leg,
stork like in a dusty coat blown wing back,
your hat dips off center, careless,
a shrug of failed respectability,
but altogether clownish, insubstantial,
you puzzle, you whimsy of imprecision,
you dark-eyed, mustachioed little tramp,
sidling into your own imagination
Now I am Janus,
looking necessarily ahead.
and unable to turn away,
my eyes dream east over oceans,
past time, yearning to know
your solitary heart, to hold
you in my world.
http://www.zb3.unizh.ch/ids/VB/Portugiesisch/PESSOA.gif
