Fanciulla e Amore

Reblogged from Sonia Elizabeth Di Placido:

Amore                   – Umberto Saba Ti dico addio quando ti cerco Amore, come il mio tempo e questo grigio vuole. Oh, in te era l’ombra della terra e il sole, e il cuore d’un fanciullo senza cuore. Fanciulla Fanciulla Piacevole l’eterno gioco deciso, desiderata il giro del’ universo sospeso, sia con me e cosi troveremo l’amor sd


Fanciulla e Amore

Amore                   – Umberto Saba

Ti dico addio quando ti cerco Amore,
come il mio tempo e questo grigio vuole.
Oh, in te era l’ombra della terra e il sole,
e il cuore d’un fanciullo senza cuore.

 

Fanciulla

Fanciulla Piacevole
l’eterno gioco
deciso, desiderata

il giro del’ universo
sospeso, sia con me
e cosi troveremo
l’amor

sd


Bernard O’Reilly’s 1883 classic

The Mirror Of True Womanhood: A Book Of Instruction For Women In The World.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/30/map-of-womans-heart/

Not much has changed in over 200 years. Perhaps a bit more convoluted is all.

 

 

 

 


forfeiting

[in progress]

what do you forfeit?

the skin or the hair, the eyes

the weekly salad

the daily coffee

to forfeit the

onagain, offagain, onscreen,

offscreen relationship?

forfeit


Shove the Poem

Let me make this perfectly clear:

All I have ever cared about
And all you should ever care about
Is what happens when
you lift your eyes from this page.

Do not think for one minute
it is the Poem that matters.
Is not the Poem that matters.
You can shove the Poem.
What matters is what is out there
in the large dark
and in the long light,
Breathing.

Gwendolyn MacEwen


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