Re: Quotation haibun & prose poems
Posted by:
voleboy (IP Logged)
Date: 24 August, 2004 05:59PM
Opus 1625: quotation haibun
Huntest thou my heart, for thou art huntress and mistress of mine soul and very whole. But come, beloved, and smile awhile upon your lover here, never to fear he shalt away with another but stay thy lover forever.
Come, sweet, greet me here as lovers do. I shalt pay what is due to the gods who watch over us, from gods of clover to gods of love and bliss. I shalt swear this single thing before all who gather: I calleth each to hear these words. For seizest the day, does the breeze.
The breeze seizest, and we shalt see through dream and day a way to love and loving joy. I am thy toy to play with, make or else to break as children spurnest, turnest away from games they have cast aside. I hath sighed for want of you, my sweet love, as the fleet days hath advanced without your heart to pour my sighs and songs and winsome wrongs into. I only longeth....
I longeth only to say, inasmuch the same way as was said, sagely wise, by the eyes of the poet, these lines Clark Ashton Smith designed...
From the nameless dark distilled,
Lethe flows
Through the night that no man knows.
Lethe flows, and knowest thou this truth? In ruth hath I proof....
25/08/04