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    AC Benus
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  • 09/25/2022
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 17. the beauty of the brutes

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Die Bäder

 

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Der Tiere Schönheit, ihrer dumpfen Augen

Leicht-überflossener Glanz

Vor jeden traumlosen Blick

Schamvoll weicht er ins Innre.

 

Nun weißt du, Seele, was auf immer dich scheidet

Von den Springern stolz, den Olympia-Siegern

Dich auf den schweren Boden geworfnen

Schwer mit zerflattertem Haar.

 

 

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The Public Baths

 

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Behold the beauty of the brutes, whose dull eyes

Faintly reflect the luster

Of every hopeless look ‘fore

It yields, shame-faced, inwardly.

 

There you see, soul, what separates you forever

From the haughty bounders, those Olympic champions

Who’ll ever knock you heavy to the ground

With nothing but tousled hair.

 

 

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Joaquín Sorolla Swimmers at Xàbia (1905)

 

 

 

 

 

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On 9/25/2022 at 7:24 PM, Parker Owens said:

Again, I am transported by poetry back to days when I stood in awe of - and in fear of - those perfect physical specimens of my adolescence. Some scenes remain with me, whether I would keep them or no. Nonetheless, this poem moves me. 

Thank you, Parker. The poems in Die Bäder collection really grabbed my interest; they seem to cover erotic insecurity points of view not developed in many other poems. And certainly not in the English language before WW1, as these do. I think they're awesome 

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