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    AC Benus
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  • 10/07/2022
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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 - 18. a gaze desiring closeness

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Die Bäder

 

4.

Der ich – verbuhlt in alle Schönheit leide

Und immerfort in neuem Beben wanke

Und in die Irre gehe – ich bemerke

Euch, kaum-Beseelte, da Ihr Eure schlanken

 

Gebräunten Glieder ans Geländer lehnet

Den Springern zuseht und den Taucher-Spielen

Und Euren Blick, der keine Fernen sehnet,

Und nichts von Sternen träumt und dunklen Zielen.

 

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The Public Baths

4.

It’s I – who suffers the love of beauty’s form

Who staggers beneath every new heart tremor

Who will often go astray – I notice you

Barely animated, beside yourself, as

 

You lean tanned, lithe limbs against the railing

Watching the divers and the swimmers at play

With a gaze desiring closeness, and of dreams

Viewing merely stars and their gloomy prospects.

 

 

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Giovanni Giacometti Young Bather (1911)

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

Once upon a time, I felt such thoughts as these, watching another also watching, and knowing one is not the one in view. The simplicity  in the yearning expressed here is beautiful. 

Thank you, Parker. I too think Robert Jentzsch did wonders with this bathhouse collection. Hopefully he will now make it into more Gay anthologies.

Thanks again! 

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On 10/7/2022 at 11:35 PM, raven1 said:

Beautiful poem AC.  I love the picture also.  In fact I have 4 similar framed reproductions by different artists from the same time period of nude males swimming or sailing.

Thank you, raven1! I haven't attempted to post pieces with artwork before, even for the poems I post in the Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love. With them it might seem easy to find images that date from the era of the poem and portrays an aspect of Gay love. But I find it hard to do and limit an appreciation of the poem. 

But with these Robert Jentzsch, I think I've found my stride :) Thank you for mentioning the artwork; it's a fun challenge to find them 

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