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    AC Benus
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  • 01/08/2024
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Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems - 19. The fist of silence

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Welk ward der Sonne Strauß in deinen Augen

ganz leise weht des Flüsterns Flügelschlag

mit weichen Kinderarmen fallen Tränen der

Seele Jauchzen um den lieben Hals

das hinsinkt auf der öden Flur des Munds

hart trifft des Schweigens Faust ihm ins Gesicht

 

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Withered was the bouquet of sun in your eyes

which the whispering rustle of wings blew

to rend the soul with soft children’s arms

slipped around the much-beloved throat

cast to the desperate floor of the mouth

by the fist of silence hitting him hard

 

 

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On 1/8/2024 at 1:35 PM, Parker Owens said:

The first line was immediately descriptive: a withered bouquet of sun, a greying of love, the leaves and stems of delight turning brown and curling up.  You and Runge had me right there. 

Thanks, Parker. I think anyone rejected by a lover in public -- one afraid of being "exposed" -- knows what Runge is expressing here. That he does it in such an emotionally economical, and yet florid, way speaks to the poet's power as a wordsmith 

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On 1/8/2024 at 2:36 PM, ReaderPaul said:

Images of sadness, when someone is silenced.  There are time to be silent and times to speak, but in this is sounds like the silenced one has no choice.

Thank you, ReaderPaul. I think you and I have much the same reading on this poem. It is sad when the one you love acts like he does not know you, or does not want you to "say too much" where others may hear and "get the wrong idea," when the wrong idea is the revelation that these two human beings mean more to one another than is permissible by society

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