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  • 05/09/2024
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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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The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 16. What am I to you?

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Sonette

 

Sonett I.

 

Ich lief von dir – zerrissen durch ein Wort,

Das mich aus deiner Zartlichkeit verstieß.

Ich sah mich nicht mehr um – Es blies

Ein heftig raucher Wind all meinen Kummer fort.

 

Was bin ich dir – du mir? Es ist kein Ort,

Wo meine Liebe ruhen darf. Es ließ

Keiner mich zu sich ins Paradies.

Mit tausend Schiffen zog ich aus – doch keines fand den Port.

 

Ich floh – du bist mir nachgegangen.

Wo der Kirschbaum blüht nahmst du meine Hand

Und hast mich wieder eingefangen.

 

Scheu schritten wir durch das nächtige Land –

Der Sturm war kühner als mein Verlangen

Und hüllte dich plötzlich in mein Gewand.

 

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The Four Sonnets

 

Sonnet I.

 

So I ran from you – shredded by a word

That exiled me from your tenderest care.

So I stopped looking around me – while

A fierce, smoke-filled wind blew my sorrows far away.

 

Thus what am I to you – or you to me?

There’s no place for my love to rest. No one

To invite me to their paradise.

I set sail with a thousand ships – but found no docks.

 

I fled – but you set out after me.

And where the cherry blossoms grasped my hand

You caught up and took me once again.

 

We strolled shyly through a night-bound landscape –

And my desire, stronger than the tempest,

Suddenly wrapped you up within my coat.

 

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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.
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you. 
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11 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

I can identify with the first two stanzas; there is unquestionably a deep yearning for safe harbor. So too might one yearn for the close-together stroll in the last two stanzas. Taken together, these are stunning. 

I think you are right, Parker. "A place for my love to rest" is a deep-seated wish most LGB and questioning youth can relate to. We all long for that coat broad enough to shelter two from the world's mean tempests.

 

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Certain parts struck me with great interest and/or meaning:

  **  A fierce, smoke-filled wind blew my sorrows far away.  **

  **  I set sail with a thousand ships – but found no docks..  **

And --

We strolled shyly through a night-bound landscape –
And my desire, stronger than the tempest,
Suddenly wrapped you up within my coat.

Meaningful imagery, indeed!  Thank you, @AC Benus

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AC Benus
On 5/9/2024 at 11:47 AM, ReaderPaul said:

Certain parts struck me with great interest and/or meaning:

  **  A fierce, smoke-filled wind blew my sorrows far away.  **

  **  I set sail with a thousand ships – but found no docks..  **

And --

We strolled shyly through a night-bound landscape –
And my desire, stronger than the tempest,
Suddenly wrapped you up within my coat.

Meaningful imagery, indeed!  Thank you, @AC Benus

Thanks, ReaderPaul. I agree with you in admiring Toni Schwabe's amazing ability to paint sweeping land- (and emotional) scapes with just the lightest touch of her brush. I find her work very inspiring as a poet   

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