
Immaculada de Soul: Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
I speak low lest
my love evaporates
before e’en kissed
by your infant’s breath,
and beg before day’s
whispered hush
ascends to nightfall;
small child, look at me
one last time
before you crawl away as slow
as time roams vast.
Too soon tomorrow’s
branches, laced
with the chirps of sweet song,
will bow to cradle this dear life –
and since time nor death
show mercy –
warm arms, other than mine
shall hold him, and voyage with him
to a strange, beatific world,
where all will be waiting.
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Author: Anita Lubesh
I write poetry/prose/stories/short stories/verses for children/sketch/and have 6 chapters of a novel sitting there like that half eaten trifle in the fridge or bottle of Jack Daniels because something makes you afraid to eat it or drink... right now..
I am a proud Geordie from England's northern hemisphere and the beautiful city of Newcastle upon Tyne. I live with my lovely husband who came all the way from sunny California just for me, and my favourite animal, Bobble, our dog.
I am a member of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth and wish we could all do more, especially today, when such a lot is wrong.
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Rich and poetic.
‘I speak low lest
my love evaporates’ and the line about ‘crawl away as slow…’ really stuck out to me.
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Thanks for that, Lion… I was reading Shakespeare quotes and one stuck out ‘when you speak of love speak low…or something like that. I turned the lights out, grabbed it and ran. lol
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‘I turned the lights out, grabbed it and ran’ .Great expression 🙂
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The sacred and solemn
wrapped in a poem.
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Thank you for reading, David Redpath, lol. I am neither btw.
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I guess it takes one
to know one 😂 !
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Lol.
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Anita, that painting reminds me of visiting the Ufizzi in Firenze,
and knowing all those sacred
atrworks were painted by
the
notorious Renaissance Rat Pack!
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Is Rat Pack a positive or negative, there? I come and go…cept for Michael Angelo… reminds me of a poem.
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All depends what side
of the track the Rat Pack
in question is heading.
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