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Pieter Posted 23 years ago
One of my favourites
Flora
( Attila Jozsef, translation by P. Sz.)
Hexameters
The slushy snow’s thickening, the eaves starting to drip,
Blackened pile is the ice, it’s fainted, it fades away,
Fluid bubbles out, ripples towards the drain, flowing,
Away is the light joy, the heavenly height trembles a bit,
And happy desire throws its shirt with flush over the morning.
Do you see how fearing- awaking I love you, Flora?
In this chatty beautiful thawing you loosen off the moan
of my heart, as bandage of a wound- I’m tingling again to
hear the roar of the flood of your eternal name, delicate sunshine,
and I’m shivering seeing that I’ve lived without you.
( Attila Jozsef, translation by P. Sz.)
Hexameters
The slushy snow’s thickening, the eaves starting to drip,
Blackened pile is the ice, it’s fainted, it fades away,
Fluid bubbles out, ripples towards the drain, flowing,
Away is the light joy, the heavenly height trembles a bit,
And happy desire throws its shirt with flush over the morning.
Do you see how fearing- awaking I love you, Flora?
In this chatty beautiful thawing you loosen off the moan
of my heart, as bandage of a wound- I’m tingling again to
hear the roar of the flood of your eternal name, delicate sunshine,
and I’m shivering seeing that I’ve lived without you.
Top answer
I agree with you. I love the combination of nature and feelings. It gets deep down.
- I agree with you.
- I love the combination of nature and feelings.
- It gets deep down.
- By the way, first line "eaves" I suppose you mean "leaves".
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I agree with you. I love the combination of nature and feelings. It gets deep down. By the way, first line "eaves" I suppose you mean "leaves".
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Eaves is not leaves. Buy a dictionary Maj. If you moderate an ESL forum. Or have a kit kat.
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well, you are right but I am not moderating anything so don't worry about it. I'll have a kiwi, instead.
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yeah, one of them. Passion fruit is another. Do you have any really passionate poems, peter?
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I had one with explicit *** , but I don't know if I can find it now., it's on a paper. The last line was something like : " ... on your lips white stream of pleasure.'" Someone liked it a lot. But since I don't intend to publish passionate things ( 'cos i'm a teacher ) I don't write.
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I really don't understand you women. Some hours earlier a fiend, a girl, asked me on SMs, what is LIFE? I said Clapping tulips on a grave. And The impatience before patient death. And she says that she needs an other type of answer because she's in a romantic phase. Who understands this. I think I'd rather be gay.
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