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Poems--from anywhere, for Brokeback Mountain sensitized feelings...
twistedude:
from A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses* are two ;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run ;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun
*a single compass, as we know it today, is meant
John Donne, 1590s.
dly64:
I used this on another thread, but it really belongs here. I love this poem! It is about loving and parting. I can see Ennis feeling this:
A Dream within a Dream
by Edgar Allen Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet, if Hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it, therefore, the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
dly64:
Here is another one I really like ...
Bereft
by Robert Frost
Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking downhill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and day was past.
Somber clouds in the west were massed.
Out in the porch's sagging floor
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God
twistedude:
Inspired by "Nightfall" (by Living-in-Transcendence, www.fanfiction.net)--actually very sophisticated, and God knows if it will ever get romantic, like this:
Unsere beiden Schatten
sahen wie einer aus
dass wir lieb uns hatten
das sah man gleich daraus.
Und alle Leute
sollen es sehen
wenn wir bei der
Laterne stehen
wie einst, Lili Marlene,
wie eins, Lili Marlene.
Our two shaows
looked like one,
so that anyone could see right away
that we loved each other,
and everybody shall see it
when we stand by the lantern,
as once, Lili Marlene, as one, Lili Marlene
But the song has been bugging me ever since chapter one, set in Germany, January, 1933. Jack is a caberet actor, and Ennis is a painter.
This Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht song from "The threepemnny Opera" would perhaps be in better keeping:
Wach' auf, du verrotteter Krist;
mach' dich an dein suendiges Leben.
Zeig' , was fuer ein Shurker du bist
Der Herr Gott wird's dir denn shon geben.
Verschacke dein' Bruder, do Schupf,
Verkaufe dein Eheweib, du Wicht,
Der Herr Gott-- fuer dich ist er Luft?
Er zeig's dir bei'm juengsten Gericht....
Wake up you rotten Christian
get moving with your sinful life.
show what a scoundrel you are
the lord God, he'll let you have it!
chain up your brother, you pusher
sell you wife, you critter-
The lord God, for you is he thin air?
he's let you have it at the Last Judgement!
Sheera:
--- Quote from: julie01 on July 05, 2006, 11:03:23 pm ---Our two shaows
looked like one,
so that anyone could see right away
that we loved each other,
and everybody shall see it
when we stand by the lantern,
as once, Lili Marlene, as one, Lili Marlene
--- End quote ---
That's lovely. I wonder if I could find an audio recording of this song? Such poignant lyrics.
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