Monday 21 September 2009

Against The Dearth Of Monday Poems


The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other's welcome,

And say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you

All your life, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

The photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott, "Love after Love"

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Viennese Roses.
Pink, from the
Rose Garden in
September 2008
Volksgarten


20 comments:

  1. Let me celebrate Monday poems with you and that magnificent offering. Many thanks.

    Greetings from London.

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  2. A lovely poem -- and oh! the roses!

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  3. The hot pink on the light pink is amazing.

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  4. Always loved that poem, and oh, how stunning these are!

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  5. Beautiful poem; and well-chosen for this rose with its red heart.

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  6. What a great post! Thanks for both the words and the images.

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  7. A fitting ending to my Monday. I especially like the first photo and the endless layers of pink.

    I have spent the last half an hour thinking of you and your lovely city as I have watched Rick Steves tour Vienna; he was eating at Demel's.

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  8. Oh Merisi,

    The meter of the poem and of your photos have reached out to my reader's soul.

    Thank you. This has been a difficult Monday for me, and I do thank you for the beauty that you've brought.

    xo

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  9. How I miss Vienna, especially the Volksgarten! Beautiful photos, Merisi - thank you :)

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  10. with your selection of photos each day, it's impossible not to enjoy the feast...

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  11. Too beautiful, Merisi; the poem and the roses.
    Thankyou.

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  12. What a beautiful poem--and oh, those roses! Thank you.

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  13. WOW !
    That is the most beautiful poem I have heard/read in a long, long time...
    Must copy it for myself.
    Thank you M.

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  14. flowers against the Monday blues...

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  15. Thanks for sharing the photos and poem with us.

    Paz

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  16. all the pinks, hombre like in tones...even a drying old rose is better than no rose!

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