Sunday, August 30, 2009

Ultramarine


Franz Schubert - Wasserflut, Die Winterreise
with Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake

Liquid lapis lazuli, the night
knits all the gold spirit threads
on which your abandoned beads
blink planetary solitudes.

If you pour yourself into her net
she'll cast you to beyond the seas
and teach you to offer your necklace
as pigment for the most holy hem.

But you're distracted by the skyline
and forget it's not for concrete
you can't see the blue-violet depths
that call to the gulls in your soul.

You keep seeing cockroaches skitter,
always at the edge of your sight,
and your eyes get tired of searching
for what they don't want to find.

Surrender this need, and like a bead
it will glide and show you the thread
tied tight to the hook in your heart
and pulled by the most loving hand.


thank you vv for the music response

6 comments:

Manuela said...

May 17 – “Offer yourself to Me just as you are. Don’t wait to be pleased with yourself. Be one with Me in your greatest shortcomings. I take them and restore you if you put your trust in Me. Have confidence. Who loves you the most?”

May 23 – Lyon. With the Sisters of Saint-Joseph de l’Apparition.

“You worry about not thinking of me constantly. You worry about your many shortcomings and are afraid to look at Me any more. You mustn’t do this. Just give yourself as you are. I know all about human nature."


at http://megfunk.com/entry.php?id=265

Gabrielle Bossis - He and I
Translated and condensed by Evelyn M. Brown

vv said...

something about the rhythm of your poem ad the water motif inspire me to offer this,
another musical response for you- and thank you




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m51OxL1fHOA&feature=related

Manuela said...

yes, i can hear it - better than the other one, so i'll change them - thank you for the response, and the ear you listen with.

Roxana said...

i have been waiting for the poem to settle in me gently, like a wave (a liquid lapis lazuli?) - like music, indeed.

Surrender this need, and like a bead
it will glide and show you the thread
tied tight to the hook in your heart
and pulled by the most loving hand


this is so wonderful it makes me silent... i surrender to these words, to this music.

Roxana said...

(scriu in curand! :-)

m said...

we surrender together, me to the gentleness of your words also

it's wonderful to have you back :)

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