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Erica Jong

Becoming Light

  • Menna Abu Zahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    this fertile goddess
    with her golden hair,
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    the curse of loving
    that which causes pain,
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    Darling shoes,
    beloved feet,
    ten toes to walk me
    toward my true love,
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    sometimes confused with love
    which starts with L,
    but could easily be I,
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    Their tap taptap on the airport runway
    tells me the story
    of a lovely, lonely woman flying after love—
    that old, old story
    in a new pair
    of shoes.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    The poet must abolish I,
    said Keats;
  • Menna Abu Zahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Alphabet Poem: To the Letter I
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    have no identity,
    be as water flowing
    around a rock—
    a voice for all
    the unsaid waves within,
    antenna of the deep.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    people dig through tattered anthologies to find the fitting words.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    “Poetry is the honey of all flowers; the quintessence of all sciences…the marrow of wit…the very phrase of angels,” said Thomas Nashe, Shakespeare’s contemporary, in 1592. And so it still remains.
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