What claim has your piety on my deference?
Rod McKuen's got a unique style, matched by charisma; only in America :) Thanks. V
You're welcome m'dear.It is for his poetry that I admire him the most, how else could he be my favourite contemporary poet?COMING CLOSEI wanted soTo bend the boughBut never onceTo break the branch.I hopedThat I might seeThe blossomsFall intactWithout the petalsComing looseOr even once detached.What I wanted mostWas loveIn a straightStraightforward way.I wanted youNot as you could beHad I made you upBut the way I found youNo different fromThe way you really are.I thought by nowWe might have earnedA chance to come down closeAnd lie against the earth.But I’m convincedThe earth will not allowEven its truest loverTo belong to itNow or straight away.I cannot careA little for youI love only just enoughTo love you all the way.Rod McKuen.Coming close to earth.
poet among the landscape paintershttp://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=330726&lang=en
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Rod McKuen's got a unique style, matched by charisma; only in America :) Thanks. V
You're welcome m'dear.
It is for his poetry that I admire him the most, how else could he be my favourite contemporary poet?
COMING CLOSE
I wanted so
To bend the bough
But never once
To break the branch.
I hoped
That I might see
The blossoms
Fall intact
Without the petals
Coming loose
Or even once detached.
What I wanted most
Was love
In a straight
Straightforward way.
I wanted you
Not as you could be
Had I made you up
But the way I found you
No different from
The way you really are.
I thought by now
We might have earned
A chance to come down close
And lie against the earth.
But I’m convinced
The earth will not allow
Even its truest lover
To belong to it
Now or straight away.
I cannot care
A little for you
I love only just enough
To love you all the way.
Rod McKuen.
Coming close to earth.
poet among the landscape painters
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=330726&lang=en
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