tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post386576766124028612..comments2023-10-25T08:52:58.428+01:00Comments on Only In America: Music and Poetry For The Weekend: Rod McKuenHimselfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-47147982921938143642013-09-09T10:22:13.548+01:002013-09-09T10:22:13.548+01:00poet among the landscape painters
http://www.vang...<br /><i>poet among the landscape painters</i><br /><br />http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=330726&lang=en<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-71164467255421813972011-10-10T14:04:09.188+01:002011-10-10T14:04:09.188+01:00You're welcome m'dear.
It is for his poet...You're welcome m'dear.<br /><br />It is for his poetry that I admire him the most, how else could he be my favourite contemporary poet?<br /><br />COMING CLOSE<br /><br />I wanted so<br />To bend the bough<br />But never once<br />To break the branch.<br /><br />I hoped<br />That I might see<br />The blossoms<br />Fall intact<br />Without the petals<br />Coming loose<br />Or even once detached.<br /><br />What I wanted most<br />Was love<br />In a straight<br />Straightforward way.<br /><br />I wanted you<br />Not as you could be<br />Had I made you up<br />But the way I found you<br />No different from<br />The way you really are.<br /><br />I thought by now<br />We might have earned<br />A chance to come down close<br />And lie against the earth.<br /><br /><br />But I’m convinced<br />The earth will not allow<br />Even its truest lover<br />To belong to it<br />Now or straight away.<br /><br /><br />I cannot care<br />A little for you<br />I love only just enough<br />To love you all the way.<br /><br />Rod McKuen.<br />Coming close to earth.Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-58006647073324008042011-10-08T20:13:06.097+01:002011-10-08T20:13:06.097+01:00Rod McKuen's got a unique style, matched by ch...Rod McKuen's got a unique style, matched by charisma; only in America :) Thanks. VAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com