you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Derek Walcott, identity, love poetry, mystic, philosophy
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Derek Walcott, identity, love poetry, mystic, philosophy
My compulsion is
to teach the birds to sing it,
to teach the fish to drink it…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Gloria Fuertes, imagery, love poetry, translation
To force the pace and never to be still
Is not the way of those who study birds
Or women. The best poets wait for words.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: birds, imagery, love poetry, Nissim Ezekiel, poems about poetry