reading a poem
the long blue comma
of a butterfly
leggendo un poema
la lunga virgola blu
di una farfalla
Steven Smolak
Illinois ( USA)
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selected and translated by Lucia Fontana
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#65 A Haiku by Steven Smolak, September 6th, 2017
I loved this moment. The poem I was reading could only be distracted by a thing of beauty, just as when I encountered the woman I love– the long comma of her charms and beauty. There wasn’t a single thing wrong with us in that moment; it was eternity…
I want to tell her that time is a figment of our imaginations, that it is only gravity. I want to examine the one thing worth examining together, and hold onto the only thing that is real…
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a break in the rain . . .
knowing we’ll never reach it
we run for the rainbow
Dear Steve, thank you for your lovely words. She is lucky!
I see what you want to convey with the final ‘break in the rain’… But personally I think I would rather connect to my everyday-rainbow instead of thinking it is just an illusion to pursuit in some not well known future …. Thank you again for submitting and I hope you will again…!
Lucia
Dearest One of all that is dear,
I read our comments again, and feel to remind you that the “rainbow” is the illusion that there is anything more, or even better than the salty tear that falls from your precious cheek in a subway train, and some older gentleman looks upon you with a smile… A haiku of my good friend Justin’s
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where things exist
there is some sorrow —
samsara
Nicely done, Steve and Lucia
Jan
in Texas
Thank you dear Jan !
Lovely both, Steve and Lucia .