Showing posts with label poem about leaving home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem about leaving home. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

Days of Kindness read by Leonard Cohen



Days of Kindness
       ~by Leonard Cohen
Greece is a good place
to look at the moon, isn't it
You can read by moonlight
You can read on the terrace
You can see a face
as you saw it when you were young
There was good light then
oil lamps and candles
and those little flames
that floated on a cork in olive oil
What I loved in my old life
I haven't forgotten
It lives in my spine
Marianne and the child
The days of kindness
It rises in my spine
and it manifests as tears
I pray that loving memory
exists for them too
the precious ones I overthrew
for an education in the world


Moon Road by Allen Antonello




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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Born to Leave: a poem




Born to Leave


I listen to Lightfoot
to recall that summer

how I pushed and resented
and fought all
even me
for the power
to leave that womb of a town,
or
sucking ever,
it would tear at my hem
and winning
would have me
forever.

Reno beamed and glistened.
Warm neon buzzed dares
that I leave her.

But there was a place
Northwest in shade
under clouds
amongst great trees
all in the perfect gray rain.

I ran there to my fantasy
drove there to the land
melted easily
peacefully
with my destiny.

(c) MLM (Lydia) 1976 Revised 01-08-09


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