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Greve-Elevation
11:17
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ELEVATION
(C. Baudelaire)
Above the lake
in the valley
and the grove
along the hillside,
high over the sea
and the passing clouds,
and even past the sun!
to the farthest confines
of the starry vault
mount,my spirit,
wander at you ease
and range exultant
through transparent space
like a rugged swimmer
revelling in the waves
with an unutter male delight.
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere
to a higher plane
and purify yourself
by drinking
as if it were
ambrosia
the fire that
fills and fuels Emptiness.
Free from the futile
strivings and the cares
which dim existence
to a realm of mist
free is he
who wings
an upward way
on mighty pinions
to the fields of light
whose thoughts
like rising larks
into the morning sky
whose flight
unchecked
outreaches life
and comprehends
the language of flowers
and of all mute things
Ascend beyond
to a higher plane
purify
drinking
the fire
that fills and fuels
Emptiness
Free from the
strivings and the cares
which dim existence
to a realm of mist
free is he
who wings an upward way
on mighty pinions
to the fields of light
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I PRIZE THE MEMORY . .
(C. Baudelaire)
I prize the memory
of naked ages
when
Apollo relished
gilding marble limbs
whose agile-fleshed-originals
achieved
their ecstasy
with neither fraud
nor fear
and nursed by the sky
enjoyed the health
of a sublime machine
Cybele then
abundant in her yield
did not regard
her sons
as burdensome
but tender-hearted she-wolf
graciously
suckled the universe
at her brown dugs
Lithe and powerful
a man deserved
his pride in beauties
who called him their king
flawless fruit
engendered without shame
whose ripened flesh
asked only to be tried!
Today the poet eager to recall
such human splendor
in our corruption we possess
the beauties unrevealed
to ancient times
youth we worship still
its untroubled brow,
its eyes as bright
as water
sacred youth
the scent of flowers
that shares
its song, its scent, its irresistible warmth!
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interludio
(C. Baudelaire)
Under the burden of your sloth
your head
just like a child's
lolls with all the wobbly grace
of a baby elephant
your body lists and rights itself
like a clipper in high seas
rolling from side to side until
the spray has soaked its spars
And like a current swollen by
the melt of clashing ice
when the saliva in your mouth
surges through your teeth
I seem to drink a devil's brew
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4-Salice-Correspondences
05:52
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CORRESPONDENCES
(C. Baudelaire)
The pillars of Nature's temple are alive
forests of symbols between us and the shrine
remark our passage with accustomed eyes.
Like long-held echoes, blending somewhere else
into one deep and shadowy unison
as limitless as darkness and as day,
the sounds, the scents, the colors correspond.
rich, corrupt and masterful
EVENING HARMONY
Now comes the time when swaying on its stem
each flower offers incense to the night
the violin trembles like a heart betrayed
A mournful altar ornaments the sky
The violin trembles like a heart betrayed
a tender heart unnerved by nothingness
A mournful altar ornaments the sky
the sun has smothered in its clotting blood
A tender heart unnerved by nothingness
hoards every fragment of the radiant past
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HYMN TO BEAUTY
(C. Baudelaire)
Do you come from on high
or out of the abyss
O Beauty? Godless yet divine
your gaze
showers
favor and shame
and therefore some
have likened you to wine
Your eyes reflect
the sunset and the dawn
you scatter perfumes
like a windy night
your kisses are a drug
your mouth the urn
dispensing fear to heroes
fervor to boys
Whether spawned by hell
or sprung from the_stars
Fate like a spaniel
follows at your heel
you sow haphazard
fortune and despair
ruling all things
responsible for none
You walk on corpses
Beauty
undismayed
and Horror coruscates
among your gems
Murder
one of your dearest trinkets
throbs
on your sharneless belly
make it dance!
The pining lover
for his lady swoons
like a dying man
Who cares
if you come
from paradise or hell
appalling Beauty
artless
and monstrous scourge
Come from Satan
come from God
who cares
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