sail!
sail: do you have a favorite poem?
Nikos Kavvadias, Letter to the Poet Caesar EmmanuelCeasar, compared to a death in a bedroom,Compared to an earthen, mundane grave,Would it not be more poetic and beautiful,The translucent depth of the sea and the wild wave?Words grand, poetic, unrealised,Words common, hollow, “smoke and ashes”,That, as you read them, might make you pity me,Laughing and shaking your head.My sole request, though, would be,My verses not to mock.And as I for a brother have prayed,So I ask that you pray for a madman.
John Crowe Ransom, The Equilibrists
Equilibrists lie here; stranger, tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips arid ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful.
Takis Sinopoulos, The Burning Man
Don't get entangled with unknown fire,they told me.But he was burning alone. All alone.And as he was disappearing, his face lightened.He was becoming the sun.In our times like in past eras,others are in the fire burning and others are clapping their hands amused.
