one more time

[dancingyel]

i know i've posted this before, but i've been re-reading it and realizing every time just how much i relate to this poem, and just how gorgeous it is. so, i'm re-posting it for any of my friends who may have missed it the first time. the parts in bold are the ones i like best. oh, and it's by viggo mortensen, for those who don't know from my insane ramblings. btw, sorry for the slew of entries...i haven't written in a while, and it was all building up and now i need to get it all out.

COMMUNION

1.
We’ve left shore somehow
Become the friends
Of early theory
Close enough to speak
Desire and pain of absence
Of mistakes we’d make
Given the chance.


Each smile returned
Makes harder avoiding
Dreams that see us
Lying in early evening
Curtain shadows, skin
Safe against skin.
Bloom of compassion
Respect for moments
Eyes lock turns
Forever into one more
Veil that falls away.


2.
This after seeing you
Last night, first time
Smelling you with
Permission: shoulders to
Wonder openly at
As carefully kissed
As those arms
Waited impossibly on.
They’ve held me now
And your breath
Down my back
Sent away night air
That had me shaking
In the unlit Anglican
Doorway.


3.
Are we ruined for
Finding our faces fit
And want to know more
About morning? Is
Friendship cancelled
If we can’t call
Each other anymore
In amnesia, invite
Ourselves to last glances
Under suspicious clocks
Telling us when we’ve
Had enough?


4.
Your steady hands
Cradling my grateful
Skull: were you taking
In my face to
Save an image
You’ve rarely allowed
Yourself after leaving
That cold alcove?
Am I a photograph
You gaze at in
Moments of weakness?


You ordered me
Off my knees
Into your arms.
Wasn’t to beg
That I knelt; only
To see you once
From below.


Tried to say something
That filled my mouth
And longed to rest
In your ear.
Don’t dare write
It down for fear it’ll
Become words, just
Words.


heh...i realized that i bolded almost the whole poem. shows you how i feel about it, doesn't it. comment, people! tell me what you think about it...or about anything...just leave comments! thanks! =)

Comments

[fireopal.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this poem before and I like it a lot. My favorite is the very last stanza. Actually the last two stanzas. Hmm, I'm starting to understand why you ended up bolding almost the entire thing =P. I didn't expect the part you bolded in the second to last stanza, and made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, sort of happy and sad at the same time. And the last stanza I feel like I can relate to- knowing that once I say things they will just be words, and thinking about how words can actually detract from meaning sometimes, even though most of the time they help us get across what we're trying to say.

ps- since you reminded me about Halleluia I started listening to it again, and then it was stuck in my head today, and then I heard someone playing it on the piano downstairs when I went to do my laundry, and it was all very cool because I hadn't thought of that song forever and now it's popping up all over!

yay! a comment!

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

this whole poem makes me feel happy and sad at the same time...it feels like he's so happy about this person, but full of doubt at the same time. and yeah, sometimes writing words down makes them less personal...also, sometimes it's scary to write something down because it's not nearly as beautiful when it's out of my head, you know?

i think it's great that "hallelujah" is showing up everywhere! that's a really good song. it makes me cry every time, but i love it nonetheless.

mmmmmmmmmmmm...

[waccoonie71.livejournal.com]

let's all purr together and marvel at viggo mortensen's sheer genius...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

love it love it love it!!!! esp. parts 2&4...i so identify with it, except maybe the anglican doorway ^___^;;

yay! another comment! heh

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

yes. ignore the anglican doorway.