Sharing my favourite poem, framed and put in my living room "The mountain" by Laura Ding-Edwards
31-35, F
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PhoenixPhail · M
That's a great one. Thank you for sharing.
I'll share my favourite poem with you...
I'll share my favourite poem with you...
TIRED OF SPEAKING SWEETLY
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.
Hafiz
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.
Hafiz
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@PhoenixPhail I thought it was interesting but a little hard for me to translate. Is it about helping your partner out of their demons?
PhoenixPhail · M
@Queendragonfly No, it's not about that. For me, it's about people being caught up in their replacement lives and their unwillingness to allow themselves to come into alignment with who they truly are.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@PhoenixPhail Ohh okay.
Mindful · 56-60, F
@PhoenixPhail sadly this sounds like is domestic abuse… when a man (or woman) says they love someone, but these are the actions that represent their version of love— and if he is going to add alcohol to the mix— you better not stick around. And there’s a little bit of play on the sense that there is no God that would allow someone to be locked into a room or relationship like this..and you’re crazy for believing in God it’s tragic reality for some. It would require a special reader to have the right affect