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An Italian bastinado tanka

AiPiediDellaNotte — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:36:52 +0000

I've written this tanka, inspired by a famous verse of Nobel laureate Salvatore Quasimodo. Unfortunately it's in Italian and I'm not skilled enough to translate it into English. I hope at least some of you may be able to enjoy it anyway. Here it is:

Liberi in aria
danzano piedi nudi:
vista sensuale!
Hanno voglie segrete...
ed è subito frusta.

Going home

slavelless — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 20:33:59 +0000

You returned
to overwrite old memories with new ones
to touch me again without touching me

you made me fly, but you left when I fell
I showed you my fears, you think they are mine
to deal with.
Maybe you still underestimate how
my devotion works and how I can only fly
for you because my feelings never changed
and never will.

we played a favorite song that has long faded away
and I remembered
who I was and who I should have been
for you, for him, for myself.

I can't be who you want me to be
for certain moments frozen in time
Thats not what you taught me, thats not
what makes me bound to your desires.
That's not how both of you formed me.

You just forgot to catch me.

your song

slavelless — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 23:55:44 +0000

after all this time
your song is still strong in me

I've lived a hundred lifes
Loved, lost
Devoted, hurt

But all of them are shaded grey
In memories

Yours is the only light one
Pure sun in my bones
Pure energy in my veins
There is pain. But always joy
In all the pain

And your song still allows me to stay strong
Every day anew.

Thanks for keeping such good care
Of the part of my heart and soul
That will always stay with you.

.....ich wusste das nicht mehr
Aber heut ist es an der Zeit es zu sagen : DANKE!!

ashes to ashes

slavelless — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:17:34 +0000

those dreams...
worthless without you...

wordless Phoenix song strokes my hands
that long to hold you
painless words beat my heart
into oblivion
not sweet. not black...

all memories turned gray without you
all letters burned
all dreams indexed
all touches no more than ashes

from a sun I got too close to.

why couldn't you burn me?

I walk on cold sand and hot glas
I breath open fire and fascination
for others

but in the end, when all walls tumble
all mirrors break
and all masks fail

you can watch my picture burn
slowly falling ashes
a girl high pile

till you return

everlasting eclipse

Desire

slavelless — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:08:02 +0000

I want to tell you so much
about the pain
about 200 strokes
about finding me again
and losing me again
to a hope you once told me about

I want to hear your voice on the phone
telling me to stay calm, to stay strong,
to linger in this feeling
and forget about this fear

the city in the north has captured me again
as has pain, as has devoting
and i want to share this joy as much
as all questions and longings with you
like i always did
from beginning to beginning

from dom to dom
from slave to sub to slave to me
again.

and there are thought

only you will understand
in our nights
during our calls
I miss you

+49, And The World Is Mine...

Daniday — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:46:00 +0000

I saw your voice
I listened to your daring blue eyes
Still the echoes, of my unspoken words, hide angrily, unwillingly
beneath their tranquil disguise

I want to touch you
I want to breathe your soul
But with little clue, of what am I to do, when I break right through
my reality wall

Trust the moment…
Surrender to the unexpected?
Suppress the torment, keep it dormant, and drown within the ecstasy of sin
and all its rays upon you reflected?

My open mystery
Deep I thought were the oceans
Proud the cedar tree, and glorious as can be, but now to me its all history
as you sank me in your devotion

As well, my inspiration
The power of warmth and light
And a river of splendid creation, springs from a striking sensation
hugs the earth in all its might

In a trance we meet
And capture the rhythm together
Entwined by the beat, of this heavenly treat, never wanting to retreat
but to live in dreams forever

For dreams are meant to be
A flash for us to realize
Mine I want to see, dance with reality, where the only captive is me
imprisoned in your eyes

For now my only battle
Is against sleep, trains, and working hours
You know I never settle, not for more nor for little, until I reach your garden
and smell your every flower

The heart now speaks
It gives me a splendid sign
The signals that sneak make me desperate to seek, a new way to the peak
Not just the “+49…”

When, how, where
My state-of-the-art concern
The souls will pair, and that raging flare, will no longer dare
To make me feel its burn?

Tell me...

Try A Little Tenderness

slavelless — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:01:21 +0000

D. - you now this is just your fault:)

Will all the strength in my mind
I could not fight it
not fighting the silence grewing inside me
with every touch
me becoming the slinky woman
you never knew,
being silenced and giving so much.

No need to fight, no need to ask,
no words in the night, that was cold against my
skin burning under your hands
I could not count the hours, not thoughts, nor minutes
that lasted till your first kiss
or me firstly whishing you to kiss me.
I could not think straight and I never tried to

the girl in the mirror had betrayed me
with her cristall blue clear eyes
asking a questions, when all answers were given
My skin being like a book you red with your fingers
finding all secrets, knowing all fears
and taming them all away.

the taming of the shrew must have been close
like i was close to you
in the palm of your hand i found a voice i once
knew. having nothing to say.
but lot of feeling to do.

If you wont take my mind
to capure my soul, listen to my heart under your hand
and witness the extend of pleasure you can gain
by trying a little tenderness.

Yes I know, I can do better - but i need to restart. (so be kind*g*)

Sophia Marikh

morad — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:00:02 +0000

hi , all
I'm realy happy as some of you liked my poem in the topic ( my day dream ) specialy Limun who didn't understand arabic but he liked it anyway and I hope someday I'll write something for him in english or may be in Turkish , but now Iwant to tell you some thing
whie I was watshing T.V ------------ oh I'm sorry I've to complete in Arabic

و انا قاعد بتفرج عالتليفزيون
لقيت اغنية فيها واد مجنون
ماسك واحدة بنت جميلة
و هي بتصرخ في الم وشجون

البنت كانت اخر جمال
لكن الولد ربطها بالحبال
و علق ايديها من فوق دماغها
و هي بتغني بدلع و دلال

اصلها كانت بتحبه
لكن المجنون كان مش عاجبه
كان متغاظ منها و زعلان
و قال دا ذنبها لكن مش ذنبه

جاب كرسي و راح قاعد قدامها
و بحلق فيها من راسها لاقدامها
و هي كانت بتغني
و بترقص له و تهز قوامها

البنت كانت بتحب فيه
جنانه و خيبته و عماص عينيه
و هو حمار مش فاهم حاجة
واد غبي منه فيه

زعق فيها و قال خاينة و غشاشة
راحت ضارباه من جوا الشاشة
و قامت كاسرة العارضة و رايحالة
و قالت له اعقل بقى و لايمها يا باشا

احسن و ديني اطلع عينك
و بسناني اقطع مصارينك
لكن لو قلت انك حبيتني
هاكون خدامتك و ملك يمينك

الواد خاف و حضنها و باسها
و قال انه عشقها هي و ناسها
و انه هايعيش طول عمره فهواها
يراعي شعورها و يقدر احساسها

و عجبي

A Day Dream

morad — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:12:34 +0000

hi , all
when i saw YARA in her new song i liked her very much in her red dress and her sweet cute litt;e barefeet and i felt that she is asking to be punished for leaving the man she loved and i had a day dream and that's what i wrote about my daydream

رأيت في الخيال رؤيا و حلم سعيد
رايتك يا يارا مربوطة بسلاسل فولاذ و حديد
و رجليكي الجميلة عالفلكة بيتمدو
و أنا اللي بمدك ميت جلدة و يتعدو

بسوط من جلد الجمال مجدول
بكتب على رجليكي القصايد بالعرض أو بالطول
و أتمنى ليكي السعادة مهما الفراق بيطول
و رجليكي اللي جمالهم يخطف الأبصار
و هما بيتمدو باحو لي بالأسرار

رجليكي عالفلكة كانت بتتكلم
قالت لي أنا فنشوة مع إني بتألم
و قالت لي هل من مزيد أنا قلبي خلاص سلم
و قالت لي من حلاوة المد دليلي احتار
قلتلها ياريتني افضل امدك يا يارا ليل و نهار

قالت لي انا استاهل لاني كنت غلطانة
بعدت عنك لكني رجعت حافية و ندمانة
وارجوك بدال السوط تجيب لي خرزانة
و تمدني بيها على رجليا زي النار
قلت لها هاتلاقي في كل ضربة لهيب و شرار

قالت ياريتك تاخدي في جزيرة
و عن عيون الناس تبعدني
و اعيش في يمينك اسيرة
دا اجمل شيء يسعدني
و تعلقني فشجر الكافور
و بالكرباج يا مراد تجلدني
قلت لها ياريت فيوم الحلم يصبح حقيقة
قالت لي ساعتها هاكون لك اخلص و اوفى عشيقة

و عجبي

In Heaven There Is No Place For Both Of Us

slavelless — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:16:16 +0000

there is no place for both of us,
in your heaven,
it's filled with desire, with
pleasure, with joy.
with clouds smiling on women
i've never been

So leave me to your hell,
where the clouds are chilled
i never begged for seeing you again
only for enduring your pain

don't ask me how i live without you
always under water, with a needle in
the eye, and a soul deep dry

there is no place for
both of us in your heaven
but in hell life goes on
always sounding the same tune

without it I can't sleep
rolling tears and dreadfull thunder,
my lullaby
the heart finally broken
but the bones
still trying to smile

there is no place for us
but in hell we meet each night
alone.
keeping awake a dream
when the shadow is long gone