Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FRIEND'S PLEADING WORDS TO ANOTHER, by SANDOR CSOORI


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A FRIEND'S PLEADING WORDS TO ANOTHER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you should lose me
Last Line: I may be the eyeball amplifying the drippings of the sap.
Variant Title(s): A Friend's Pleading Words To A Second Person
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Nature; Reunions; Dead, The; Burials


Before you should lose me
and cover me forever with loamy earth,
seek a pleasant, blessed day,
a pleasant day that lasts from morning to dusk:
draw me from the bedchambers of anger into your Pentecostal fields,
draw me from the scenes of deceitful games and the usual bloodsheds
into the thistles,
let my troubles gurgle in the sky's dikes,
and let me eat wild sorrel, not meat, that day,
and cherries and air,
and let the birds drum on black bark again;
my eardrum wants to rejoice,
my eye wants to shine through sealed pheasant eggs,
for even though I love your houses that lean against the sky,
your lamps that move in the dark, drifting away
like motorboats,
my life will end there, where the locust leaves
lie on the ground,
the ant forecasts earthquakes
and, dipped in the forest at the village fringe, I may belong to the wild again,
I may be the eyeball amplifying the drippings of the sap.





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