Showing posts with label Sweet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweet. Show all posts

Thursday

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint

Eye Catching by Pika Chakula
Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.

I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.

If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone are my master,

never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.

~  Federico García Lorca

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint

Eye Catching by Pika Chakula
Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.

I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.

If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone are my master,

never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.

~  Federico García Lorca