naked
While they're here I hold them
like my breath.
They deepen the sky
like blood in my body,
I'm glad to offer
my body like this -- a small craft
over fields of water, where light can fall, be lost, be caught,
be held.
I'm naked in my chair,
facing the window.
If I were outside I'd want to look up
and see someone naked in every window.
I think we need
the difficult river, we need the absence of tenderness
so love can come like shooting stars
if it comes.
Ruth L. Schwartz
from Dear Good Naked Morning C 2005 Ruth L. Schwartz
Labels: carl larsson, georg tappert, ishikawa toraji, poetry, ruth l schwartz, tobari kogan, vallotton
16 Comments:
A beautiful wedding of music and images. Auguri.
Heureuse année à vous...
and all thanks to you, willym, that you can experience both at the same time. really.
and now you have taught me something else. auguri to you as well.
et bonjour, une ville un poeme-- merci, et la meme a vous!
I'd been contemplating (more like wrestling) with the idea of getting back to pen & ink with color in it...but wasn't quite sure how I'd go about it...this post gives me ideas...thank you. As always...I stop by & there are treasures just waiting to inspire...
well that is really cool! thanks evan. i just came across some work today that i'll try to work into a post soon -- more inspiration for ya!
this is simply fabulous. no other words for it, no other words needed.
and inspiring for pictures too :-) I might be posting something like this soon...
it just occurs to me that if the images in this blog act as inspiration to anyone, they are again fulfilling a role they have in the past.
thanks, roxy.
Such beauty, such beauty.
and I was indeed inspired by it, I posted accordingly :-) I couldn't come up with an english poem as beuatiful as this here, so I had to go back to my old love, japanese women poets...
I just discovered your beautiful blog via "the floating bridge of dreams". I'm adding you to my favorite blogs :)
Michiko
A wonderful collection of images as always. Being naked is freedom (and swimming naked is the absolute freedom!), but this is not quite the right time in France at the moment, it's freezing cold down here! Oops, forgot to tell you: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
oh thank you so much, mary-laure, and welcome
merci, roxie, mon amie (or is that ma amie?)
thank you so much, michiko, and welcome to you too!
so nice to see you, lasourceauxbois -- and happy now year to you as well.
i love your comment so much.
yes, it's quite cold here now as well-- my pond froze!
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