Los laberintos
que crea el tiempo,
se desvanecen.

(Sólo queda
el desierto.)

- Federico Garcia Lorca
El mar
sonríe a lo lejos.
Dientes de espuma,
labios de cielo.

- Federico Garcia Lorca
Io amo perché
il mio corpo
è sempre
in evoluzione.

- Alda Merini
Il paradiso non mi piace
perché verosimilmente non ha ossessioni

- Alda Merini
Gusto il peccato como fosse
il principio del benessere

- Alda Merini
Perché questa lentezza del caos?
Perché il verbo non mi avvicina?
Perché non mangio i frammenti di ieri
como se fosse un futuro d'amore?

- Alda Merini
Io ero un albatro grande
e volteggiavo sui mari.
Qualcuno ha fermato il mio viaggio,
senza nessuna carità di suono.
Ma anche distesa per terra
io canto ora per te
le mie canzoni d'amore.

- Alda Merini
Estoy hablando
Rafael Guillen

   Estoy diciendo amor. Una muchacha
parte un bombón de menta con los dientes
y me da la mitad.

   Estoy diciendo vida. Cien mil hombres
quedan roncos gritando
que no ha sido penalty.

   Estoy diciendo madre. Una mujer,
cantándome una copla de otros tiempos,
me limpa las narices mientras lloro.

   Estoy diciendo patria. Un hombre joven
tiene sangre en las manos entreabiertas
y dice que él no ha sido.

   Estoy diciendo muerte. Alguien corre
por las calles desiertas, media noche, 
en busca de un notario.

   Estoy diciendo fe. Un sacerdote
se descubre y eleva a Dios la vista
mientras pasa un entierro de primera.

   Estoy diciendo Dios. Todas las cosas
me miran en silencio.

Love
Robert Creeley

The thing comes
of itself
             (Look up
to see
             the cat & the squirrel,  
                                                         the one
torn, a red thing,
                                 & the other
somehow immaculate
are there some
invulnerabilities too
hard to bear perhaps
the bulletproof vest
stabs itself in secret

- bill knott
At the gym
Mark Doty

This salt-stain spot
marks the place where men
lay down their heads,
back to the bench,

and hoist nothing
that need be lifted
but some burden they've chosen
this time: more reps,

more weight, the upward shove
of it leaving, collectively,
this sign of where we've been:
shroud-stain, negative

flashed onto the vinyl
where we push something
unyielding skyward,
gaining power

at least over flesh,
which goads with desire,
and terrifies with frailty.
Who could say who's

added his heat to the nimbus
of our intent, here where
we made ourselves:
something difficult

lifted, pressed or curled.
Power over beauty,
power over power!
Though there's something more

tender, beneath our vanity,
our will to become objects
of desire: we sweat the mark
of our presence onto the cloth.

Here is some halo
the living made together.
If you love love,
look for yourself.

- Rumi
The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.

How do they learn that?
They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.

- Rumi
Day after day I would climb up to the top floor of the palace and look out over the harbour. Day after day there was no sign. Sometimes there were ships, but never the ship I longed to see.

- Penelope in Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad
para o mundo
que eu quero descer
fetch the bolt cutters
i've been here too long

But I know if I hate you for hating me
I will have entered the endless race

There is
only one
true thing:

in the self
a weight,
a small
stone.

- Paul Klee
Myself,
for instance: an entire dramatic company.

- Paul Klee
sometimes you just have to shrug;
put the record on repeat.

- uyen hua
Sokrates to his lover
Plato

As I kissed Agathon my soul swelled to my lips,
where it hangs, pitiful, hoping to leap across.
I shall love as long as there is breath in me
and care
I say I have been a strong lover

hurt
bitter
and know this

no matter
I shall love

- Sappho
I want to fight you
just as when I am thirsty I want to drink

- Archilochos
Go to the world
Where is it
Go there

- Brenda Hillman
comme au milieu d'un adieu silencieux

I live you so much
- Kevin Young
Early blues
Kevin Young

Once I ordered a pair of shoes
  But they never came.
hell & heal me
- kevin young
Moon has set
and Pleiades: middle
night, the hour goes by,
alone I lie.

- Sappho
I don't know what to do
    two states of mind in me

- Sappho
Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope?

- Jack Gilbert

to love despite and still
- robert graves
I once touched love
it had the bitter taste
of black coffee
it quickened
my heartbeat
crazed
my living body
rocked my senses

- Halina Poswiatowska
I have turned the kettle on to forgetting.

This can't get away from itself to be a thought. It is not
a whistler, it will not whistle when
it's ready.

- Sarah Gridley
I love what I am and hate my love for it.
Is there another way I can create this world?

- Adonis
Why call me man?
That's not my name.
Why bother with identity?
Just say I live
in the closed drum of space.
If you must say something,
say that.

- Adonis
absentminded
our thoughtless days
sat at dire controls
and played indolently

- chinua achebe


Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.

Be a connoisseur,
and taste with caution.

- Rumi
you want the recipe but can't handle my sound
my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
i can teach you –  
i know you ain't used to a female alpha