Blame it on the poet Anthony Wilson

July 12, 2013

Blame it on the poet Anthony Wilson

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by Stan Faryna

Stan Faryna

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Haddaway, What is Love

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Blame it on the poet Anthony Wilson. He writes in his blog, today, about Love. Holub’s Love. Read it here: Falling in love with Holub’s Love.

Anthony’s blog post and Miroslav Holub’s poem (that Anthony shares with us) inspired me to look again at a poor attempt I made many years ago – a poor attempt to reflect on Love. To live up to Love. To drink upon stars.

And looking, I smiled, because there is some good advice in that mess. And, ironically, I cannot count the times when such seemingly sound advice was unheeded. In friendship. In romance. In faith. In pursuing, perfection – whatever that means.

And that is what I want to share with you, today. Laugh (or smile) with me at my own chagrin. And TRY, try, please try… not to take the foolish half steps that I keep on doing!

Thank you, Anthony.

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Drink upon the stars

by Stan Faryna

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As far away as the stars

sparkling like champagne bubbles
above lonely country lanes.
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As close as a flame’s lick
that promises to consume
an eager moth – instantly.
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As sweet as Casablanca –
fragrant lilium beckons
us like the Lotus eaters
of Homer.
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Like a grassy
path in want of wear –
some warn it’s runs the minefields.
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Love!
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Dares us to walk barefooted
across the broken bottles
of our reckless, past license
and hot, spent cigarette butts.
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Our demons, tall as mountains,
may hide behind blades of grass
but the feet that run, fleetly,
naked, innocent, fly freely…
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Oh – how they fly!
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Untorn.
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Half steps, however, break hearts
as easily as shale cliffs
crumble under a foolish foot.
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Love?
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How often have foolish feet
carried me by the half steps
across the slippery slopes
of pride and ingratitude,
down the broken, rocky lanes
that terminate abruptly?
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If love is a fearless path…
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If love is a fearless path,
let us go there, fearlessly!
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Let us drink upon the stars.
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Love!!!
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Stan Faryna
12 July 2013
Fairfax, Virginia

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