THAT IS ENOUGH
You built a house, and then you do indulge
In your philosophy without restraint;
Enough of this, for now its bricks complain,
And would have you replace them, their complaint.
**
THEY HAVE TOLD ME
They have told me the stories that would make
A boy go grey, how you have simply sent
All men in town astray, when you returned,
And then divided hours, your body lent.
**
MY LOVE
Surely you were afraid of all my love
Which does not tolerate, can reprimand;
My love is fire, madness, dangerous,
For my heart’s love is missing, understand.
**
BEWARE
Do not advise your brother, understand,
In lands where bitterness and sweetness taste
The same, and do not lend your hand to save
Him, Let him sink, though fretting for his waste.
**
A BOAT
God gave me gifts, and then He said to me,
“Your poetry comes through my hand, you float
Though planted on a hill, for I pushed you
And drove you through the sea just like a boat.
**
IGNORANT
Now all of you are writers in exile
And teachers longing for authority,
You fail in tests, cannot with any ease
Dictate a letter in reality.
**
DO NOT WISH ME WELL
Do not now wish me well, for I do not
Desire such, your gifts well coloured then
A thousand times. For costs just send a cheque
To my land crucified out there by men.
**
A NECK AND A CHEEK
Whenever I smell roses I then find
Their fragrance disappears with every smell,
But if I smell a neck or even cheek
The fragrance will remain, I have to tell.
**
You built a house, and then you do indulge
In your philosophy without restraint;
Enough of this, for now its bricks complain,
And would have you replace them, their complaint.
**
THEY HAVE TOLD ME
They have told me the stories that would make
A boy go grey, how you have simply sent
All men in town astray, when you returned,
And then divided hours, your body lent.
**
MY LOVE
Surely you were afraid of all my love
Which does not tolerate, can reprimand;
My love is fire, madness, dangerous,
For my heart’s love is missing, understand.
**
BEWARE
Do not advise your brother, understand,
In lands where bitterness and sweetness taste
The same, and do not lend your hand to save
Him, Let him sink, though fretting for his waste.
**
A BOAT
God gave me gifts, and then He said to me,
“Your poetry comes through my hand, you float
Though planted on a hill, for I pushed you
And drove you through the sea just like a boat.
**
IGNORANT
Now all of you are writers in exile
And teachers longing for authority,
You fail in tests, cannot with any ease
Dictate a letter in reality.
**
DO NOT WISH ME WELL
Do not now wish me well, for I do not
Desire such, your gifts well coloured then
A thousand times. For costs just send a cheque
To my land crucified out there by men.
**
A NECK AND A CHEEK
Whenever I smell roses I then find
Their fragrance disappears with every smell,
But if I smell a neck or even cheek
The fragrance will remain, I have to tell.
**
