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A review by sidrajaved
River of Stars: Selected Poems by Keiko Matsui Gibson, Sam Hamill, Akiko Yosano
4.25
!!!! favourite poems:
Like a summer flower,
fragile as its slender stem,
love wastes me away.
Yet I shall blossom, crimson
under the bright noonday sun.
Agreed, we have
no talent for poetry.
We smile. This love
will last twenty thousand years.
Is that a long time or brief?
Friends, please don’t ask
whatever remains of love.
And don’t preach to me.
Let our poetry endure.
It is the cross we bear.
My shiny black hair
fallen into disarray,
a thousand tangles,
like a thousand tangled thoughts
about my love for you.
Like a summer flower,
fragile as its slender stem,
love wastes me away.
Yet I shall blossom, crimson
under the bright noonday sun.
Agreed, we have
no talent for poetry.
We smile. This love
will last twenty thousand years.
Is that a long time or brief?
Friends, please don’t ask
whatever remains of love.
And don’t preach to me.
Let our poetry endure.
It is the cross we bear.
My shiny black hair
fallen into disarray,
a thousand tangles,
like a thousand tangled thoughts
about my love for you.