poem: last Sunday

poem: last Sunday

A Chapter by Marie Anzalone

I saw you clearly tomorrow,

and I will search for you yesterday-

this. This is trying to find

Neptune colored ethics

in a world that is just learning

of the full spectrum of gray.

 

When a man admires a woman,

he praises her beauty. What

recourse is for woman? There

is no measured “goodness”

equivalent, for defining a man.

 

Only to see the way light hits

the water at full midnight, when

boundaries between whatifs

dissolve in a soft closely draped fog

I wear like a garment I can hold tight 

 

with one hand, or let fall as needed.

When I sit quietly, I remember

a future with you; and if I look

real carefully at the horizon, all

possibilities remain with the arrival

of each last Sunday of the past decade.

 



© 2015 Marie Anzalone


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I would find it in his tenderness, kindness, instinctive knowing of what a woman needs, I would define it in the essence of "safety, know without a doubt your heart , mind, body and soul" are in good hands, trust, the definition of a beautiful man at his most godly form, would be a man in love that fully trusts, one that lays his head on your heart and listens to the beat with rapture.

Posted 9 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

9 Years Ago

yes.. yes to all of these things, Corset. No drama. Just a quiet recognition. Isn't that when we kno.. read more
Corset

9 Years Ago

I'd say so , yes.



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"When a man admires a woman, he praises her beauty... " How true... yes, he even finds tender taste of love & the simplicity of bliss inside her spirit... which makes him adoring her deeply... with words.. through muse. Nice flow of ink.

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

'.. when boundaries between whatifs .. .. dissolve .. '

Retrospective emotions writ here, gently, urgently, utterly personal. Your words - as so often, are beautiful.

If Love within and all around, perhaps there's no real need for defining what the man is, a woman just knows.. her mind, her heart, her all recognises that something whether past, present, future or all time. Maybe.

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

9 Years Ago

thank you so very much, dear emma. In response to thebeautiful ponderings that you bring to the surf.. read more
That he can see who and what you are perhaps? If I said I knew I would be lying and trying to hard. Perhpas it is obvious. I only know that beauty is not on the surface' whatever the sex. If that is not too much of a truism. More to this than that just as there is more to you. And perhaps some men.

Posted 9 Years Ago


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Marie Anzalone

9 Years Ago

You nailed it- the person who sees me. I have been pondering this truth for weeks. There is always m.. read more
oh, yes

this is perfection

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

9 Years Ago

we are all works of art, in constant state of completion
does a man see a woman as a woman sees a man... very good question, are women intuitively smarter than men, and so a mans glib answers of beauty, sexy, base love, seem pathetic to a woman/ are there men who can see beyond what men see? I would hope so.

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

I would find it in his tenderness, kindness, instinctive knowing of what a woman needs, I would define it in the essence of "safety, know without a doubt your heart , mind, body and soul" are in good hands, trust, the definition of a beautiful man at his most godly form, would be a man in love that fully trusts, one that lays his head on your heart and listens to the beat with rapture.

Posted 9 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

9 Years Ago

yes.. yes to all of these things, Corset. No drama. Just a quiet recognition. Isn't that when we kno.. read more
Corset

9 Years Ago

I'd say so , yes.
The first two stanzas are marvelously insightful, just brilliant in design and execution. The piece as a whole is wistful, a soft lament, if that makes any sense. What it is, unquestionably, is remarkable, top-shelf stuff all the way.

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.


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Marie Anzalone
Marie Anzalone

Xecaracoj, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala



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Bilingual (English and Spanish) poet, essayist, novelist, grant writer, editor, and technical writer working in Central America. "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to ta.. more..

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