Today's Beautiful Gem: `Shut Up!' by the French
poetess Marguerite
Burnat-Provins (1872-1952), translated by Cassia Berman.
"You told me: `I am not worthy of you.' And you hid your
face from me.
But my kiss found it, and slipped lightly over your sweet golden
temples
where magic lies asleep.
What do you know about yourself? Nothing.
You know nothing of the charm and freshness that play around your
beauty.
You know nothing of your laughter, similar to that of fountains.
You've never seen that shining nimbus that circles your head
during times
I wish were fatal, they give me so much happiness.
You've never seen your eyes where the whole sky catches fire and
dies
in the pleasure of my caresses.
You don't hear the words which dissolve my soul and lead it
toward paradise.
You don't know anything, so shut up."
Om s'aantih: Peace! - J. K. Mohana Rao
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