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Faust

Fri Aug 10, 2007, 10:51 PM
I wrote this about 1991-92 and it was published in "The Hollins Critic" in February, 1992. It has always been my favorite work of my own poetry and seems to effect a lot of people profoundly. It took about eight straight hours of alternately lying on my sofa and pacing about in my living room before I finished it. I feel lucky to have completed it in such a short time. It is entitled "Faust".



Quiet

All is damnably quiet.

I can hear the spiders spinning in the darkness.
the breath of a rat against the stone walls,
a cockroach crawling through the sulphur-laden air.
The roaring silence fills the air like the grumble of the sea.

Pitiless eternity.

But a second ago he was here,
he whose eyes glowed like falling stars in bottomless pools,
he with the comforting voice of the practiced whore.
My wounds still bleed, my sleeves are still wet.
The rats have yet to smell the droplets on the floor.

For what have I been sold?
Square roots? Sines? Sums?
Will I profit knowing winds are not the breath of God?
knowing the sun is not a chariot of fire?
knowing mountains are not the bones of giants?
knowing why the sound of pouring wine tickles the ear?
why lovers' eyes sparkle as purest silver?
why cool grass and shade bring easy sleep?

Did Da Vinci paint with a carpenter's angle?
Michaelangelo sculpt with a plumb?

I will be reduced to monotonous lectures and boring sums.
And should I escape eternal hell
I nonetheless lose my soul.

  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: Amy Winehouse
  • Reading: Brave New World
  • Watching: Copying Beethoven
  • Playing: Age of Empires: the Age of Kings
  • Eating: not as healthy as I should
  • Drinking: vodka

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  • Favourite game: Age of Empires: Age of Kings; Medal of Honor
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  • Personal Quote: "The mind is a universe, and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." John Milton

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Sorry for the late reply..

But Thank you so much for the +fav on "Immortal Life"!!
:heart: --Gretch

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thank u sweetie :kiss:
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thanks for the fav dude [link] :D

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Hi

Thank you so much for the support :heart:

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