Four short poems
i.
Words and idioms –
stones skimmed across
the lake of the mind.
ii.
His mind, like a gazelle,
leaps nimbly between ideas.
iii.
He returns to what will outlast him:
the shadowed outline
of a mountain;
the surf’s insistent refrain;
the stars bedded in their dark quilt
above the Atlantic.
iv.
He is drawn to the idea of the beloved.
That day – if it comes –
when the pull of such a notion
becomes more than an idea.
- Eduard Burle
i.
Words and idioms –
stones skimmed across
the lake of the mind.
ii.
His mind, like a gazelle,
leaps nimbly between ideas.
iii.
He returns to what will outlast him:
the shadowed outline
of a mountain;
the surf’s insistent refrain;
the stars bedded in their dark quilt
above the Atlantic.
iv.
He is drawn to the idea of the beloved.
That day – if it comes –
when the pull of such a notion
becomes more than an idea.
- Eduard Burle