Trying to find this poem

[LianaLi]

I ever only saw it once, and immediately copied it down into my files for posterity. It being that I have not transfered all my old writing files onto my new computer, I don't have the snatch of poem anymore. I think it was attributed to Russo, but my searches have been futile at trying to find out who it was. All I remember was that it was about love, and the quintessential question: is it worth it? The line that I do remember is:

"One more world lost, one more heaven gained."

On the subject of quotes and poems that I'm sorry to have lost is this other one comparing the color of roses to true love. The end stanza goes something like this:

"But the rose that I give you is white kiss with red
For the love that is truest and sweetest
Bears the kiss of passion on the tips"

[Petra]

It's a song by Van Der Graaf Generator called La Rossa, from their Still Life album (http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Van_Der_Graaf_Generator/Still_Life/La_Rossa/68518.html).


Lacking sleep and food and vision
here I am again, encamped upon you
floor, craving sanctuary and
nourishment, encouragement and
sanctity and more.
The streets seemed very crowded,
I put on my bravest guide -
I know you know that I am acting,
I can see it in your eyes.
In the harsh light of freedom I know
that I cannot deny that I have wasted
time, have frittered it away in idle boasts
of my freedom and idelity, when simpler
words would have profited the most...
... it isn't enough in the end, when I'm
looking for hope.
Through the organ-monkey screams as the
pipes begin to spit
still he'll go through the dance routines
just as long as he thinks they'll fit,
just as long as he knows that it's dance,
smile - or quit.

Like a monkey I dance to a strange tune
when all of those years I've longed to lie
with you but have bogged myself down in
the web of talk, quack philosophy
and sophistry -
at physically I've always baulked, like the
man in the chair who believes it's beyond
him to walk.
I've been hiding behind words,
fearing a deeper flame exists,
faintly aware of the passage
of opportunities I have missed,
Vut the nearness and the smell of you,
La Rossa from head to toe...
I don't know what I'm telling you,
but I think you ought to know
soon the dam wall will break, soon the
water will flow.
Though the organ-monkey groans
as the organ-grinder plays
he's hoping, at the most,
for an end to the dancing days;
still, he hops up and down on his perch
in th usual jerky way.
Though it might mean an end to all
friendship there's something
I'm working up to say.

Think of me what you will;
I know that you think you feel my pain-
no matter if that's just the surface.
If we made love now would that change
all that has gone before?
Of course it would, there's no way it could
ever be the same...
one more line crossed,
one more mystery excplained.
Now I need more than just words, though
the options are plain that lead from all
momentary action.
I we make love now it will change all that
is yeat to be...
never could we agree in the same
way again.
One more world lost,
one more heaven gained.

Ls Rossa, you know me, you read me as
though I am glass;
though I know it there's no way in which I can pass -
though it means that you'll finish my story
at last I'd trade all the clever talk,
the joking, the smoking and the quips,
all the midnight conversation, all the
friendship, all the words and all the trips
for the warmth of your body,
the more vivid touch of your lips.
All bridges burning behind me,
all safety beyond reach,
the monkey feels his chains out blindly,
only to find himself released.
Take me, take me now and hold me deep
inside your ocean bodym
wash me as some flotsam to the shore,
there leave me lying evermore!
Drown me, drown me now and hold me
down before your naked hunger,
burn me at the altar of the night -
give me life!

[beyelzu]

http://www.sk4p.net/vdgg/still.shtml

google puts this here as a song lyric.

[Petra]

Fuck we're good, beyelzu! :cool:

[beyelzu]

damn you luna, with your quick posting action. :D :shakefist:

[beyelzu]

Fuck we're good, beyelzu! :cool:
youre a minute better as it turns out
:D

[Petra]

:wink:



:nail:

[LianaLi]

Y'all rock. Now to find that other poem/quote. I know I used it in a card to an exboyfriend. Hence why it's gone. I haven't a freaking clue where I found that one. It's not in any of the current quote books in my possession.

[Petra]

Is this it:

A White Rose
by J B O'Reilly

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But I send you a cream-white rosebud
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

[LianaLi]

:appl: You rock. I never knew the full poem.

[beyelzu]

she might rock, but luna couldnt find shit by alix olsin online. :D


hell, she had to deal with the devil to get a few songs by that artist.

[Petra]

she might rock, but luna couldnt find shit by alix olsin online. :D


hell, she had to deal with the devil to get a few songs by that artist.

Smartarse.

Anyway, me'n'the devil are mates, so no sweat. :D

[LianaLi]

I'd deal with the devil, because he knows the best techniques man..... especially if I could hear that song, since I already liked the lyrics. Something tells me this is going to be like hearing Lorena McKennit's version of "The Highwayman." The first time I heard it, was in a competition for poetry recitial. I fell in love with the words and the rhythmn of them then, and hated Lorena's version when I heard it years later.

[Petra]

:appl: You rock.

I know, I know...


:bowing:

[Petra]

I'd deal with the devil, because he knows the best techniques man..... especially if I could hear that song, since I already liked the lyrics.

Van Der Graaf Generator have a unique sound. They're kinda like Rush on helium and acid. They're an acquired taste, to be sure.

[beyelzu]

she might rock, but luna couldnt find shit by alix olsin online. :D


hell, she had to deal with the devil to get a few songs by that artist.

Smartarse.

Anyway, me'n'the devil are mates, so no sweat. :D
I can really feel the love when you say smartarse.


by the way, do you actually say arse?

[beyelzu]

I'd deal with the devil, because he knows the best techniques man..... especially if I could hear that song, since I already liked the lyrics.

Van Der Graaf Generator have a unique sound. They're kinda like Rush on helium and acid. They're an acquired taste, to be sure.
I think I am going to download them now, I want to see what rush on helium and acid sounds like.

[Petra]

I can really feel the love when you say smartarse.

That'll be because I say it so lovingly. :)


by the way, do you actually say arse?

yep. But it sounds more like "ahhhse", no rolled 'r'.

If we could upload small sound files, I'd record me saying it for y'all. :D

[livius drusus]

wav file upload enabled. Get babbling. :singing:

[Petra]

LOL!

I'll get a mic hooked up tomorrow so that I may call beyelzu a smartarse in my poshest voice.

"smahht-ahhse"

:cool:

[beyelzu]

cool.

[beyelzu]

wav file upload enabled. Get babbling. :singing:
you know you rock, liv.


I love how you tweak the forum for all of us.

[Petra]

wav file upload enabled. Get babbling. :singing:
you know you rock, liv.


I love how you tweak the forum for all of us.

Ditto. :bow:


Incidentally, my mic doesan't work anymore, so you'll have to wait till I can get a new one. Sorry 'bout that. :doh:

[livius drusus]

Oh wow. I hadn't seen y'all's posts to this thread after I enabled the wav file attachments. Thank you kindly for the props, bey and luna. :grouphug:

P.S. - Get another mic pronto, luna.

[Petra]

:grouphug:

Back at'cha. :)

P.S. - Get another mic pronto, luna.

You have to wait a week. I don't have two cents to rub together for the next few days. :blush: