Friday, December 11, 2009

As you sleep

As you sleep, I'll shake
my heart out wide
and throw it over you.
Tuck it in at the corners.
Posted by at 6:12 am
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14 comments:

herhimnbryn said...

Lucy, you have done it again. This is so touching.

I have been saving 'sleep' quotes to embroider on a bedroom curtain. Lucy, can I save this too? Would you mind?

11:01 am
The Crow said...

This is the best lullaby I've ever read. Comforting even for those for whom it was not written.

:)

12:08 pm
Bee said...

A thought so simply and beautifully put into words.

12:43 pm
Rouchswalwe said...

Sparse. Yet full. Broad. Yet deep. Wonderful!

2:40 pm
Julia said...

Really gorgeous. I'm imagining it on that curtain now too. May I use it for a song?

2:41 pm
Lucy said...

You are all lovely. Anyone may use it for anything they like and I would be deeply honoured.

Have you not heard of the second person blogular?! Yes, poems may be written to certain people, but the act of posting/publishing, makes them belong to all...

3:01 pm
Dale said...

That's lovely. Just a hint of sadness and sacrifice behind the sweetness.

3:36 pm
Unknown said...

The sight of someone sleeping nearly always evokes tenderness especally if he or she is loved and not snoring.

6:21 pm
christopher said...

Lucy, this just points out the perfection of the small poems. Yes indeed, what they all said. I agree. And what you said too, about second person blogular. I mean my stuff that way too, am most pleased when my readers tend to take my poems personally.

I want to believe that we can make a difference with each other, that life can become more meaningful, that this is not just a game and a time waster. I am sure on my best days that this global engagement across the web is important and personal.

And word verification says to me:
disicat
I presume that distinct from
daticat
meaning the cat who is near rather than the cat who is farther away.

7:36 pm
HLiza said...

Now that really soothes me..

10:29 pm
Lucy said...

Now, what would you say after all that if I were to tell you it was about Molly? ;~)

Plutarch - yes, not snoring is something of a prerequisite, though in fact Molly snores and I find it most endearing... dogs must snore on a different frequency from humans.

Christopher - I thought of your 'you' which seems to knock at heaven's gate... and I love disicat and daticat.

Hliza - lovely to see you,glad you liked it.

10:57 pm
tristan said...

instantly quotable ... bravo !!!

1:23 pm
The romantic query letter and the happy-ever-after said...

There is something for it I think those word long spoken by another. 'Love is a many splendored thing,' and of it your words are one.
Warmest regards,
Simone.

4:57 am
leslee said...

Having had the sweetest dog companion myself, I would not find this poem at all odd to be addressed to Molly! It is lovely.

1:59 am

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