THE GATHERER OF SKYLINES (C) 1972

Poetic proses by REMIL


Remil in a pic of 1977 
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I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to my special friend, Dee, for all the time and patience she willingly spent to correct the english translation of this book.

THE GATHERER OF SKYLINES 



 

When boys and the girls are very young, they often write poems of love. This collection of poetic proses were written when I was around twenty years old . Therefore it doesn't detach itself from all poems that the young of the whole world write.



 
1) Leafy tops of trees
2) Youth 
3) Sea memory
4) It would have been
5) Waiting
6) Old age
7) My thought
8) Short fable
9) Love for silence
10) The path
11) When in evening..
12) The wasted things
13) Nudity
14) Sea shell
15) Good bye
16) Stolen love
17) Your expression
18) June
19) Delusion
20) In the deep eyes of...
21) Flame under snow
22) They said to me
23) Your people
24) Premier amour
25) If this love
26) Life
27) Song of love
28) Silence
29) The lie
30) Like a leaf
31) Night of love
32) You
33) Little painting
34) Moments
35) Over there
36) Love and dread
37) Bird's feather
38) Sweetness of a smile
39) Tomorrow
40) I already know
41) Dawn
42) Fragments of youth
43) What there is in..
44) Friendship
45) October
46) My countryside
47) Don't take notice about me
48) Essence of love
49) Sometimes
50) Smile of baby
51) Veronica
52) Laughing virgin
53) Guitar
54) Barefoot Feet
55) Love for dream
56) Winter
57) Nightmare
58) Music
59) The spring
60) Hope
61) When you dedicate ...
62) the night
63) You could ask me
64) The gatherer of  horizons

LEAFY TOPS OF TREES
 

Leafy tops of trees

and the hair of a woman

dominate from this crude cliff

my glance

that spies

the secrets of the air.

Which secrets does the air

gather and drag

and where does it bring them?

In your eyes

 my little girl

or when they are

next to every man,

prey of dreams and torments?

Just now you can see

my fist that seizes phantoms

in the air

 and the leafy tops

seized by the air

while your hair

in the air

 seems to be

immovable aeriform phantoms

like leafy tops of trees



SEA MEMORY
 

How the sun burned

my shoulders

when prone

I waited,

keeping absorbed,

it sent also

a little burning

to your skin

scented from the saltiness

of my dreams.


IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
 

Looking at you,

would have been

 to take and bring you away:

one act and one time.

It would have been

the end of an instant

in which the hour

had no importance

because the space

was filled with you.

Having you,

would have been

more than everything.

It would have had

 the color of water

and music

of an everlasting  time.

But truth is in the depth of hands

that have dug

the earth of the sun,

and you,

earthly light,

if you had looked at me

my whole lifetime

 would have been

one  act and one time.

It would have been

to go away

and stay  here

in these three dimensions

that wouldn't have been capable

to gather

our small smiles



OLD AGE
 

An old man

sitting on a stool

is  thinking.

What is he thinking?

His lips hold  an old cigar

and they set up in air

a plentiful cloud of smoke

and he keeps smoking

with calmness

and his wish to smoke

doesn't cease,

and he lights another cigar.

An old woman

sings near him

and spins wool

for some child.

Her hand trembles,

her head bends.

She is tired.

She falls asleep.

Now the old man

takes her hand

and her hand closes in his.

They look into

each others eyes.

No one cries

and no one disturbs

either the sun or the wind

and there is music playing

within them

that no one had never felt.

Still they are there

and more time has past.

The old man still smokes

and she spins her wool.

You looked at them

and then you run to him.

You  wanted to know why...

and he kissed you.


SHORT FABLE
 

Short fable

for a child that doesn't sleep,

but then the child falls asleep

and two tears

fall from his mother's eyes.

A woman

 stays awake all night

as a short fable

doesn't let her sleep.



THE PATH
 

You will go on

only if you'll love yourselves.

You will live much longer

than another

that has never loved.

I've been loving you,

now I can also keep

waiting for good rain

that will light of my soul.




THE WASTED THINGS
 

It has already happened

when we thought

 it couldn't.

Oh ...if men could only know

a part of the evil they do

waving only a finger

casually,

absent-mindedly,

in a sign of denial.



" Traces of white salt for a desperate seashell that loves her sea"



THE GOOD BYE
 

A drop of water

out of place

put in a desert to dry.

It isn't worth anything.

Neither for sand,

for  wind..

for  air,

for anyone.



YOUR EXPRESSION
 

Your expression

is the symbol of my life

you have in your hands.

It is the chasm

that kidnaps my soul.

 It is a sad confusion

between hope and certainty

like life with death.

Your expression

is an eternal recall to life

that eludes the last instant

of abandonment.

It is a strange good bye

born in just one moment

in which I wanted to say

I love you.










LIFE

 Flame ready to burn you

if you approach too close

and when you stop for a while,

it dies

and covers you with frost.


SONG OF LOVE

                                                   to F.T.

This wind of anxiety

sharp as prick of a pin

has entered into my body.

Shivers,

memories,

feelings of a past time

made me think back

to my youth.

The hand of time

waved our walls

and that song

  now blended with

happiness and sadness

leaned trembling

on the perfect surface

of your lips.

The new seasons

enfold with silence

all that was  there

and had been abandoned

from our fingers

so  loveless.

The space where our desires moved

haven't forgotten us

and your body

of a young girl

is still close to mine,

tender shrub.

It has been  there

that our hands

sailed interminable spaces

drowning where

 everything creates itself.

It has been there that

you searched my lips

and I tightened you to me

disturbing  the light of a street lamp.

It is a song of love

that wants to cry

of happiness tonight.

We always remain there

 where once

even for an instant

we stopped gathering a flower

wetting all our territory

with the fresh taste

of a kiss born in outskirts

far away from the world

eternal kiss

like this song,

F. . .  love of mine !



LIKE A LEAF

I lose myself in the sea

to drink all the salt.

After,

I love saying,

it is so sweet

like having seen you

yesterday evening,

among the  trees

while you seemed a leaf

the  tenacious wind  of my love

didn't succeed taking it

to me!




YOU

You are a day that doesn't start,

a night that doesn't return to me

and a dawn that lasts always

and never ends !




  OVER THERE

Over there

immovable and irremovable

it remains the sense of your path.

Over there

where yesterday

you didn't find

any place or peace

you have lost

the sense of your road.

You have arrived here

to see the sense of your life

looking where

eyes still are searching.





  BIRD'S FEATHER

It will stay there

that feather of a bird

fallen from the sky,

swaying in the air,

and will never come down.

Before I come home

I will wrest a feather

from a little bird's cage.




TOMORROW

Tomorrow ..

a promise that speaks

'bout uncertainties.

A song of a bird

that seems a moan

for those

who are suffering

and a love song

for those

united in a kiss.




DAWN

It's dawn!

Among these roofs my soul wanders.

Where does it place itself?

It's among these canary's  happy notes

the song finds again

its lost song.

Everything

gets back to its place.

Slowly

a smile

makes the sky

pink.

It's dawn!





FRIENDSHIP




MY COUNTRYSIDE

This is  my countryside

and no one is able to see me

among this grass

that belongs to me

and to no one else.

A sunbeam

joyfully passes through leaves

and reaches me

while laid  on the ground

I keep  waiting for it

to touch my body.

A feather of a bird falls

and  lays

on a branch:

the lowest

of a dumb tree.

This is my countryside

where there is always

a spring that listens at my regrets

and  covers them

with the cloak of the blue sky.





ESSENCE OF LOVE
 

Love and thought

when nothing  and infinite

sit and look

over our frontier,

that one  we  put there

and then removed

just a little while ago,

hidden in the indifference,

laid along different horizons.

Love, thoughts and other things

a firmament of imaginations

and many many things yet

while nothing and infinite

melted between them

mark the exact point of the horizon

over which there is the end

of each beginning.




VERONICA

You turned a normal rainy day

into a happy time

In one instant you fixed

minutes and minutes of silence

gathered slowly by time

tearing a young and fresh dress

colored with ancient colors


You sat down

encircled by blue smoke,

blinding,

imbuing of peace

a man's face

already accustomed to the winter,

only listening to silence's voice.


After you  got up

and danced wildly

a crazy moment

of  crazy love

of young perfume<