Showing posts with label Metaphors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metaphors. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

DEAR OAK

DEAR OAK



Old and living, so huge and strong, so beautiful and lush

You are  the comfort of my empty afternoons 
You are my eternal confidant 
I would like to understand your language. 

Let me know your age.

Your enormous figure of rough bark 
and hurt kept secrets, signs of love saves, 
is home to insects, bird's nest 

Beauty is eternal always inhabited the house, 
always accessedi wish you could to talk to me, 
and  confess  me everything you've seen 

from the beginning of your life.

Sometimes I wish to join my life to yours 

and thus form part of your immortality 
and die only when you're cut.
Always be immortal, my dear oak.

I'll always be by your side.



JANUS


Translation in english of:



This poem talks about a robust oak, the author describes it as huge, strong, beautiful, lush, enormous and even eternal. At the same time the author highlights the fragility of the oak and how all this could be gone if he was cut down. 


FRAGILE. DO NOT SHAKE.

FRAGILE. DO NOT SHAKE.

My heart is fragile,
It's easy to break.
So handle it carefully,
And do not shake.

Once it is broken,
It takes a while to heal.
And the pain is visible,
It's hard to conceal.
Even when healed,
The scars still show.
A little thing like a word,
Can be a huge blow.

So please be gentle,
When you handle my heart.
Don't come along and break it,
And then depart.




http://hubpages.com/hub/Poem-FRAGILE


In this poem the author compraes the heart to a fragile object that has to be handled with care. For us the heart represents both of our words very well, because eventhough the "physical heart" it is the strongest muscle in the human body responsible for the human life, the "emotional heart" can be easily harmed.