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VNV Nation - Carbon

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You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you’re merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that’s always easiest.

— John Berryman

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Jauns Mēness - Vai

Ja reiz mani aizviltu kāds burvis prom un noburtu
Par vilku vai vanagu, vai rudens vējā pārvērstu,
Vai Tu mani, tad atpazītu,
Vai slieksnim pāri aicinātu?

Ja reiz mani aizviltu kāds burvis prom un noburtu
Par zalkti vai ķirzaku, vai kailsalā pārvērstu,
Vai Tu mani, tad atpazītu,
Vai slieksnim pāri aicinātu?
Vai sevīm līdzās guldītu?

Melnupīte, straujupīte
Deviņīem(i) līkumiem(i)
Devītā(i) līkumā(i)
Dzīvu nesa dvēselīti

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I’m going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.

— E. D. W.