diff --git a/writing/poetry/uvaip.md b/writing/poetry/uvaip.md index a9c2bb0a..b4fcd9ba 100644 --- a/writing/poetry/uvaip.md +++ b/writing/poetry/uvaip.md @@ -474,3 +474,22 @@ rosti en la karboj, rondiri ĉiam pli proksime, restadi, restadi ĉiam pli longe... ''' + +----- + +''' +Take in hand the cup and bowl, +hold them to your lips and drink. +In your mouth you hold the coal + that lights the fire to weld the link + to bind, to seal, to ring the brink + and hold the words we've said in sync + despite the lack of pen, of ink. +Take in hand the sword and staff, +hold them to the sun and speak +words to form an epigraph: + no need to trawl the waves and seek + for knowledge of what makes us weak; + there's time enough that we bespeak + that no two hearts can be unique. +'''