Member: itsamekatrina

I love to read erotic too, but I really love a prefer the erotica that has a love story and passion in it. I just preview a few of julia templeton books on google and they are so great. I can't wait to read them. I am on paperbackswap, bookmouch and swaptree and noone has those books do you have books by those arthurs

posted by shanika at 1:35 am (EST) on May 25, 2009

THE MAN WATCHING



I can tell by the way the trees beat, after

So many dull days, on my worried windowpanes

That a storm is coming,

And I hear the far-off fields say things

I can't bear without a friend,

I can't love without a sister.

The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on

Across the woods and across time,

And the world looks as if it had no age;

The landscape, like a line in the psalm book,

Is seriousness and weight and eternity.

What we choose to fight is so tiny!

What fights with us is so great!

If only we would let ourselves be dominated

As things do by some immense storm,

We would become strong too, and not need names.

When we win it's with small things,

And the triumph itself makes us small.

What is extraordinary and eternal

Does not want to be bent by us.

I mean the Angel who appeared

To the wrestlers of the Old Testament:

When the wrestlers' sinews

Grew long like metal strings,

He felt them under his fingers

Like chords of deep music.

Whoever was beaten by this Angel

(who often simply declined the fight)

Went away proud and strengthened

And great from that harsh hand,

That kneaded him as if to changes his shape.

Winning does not tempt that man.

This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively,

By constantly greater beings.



--Rilke (trans by Robert Bly)

posted by theoldman at 8:02 am (EST) on Apr 11, 2009