PAIK ASSOCIATES architecture
. Taeho Paik . POEMS .

A Moonlight Serenade


Like the green grey marbles in the temple
Your eyes look at the lands in sheer wonder
You being here so near still makes me tremble
Like the water of a moonlit river
The simple flitter of light and shadow
Has moved great hearts and minds to consider
How the divine in places high and low
Caress those moments of nature's preludes
To its noblest aims in ways we would know
That all amorous acts and words are the clues
Of how ancient particles were arranged
To render virtues in the shapes of nudes
In the way they were born ever unchanged
Fecund in body moving in a dance
Unaware of the brave new world estranged
From its source all induced into a trance

The dancing figure has the same broad hip
That I saw painted on a bright red wall
I describe this as you sit there and sip
On a blood red orange juice or what you call
Spremuta d'arancio that might remind you
Of dreams one had in a departure hall
Of moonlit places and skies of dark blue
Where watery sounds spout from marble fountains
Carving in your mind a life with a hue
Of sunsets glowing on roofs and mountains
If the future is made by pleasant deeds
One may well start by discarding curtains
And welcome the colours of all that breathes
Dawn till dusk city streets to fields of wheat
I learnt with you what were our truest needs
The hopes with which each morning we do greet

Lucignano 20 3 2007

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