Raquel Angel Nagler Poems

Maybe it is not enough to stand in front of the mirror.
Maybe
I should pass through it
Alone, without the whispers and the cry of a gaze,
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I took my destiny to a street gypsy.
I said: Read my rustle.
I am a leaf plucked and stolen.
No, she whispered
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Alone in the dark water
I found the word that could become summer:
The sea.
One more word like this, only one more,
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From your mouth
I drank clean water.
When I asked you how old you are
You said:
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Quote: 'The knower and the known are one'- D.T.Suzuki
I said:
What I know is what I am,
But my life whispered: no.
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We say: 'I have a body', ‘I have a soul'.
Yet I never understood who has them
Nor why he had bought them
In the market of pain.
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Quote: ' If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"- Voltaire
If the Demon did not exist
It would be necessary to invent him
So our gods
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Alone I colonize my life,
The halcyon of its noons, its solitudes.
No, you whisper.
There is nothing, no one to colonize.
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My patience
Is not the peace of the old.
Only a little warrior
Defeated again and again
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Maybe perfection
Is the stillness of a tensed bow
In its effortless effort.
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