With a glance of
your eyes tell me
exactly what I
should be looking at
and what is the
best way to appreciate
another
collection such as this one
where the
characters show age over time
and hidden
motifs are unseen by most.
Please tell me
how to notice those motifs
and how to stop
buying all of your work.
At the beginning
of each piece of work,
the writer tells
a story you’re often in
about an
ordinary happening
where you
simply, harshly, embarrass them
and it makes
them realize where they stand
and how stuck
they are calling you teacher.
Your perfect
drawing sensibility
has changed how
society views artists
in terms of
intellect and common sense.
My artist friend
could learn so much from you
but she creates
her own awful style
that she seems
to think is working so well
and maybe it
would if she would follow
at least one
person’s advice, anyone’s.
I commission her
for art, not liking it.
It wouldn’t be
right to take my business
and go to
another artist out there.
It would be a
disaster if they knew
and told her I
was cheating with another.
I would lose a good
friend, a not so great one,
but still a good
friend, not always loyal,
but in the end
worth the waste of money.
(“With a glance
of your eyes...”) by Rabindranath Tagore
XII
With a glance of
your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets’ harps,
fair woman!
But for their
praises you have no ear; therefore do I come to praise you.
You could humble
at your feet the proudest heads of all the world;
But it is your
loved ones, unknown to fame, whom you choose to worship; therefore I worship
you.
Your perfect
arms would add glory to kingly splendor with their touch;
But you use them
to sweep away the dust, and to make clean your humble home; therefore I am
filled with awe.
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