Mirror

Stuart 2022-03-24 09:02:44

Poem One

We celebrate each apocalyptic solitary meeting.
You are lighter and bolder than a bird's wings, flying down two steps at a time.
The sheer dizziness led me through the damp lilac and into the mirror, your territory.
I find grace when night falls.
The door of the altar opened, your real body flashed in the dark, and I bowed slowly.
I wake up and say "Blessed" and I know this blessing is rash because you are still sleeping.
The lilacs on the table stretch out and touch your eyelids in celestial blue.
Your blue eyelids are peaceful and your hands are warm.
In the blockade of the crystal, the rivers are throbbing, the mountains and rivers are smoking, and the sea is shining.
You hold a crystal ball and sleep on the throne.
O just Lord! you are mine.
You wake up, transfiguration, our earthly, human speech.
My throat fills with new power, giving new meaning to "you", and now I call you "almighty".
Everything was deformed, even washbasins and pitchers.
We are raised and raised again.
The magic-built city separates before our eyes, like a mirage.
Mint paved our way. Birds escorted us, fish upstream, and the sky spread before us.
And fate follows, into our sobriety, like a madman wielding a razor.

Poem 2

I don't believe in omens, and I'm not afraid of bad omens.
I do not escape slander and poison.
There is no death.
We are immortal. All are immortal.
Don't be afraid to die at seventeen, and don't be afraid to die at seventy.
There is no darkness, no death, only truth and light.
We have reached the beach. When immortality arrives in batches, I am also the one who closes the net.
I have a house that won't collapse.
I summon a century at will, enter it, and build my house.
Thus, your wife and children share my dining table, which serves ancestors and descendants.
Our future is set today.
If I raise my hand, five rays of light will stop on you.
My bones are like pillars, supporting each day.
I use a ruler to measure the time. I travel through time like a mountain.
I choose a century based on my height.
We head south, kicking up dust in the prairie.
Weeds fall, a grasshopper touches a horseshoe, like a monk making a prophecy, threatening us with death.
I bind my destiny tightly to the saddle.
I stand up in the stirrups of the future like a child.
I am content with my immortality, my blood running for a century.
For a warm and safe corner, I am willing to surrender my life.
If life were a needle, it wouldn't pull me as fast as a thread.


Poem No. 3
People have a body, so lonely.
The soul loathes the thick coat: ears, eyes, buttons,
and the skin is only scars, the robes of the skeleton.
It rushed out of the cornea, flew to the holy spring, flew to the city, flew to the chariot of birds.
Through the prison fence it heard: the jubilation of the woods and meadows, the roar of the sea.
A soul without a body is like a body without clothes, not thoughts, actions, words and concepts.
An unanswered mystery: who will go back to dance where no one dances?
I dreamed of another soul, in another robe,
Passing through doubt to hope, like alcohol, burns without a shadow, and slips away,
leaving behind a souvenir: the cloves on the table.
Don't worry about poor Eurydice, child, and roll through life in a hoop, and
at every step you take, you'll hear the earth's answer, sweet, monotonous voice.

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Extended Reading
  • Garrett 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    When I read it, I always feel like I have seen it, but I really haven't seen it. Of course it is not enough to watch it once. The film’s preset is probably to allow you to relive it countless times. But I think as long as I enter the movie theater with my brain, it is okay to understand the main line. I don't know what it means to brag about being asleep in the cinema with a friend doing this.

  • Hannah 2022-01-07 15:52:59

    Like Kurosawa Akira's last "Dream", this is an extremely personal movie, and it is filmed for oneself to see. The windy trees in the countryside, the dilapidated and water-stained walls of urban apartments, and the silent faces in the mirrors are dizzy into painting-like shots by Tasman’s poems and soundtracks. We can only find a very small part of ourselves, and the rest belong to millions of fans.

Mirror quotes

  • Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfather's house used to be in which I was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time I try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again. And when I see those walls made of logs and the dark entrance, even in my dream I become aware that I'm only dreaming it. And the overwhelming joy is clouded by anticipation of awakening. At times something happens and I stop dreaming of the house and the pine trees of my childhood around it. Then I get depressed. And I can't wait to see this dream in which I'l be a child again and feel happy again because everything will still be ahead, everything will be possible...

  • Forensic doctor: You know, I fell and found strange things here - roots, bushes... Has it ever occurred to you that plants can feel, know, even comprehend? The trees, this hazelnut bush...

    Natalya: This is an alder tree.

    Forensic doctor: It doesn't matter. They don't run about. Like us who are rushing, fussing, uttering banalities. That's because we don't trust nature that is inside us. Always this suspiciousness, haste, and no time to stop and think.