Poetry

How lovely! The Nobel Prize to a POET! I do like his work!!

Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 

Romanesque Arches 

            Inside the huge Romanesque church the tourists  jostled in the half darkness.

Vault gaped behind vault, no complete view.

A few candle flames flickered.

An angel with no face embraced me

and whispered through my whole body:

“Don’t be ashamed of being human, be proud!

Inside you vault opens behind vault endlessly.

You will never be complete, that’s how it’s meant to be.”

Blind with tears

I was pushed out on the sun-seething piazza

together with Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. Tanaka, and Signora Sabatini,

and inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly.

http://www.cprw.com/Coyle/transtromer.htm