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Beautiful face
That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun
So do you
Open your face to me as I turn the page.
Enchanting smile
Any man would be under your spell,
Oh, beauty of a magazine.
How many poems have been written to you?
How many Dantes have written to you, Beatrice?
To your obsessive illusion
To you manufacture fantasy.
But today I won't make one more Cliché
And write this poem to you.
No, no more clichés.
This poem is dedicated to those women
Whose beauty is in their charm,
In their intelligence,
In their character,
Not on their fabricated looks.
This poem is to you women,
That like a Shahrazade wake up
Everyday with a new story to tell,
A story that sings for change
That hopes for battles:
Battles for the love of the united flesh
Battles for passions aroused by a new day
Battle for the neglected rights
Or just battles to survive one more night.
Yes, to you women in a world of pain
To you, bright star in this ever-spending universe
To you, fighter of a thousand-and-one fights
To you, friend of my heart.
From now on, my head won't look down to a magazine
Rather, it will contemplate the night
And its bright stars,
And so, no more clichés.
Octavio Paz
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♫ Kim M♫
(3/18/2009 3:00:00 PM) |
this is the truth! This is how we unconsciously judge people: by their physical appearance and not by the way they behave. so sad but anyway.
good poem.
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Leslie Alexis
(1/26/2009 8:02:00 AM) |
like this. the woman virtuous is such a better pick, than the one voluptuous.
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Kassem Oude
(12/8/2008 11:15:00 PM) |
Very brave writing I full agree with. World is going down, the whale of money is pitiless and women obey and comply many of them. We speak about human rights in 21st century, people are not goods, they are value and virtue...
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JOE POEWHIT
(11/20/2008 5:56:00 AM) |
PAZ seen the reality of life, vs. - the magazine Images of love. Really a regression to the womb, kiddie porn, illusions post adolesence love, taking the place of reality.
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Rohan R
(8/3/2008 9:59:00 AM) |
Wonder with words.....Cliche
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Rochelle Cashdan
(5/18/2008 9:53:00 PM) |
Many people think Octavio Paz the outstanding Mexican poet of the 20th century. Please add more poems by him here or at your partner site, Classic etc.
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Rochelle Cashdan
(5/18/2008 9:53:00 PM) |
Many people think Octavio Paz the outstanding Mexican poet of the 20th century. Please add more poems by him here or at your partner site, Classic etc.
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Trevor Boley
(4/24/2008 5:51:00 PM) |
I don't think he is actually talking about women, it's a metaphor to poetry, not women, that's the point of talking about the Women as clichés, that a literary term. Octavio Paz was a poet of poetry, and most of his poems point at poetry itself.
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Cassie Garcia
(2/6/2008 8:29:00 PM) |
wow! dat poem was tight! its one of da best dat i hav read! lolz i bet u gt alot of gurls w/ dis poem! lolz!
z u laterz!
Cassie G. (^)
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