How Beautiful Are Thy Feet With Shoes

 How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

Unveil as wantons will.

 Drop your robes of green, your robes of gold.

Reveal to me your nakedness.

Stretch out your white limbs, tremble in the air.

There is no skin so smooth, so cool to my touch.

Your neck is as a tower of ivory.

 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field.

How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights!

My beloved is white and ruddy,

Come for me Beloved.

 Awake, O north wind; and come now south; blow upon my garden,

Blow away care and garment.

Reveal now beauty cruel and kind wind.

That the spices thereof may flow out.

Author's Note

Nature from Solomon.

Reviews

[Swetha]

wow, lots of imagery...you've portrayed nature in a completely different way. unusual, but creative.

[Delmar Cooper]

Thank you for reading and your comment.

[Chris]

I came by to taste the currents again... leaning back and into the air - comfortably - doesn't take practice just ...oh, that WOULD be telling wouldn't it?

[Delmar Cooper]

So good to hear from you Chris. I get the log of the radio program now and then and actually hear you.

[Chris]

You should call in - your pieces deserve being heard.

[Delmar Cooper]

I'm still trying to figure out how to listen live. Life is hard for the technically challenged.

[Chris]

Bring up the link and click the play button in the broadcast box...

[Delmar Cooper]

I'll try it again first chance I get.

[TL Boehm]

Splendid personification of the sycamore, the beauty in "nakedness" - nature doesn't "hang on" to her robes much metaphorically speaking.
Loved the language in this - it did very much sound like a psalm.

[Delmar Cooper]

Thanks for reading and your comment. I borrowed liberally from the Song of Solomon.

[K Scott Smith]

I like the imagery and the intensity you wrote this with

[Delmar Cooper]

Thanks I'm glad you read it. I always admired the fall nakedness of the sycamore it seems to be the first tree to acknowledge the advent of winter. Combined with the English of the JKV translation of the Song of Solomon it seemed a perfectly sensual combination.

[Cory Barrett]

this is song of solomon..... Yes?

[Delmar Cooper]

Yes, the poem borrows liberally from three chapters of that poem

[h d e rushin]

i'm always amazed by you delmar. your voice changes from poem to poem and clearly your
playing with language, (love poem language), the most mysterious language of them all.
Well conceived my friend.

dana

[AprilRN1210]

What a playful, creative-- bordering sensual take on nature.. I love comparing the different color leaves to robes... "blow aware care and garment"... love the phrasing there.. what imagery and rich language used here.. It provides a affectionate tone to the piece.. You can FEEL the adoration and longing in it for the beauty contained.. another lovely write that I really enjoyed.. well done, I say!!

[Delmar Cooper]

Thank you for your comments and your "take" on the writing. I have always seen trees as living creatures some as beautiful and some as ugly as humans.

[AprilRN1210]

you are more than welcome, I honestly enjoyed.. I can appreciate that..

[Lyn Anderson]

I love the title with the poem. I have to think on this one a little.

[Delmar Cooper]

I liked that line, but it has little to do with the poem as written. About half is plagirized from Song of Solomon including that title. The poem is about nature the sycamore in particular.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yeah, I got the whole Song of Solomon thing, I was just trying to figure out what the title had to do with the poem, and you answered it for me.