statues on Charles Bridge, Karluv Most, Prague / Karl Statues on the Bridge, Karluv Most, Prague
Millions of photos in the world. I've just added a couple, a few years ago, showing an unusual touch of Prague and its stones. They are rough, but a poet has covered with kisses. He loved all his life in Prague, just as they loved so many poets.
dry before the two or three kisses on the forehead
and here and there, you lean to
Drinking water
silver from the mirror,
and if no one will be watching you
touched his lips with his mouth.
There is a time when most of the fingers
quick passes on the clay the sculptor
blood impatient
you model the body from within. Perhaps
Squeeze
your hair and young people rise above the shoulders because
rather to resemble wings, and before them promptly
'll run right in front where there
the eyes and the bottom end of the air is
the big, steep, thrilling and sweet
nothing
shining.
(Paraphrasing and quoting Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet, Nobel Prize for Literature 1984)
Detail of the Wallenstein Garden, Prague / The Wall (or "Grotto") of the Wallenstein Garden
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