Abide With Me

By Eleonor A. Baker

An intense poetry collection. A bright embrace, made of light, from me to you. For you who abide with me.
I wrote these verses thinking of you and me. Together we find ourselves in an immense and wonderful universe where we are never alone.
I am Eleanor A. Baker, an Italian writer, I write poetry and fiction.
This collection of poems includes both English and Italian versions.

Un'intensa raccolta di poesie. Un abbraccio luminoso, fatto di luce, da me per te. Per te che resti con me.
Ho scritto questi versi pensando a te e a me. Insieme ci troviamo in un universo immenso e meraviglioso dove non siamo mai soli.
Sono Eleanor A. Baker, una scrittrice italiana, scrivo poesia e narrativa.
Questa raccolta di poesie comprende sia la versione inglese sia quella italiana.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eleonor A. Baker
• Release date: Jan 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215376096

Book preview

BESIDE ME

Death gouged your eyes

in an August afternoon

when the scorching sun

filled my head with sounds

and within those thoughts bees sang in chorus

they began to dance

But where do you go when the dance becomes so frenzied?

You have gone

leaving silence in someone else’s hands

while the pale green walls fell

the silence became music

clenched between the meninges

and the faces deformed by the insolence of the white ladies

their smiles smeared with stupidity

Recumbent under the sky that lived only one day

the dusky memory stirs

Blind

beside me

it leans on the searing sun and settles there

until the long tresses of the dawn carry it elsewhere

where embraces wear cherry blossom

where memories no longer smell of solitude

THE ROLL-CALL

The timid are unaccounted for

and the world is left alone

They were told to cast aside instinct

and to buy cheap brazenness

It is sold everywhere nowadays

in the digital marketplaces and in the paper palaces

where self has been crushed into a thousand beads

that roll with others

together with those of the global world

which has lost its nose

and with it

its way

Joy and nudity

are unaccounted for

That is