Стихи Мэрилин Монро

Не многим известно, что Мэрилин Монро писала стихи. Возможно, она опасалась критики, а может, не хотела разрушить образ жизнерадостной, но глуповатой блондинки?

Она читала стихи только самым близким друзьям, например Милтону Грину (друг и соучредитель Marilyn Monroe Productions) и Карлу Сандбергу. В них Мэрилин раскрывала свои мысли и душу. Вот некоторые из этих стихотворений:

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O, Time
Be Kind
Help this weary being
To forget what is sad to remember
Lose my loneliness,
Ease my mind,
While you eat my flesh.

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I could have loved you once
and even said it
But you went away,
When you came back it was too late
And love was a forgotten word.
Remember?

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From time to time
I make it rhyme
but don't hold that kind
of thing
against
me-
Oh well, what the hell,
so it won't sell.
What I want to tell-
is what's on my mind:
'taint Dishes,
'taint Wishes,
it's thoughts
flinging by
before I die-
and to think
in ink.

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Life, I am of both your directions
Existing more with the cold frost
Strong as a cobweb in the wind
Hanging downward the most
Somehow remaining
Those beaded rays have the colors
I've seen in paintings--ah life
They have cheated you
Thinner than a cobwebs's thread
Sheerer than any-
But it did attach itself
And held fast in strong winds
And singed by the leaping hot fires
Life-of which at singular times
I am both of your directions-
Somehow I remain hanging downward the most
As both of your directions pull me.

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To the weeping willow
I stood beneath your limbs
and you flowered and finally clung to me
and when the wind struck....the earth
and sand--you clung to me.

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I left my home of green rough wood,
A blue velvet couch.
I dream till now
A shiny dark bush
Just left of the door.
Down the walk
Clickity clack
As my doll in her carriage
Went over the cracks-
"We'll go far away."

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Don't cry my doll
Don't cry
I hold you and rock you to sleep
Hush hush
I'm pretending now
I'm not your mother who died.

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Help help
Help I feel life coming closer
When all I want to do is die.

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Good nite
Sleep
and sweet repose
Where ever you lay your head-
I hope you find your nose-

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The smart one says the eye
is not truly round. His are,
though, fat with looking.

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When the hourglass
takes off its dress,
the sand loosens and spreads.
You cannot find a footing
in me. They always said
I was terrible in bed.

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They taught my body
to squeeze grapes.
Warm wine pours out.
And once or twice,
a slick skin.

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I've got a tear hanging over my beer that I can't let go
It's too bad
I feel sad
When I got all my life behind me.
If I had a little relief
From this grief
Then
I couldfind a drowning straw to hold on to.
It's great to be alive.
They say I'm lucky to be alive
It's hard to figure out -
When everything I feel -
Hurts.

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Nite of the nite
Soothing
Darkness
Refreshes
Air
Seems different
Night has no eyes nor no one
Silence
Except for the night itself.