http://www.wordnik.com/lists/poetrie-to-my-pegasus.xml This poem was first published in 1908 in the volume "The Sensual City". Translated by Elizabeth R. Napier and Barbara R. Studholme, taken from - Marinetti, F. T. (2002) Selected Poems and Prose New Haven and London: Yale University Press <br /> <br /> To my Pegasus <br /> <br />Vehement god of a race of steel, <br /><a href="/words/space-intoxicated">space-intoxicated</a> Automobile, <br />stamping with anguish, champing at the bit! <br />O <a href="/words/formidable Japanese monster">formidable Japanese monster</a> with eyes like a forge, <br />fed on fire and mineral oils, <br />hungry for horizons and <a href="/words/sidereal spoils">sidereal spoils</a>, <br />I unleash your heart of <a href="/words/diabolic puff-puffs">diabolic puff-puffs</a>, <br />and your giant <a href="/words/pneumatics">pneumatics</a>, for the dance <br />that you lead on the white roads of the world. <br />At last I release your <a href="/words/metallic reins">metallic reins</a>…You leap, <br />with ecstasy, into <a href="/words/liberating Infinity">liberating Infinity</a>!… <br /> <br />At the sound of the pound of your voice… <br />see how the setting Sun hounds <br />your bounding steps, accelerating its [bleeding <br />palpitation] along the horizon… <br />It’s galloping there, down in the woods…look!… <br /> <br />What is the matter, <a href="/words/handsome demon">handsome demon</a>?… <br />I’m at your mercy…Take me! <br />On the ground deafened despite its echoes, <br />under the sky blinded despite its golden stars, <br />I go fueling my fever and my desire <br />with sword blows right in the nose!… <br />And from moment to moment, I straighten my back <br />to feel winding round my quivering neck <br /><a href="/words/the cool downy arms of the wind">the cool downy arms of the wind</a>. <br /> <br />It’s <a href="/words/your alluring distant arms">your alluring distant arms</a> that draw me! <br />this wind, it’s <a href="/words/your engulfing breath">your engulfing breath</a>, <br /><a href="/words/fathomless Infinity">fathomless Infinity</a> absorbing me with joy!… <br />Ah! Ah!…suddenly the <a href="/words/gangling black windmills">gangling black windmills</a> <br />seem to be running <br />on their <a href="/words/whaleboned">whaleboned</a> canvas wings <br />as if on gigantic legs… <br /> <br />Now the Mountains get ready to throw <br /><a href="/words/cloaks of drowsy coolness">cloaks of drowsy coolness</a> no my flight… <br />There! There! look! at that <a href="/words/sinister curve">sinister curve</a>!… <br />Mountains, O <a href="/words/monstrous Cattle">monstrous Cattle</a>, O Mammoths <br />trotting heavily along, arching your huge backs, <br />you are outrun…drowned… <br />in the maze of mists!… <br />And dimly I hear <br /><a href="/words/the whirring of your colossal legs">the whirring of your colossal legs</a> <br />pounding the road in their <a href="/words/seven-league boots">seven-league boots</a>… <br /> <br />Mountains with <a href="/words/cool cloaks of azure">cool cloaks of azure</a>!… <br />Beautiful rivers breathing in the moonlight!… <br />Shadowy plains! I pass you at full gallop <br />on this <a href="/words/racing monster">racing monster</a>…Stars, my Stars, <br />do you hear his bounds, the sound of the pound <br />of his <a href="/words/brazen lungs">brazen lungs</a> endlessly exploding? <br />The bet is on…with You, my Stars!… <br />Faster!…faster still!… <br />And no respite, and no rest! <br />Release the brakes!…You can’t?… <br />Smash them then!… <br />Let the engine’s pulse <a href="/words/centuple">centuple</a>! <br /> <br />Hurrah! No more contact with <a href="/words/the filthy earth">the filthy earth</a>!… <br />At last, I break loose and fly freely <br />over the <a href="/words/intoxicating abundance">intoxicating abundance</a> <br />of Stars streaming in the great bed of the sky! http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/words/sidereal spoils Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:00:31 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/sidereal spoils http://www.wordnik.com/words/diabolic puff-puffs Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:00:07 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/diabolic puff-puffs http://www.wordnik.com/words/your alluring distant arms Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:59:48 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/your alluring distant arms http://www.wordnik.com/words/fathomless infinity Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:59:28 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/fathomless infinity http://www.wordnik.com/words/the cool downy arms of the wind Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:59:06 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/the cool downy arms of the wind http://www.wordnik.com/words/monstrous cattle Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:58:48 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/monstrous cattle http://www.wordnik.com/words/the filthy earth Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:58:31 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/the filthy earth http://www.wordnik.com/words/cloaks of drowsy coolness Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:58:13 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/cloaks of drowsy coolness http://www.wordnik.com/words/cool cloaks of azure Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:57:52 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/cool cloaks of azure http://www.wordnik.com/words/intoxicating abundance Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:57:32 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/intoxicating abundance http://www.wordnik.com/words/gangling black windmills Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:57:15 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/gangling black windmills http://www.wordnik.com/words/space-intoxicated Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:56:50 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/space-intoxicated