What is the name of the poem done in Movie Cooley High?

Answer 1

Walter Benton - Were I Pygmalion or GodWere I Pygmalion or God

I would make you exactly as you are ... in all dimensions.

From your warm hair to your intimate toes would you be

wholly in your own image. I would change nothing, add or take away.

The same full red flower would model for your mouth -

and from the same seashore

would I bring the small translucent earshapes of your ears.

O the lovely throat that I could duplicate!

The tender arms!

I would shape your breasts the shape of the hungry little faces

they are now ... and tip them with the same quick mouths.

I could not make your eyes deeper than they are -

nor softer to look into ... nor could I turn your hips, your thighs,

your belly in a sweeter curve: nor indent the hollows

of your loins more tenderly - or store more honey there or fire.

How would I name you ... need you ask? You know. By the scarlet

and the blue you wear when love is upon you, by the yellow

tongues - by the warm white fragrance ... by the slender leaves.

- Walter Benton