<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354326" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Phantasm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Phantasm<br>I observed people<br>on a sprawling tall tree<br>gladly perched and poised ecstatically<br>on the strong green branches<br>picking devouring and eating heartily<br>the ripe juicy fruits with glee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, down below looked up<br>longed to be above-to sup<br>with them in their band<br>and be aloft and grand<br>to stuff, gormandize and burp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In time I took time<br>and with great difficulty<br>climbed the tree, them to mime<br>and for a short time<br> my craving was in satiety.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, to my utter dismay<br>I was witness to their bickering<br>meanness, manipulations, tinkering<br>and the manner in which <br>each one trounced upon<br>the other to eliminate and lay<br>from their stature.<br>The vile nature<br>they adopted to protract their stay<br>onto the perches in the branches<br>was sickening and nauseating.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had no mind to hold on clinging<br>and taste the juicy fruits<br>of their Robinhood cloaked loots<br>for they appeared sinister<br>and deleterious to minister<br>to an unalloyed clean soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Presently I slid down—<br>them to mock<br>and stood firm like a rock<br>down on the ground<br>wondering at the chasm<br>of the phantasm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Chandra Thiagarajan</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chandra+Thiagarajan">Chandra Thiagarajan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354326" data-title="The Phantasm de Chandra Thiagarajan" data-description="The Phantasm I observed people on a sprawling tall tree gladly perched and poised ecstatically on the strong green branches picking devouring and eating heartily the ripe juicy fruits with glee. I, down below looked up longed to be above-to sup w..."></div> </div> </div>

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