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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368279" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sestina: A bird in the bamboo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The potter carried home a broken plate<br>and passing through a grove of tall bamboo, <br>some thing within disturbed the verdant sheen.<br>Intrigued, he stopped awhile to rest and wait.<br>A bird shot skyward, straight as arrow true, <br>turned somersaults and plunged back into green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bird had left the safety of the green, <br>to see from high the land as coloured plate.<br>An overview, to give perspective true.<br>Imprint in mind a map of home's bamboo<br>and then to hide and rest in patient wait, <br>before an insect hunt by thin moon's sheen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The potter's wife delighted in the sheen, <br>of jagged shards of crackle-glazed jade green.<br>With supper not quite ready, while he wait, <br>he set about to mend the shattered plate.<br>When laid beside their wares of plain bamboo, <br>it's beauty shone and both declared this true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The potter was perfectionist, it's true, <br>who long had strived to replicate the sheen, <br>of leafy shades of celadon bamboo.<br>One day, the kiln revealed translucent green.<br>The pottery's proud owner chose a plate, <br>as gift to Empress, hopeful then to wait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Official staff with retinue in wait, <br>by Emperor's decree paid tribute true.<br>A portered chair arrived of fine gold-plate, <br>to honour maker of such lovely sheen.<br>Asway, the potter turned a sickly green<br>and gripped the shouldered poles of stout bamboo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In city, thoughts returned to tall bamboo<br>and how it seemed the bird could hardly wait, <br>to fly back home within the dappled green.<br>The potter's mind was strong, his heart was true.<br>He learned of commerce, trade and coin's sheen, <br>but dreamt of home and wife and mended plate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back home, at last, amongst the green bamboo, <br>rich plate collectors, clothed in silken sheen, <br>confirmed that true rewards are worth the wait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q>
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some thing within disturbed the verdant sheen.
Intrigued, he stopped awhile to rest and wait.
A bird shot skyward, straight as arrow true, 
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