<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368397" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Adonis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tormented <br>By one's reflection<br>On the placid waters of spring<br>As thoughts blossom in the naïve psyche<br>Of beauty's empowerment<br>As the sins of Narcissus<br>Cross the mythological barrier<br>To smear the humility of my creation<br>As the humble child in me flees<br>To capture the apical purity of Adonis<br>To succumb to the myth of idyllic beauty<br>To submerge in reveries of sight's miscreation<br>To worship contours and silhouettes of divine clay<br>Yet the clatter of a pebble on serene waters<br>Metamorphoses the promise of youth <br>To the reverberating wrinkles of age's procreation<br>As Methuselah emerges to remind the eloping heart<br>Of the mortality of physical beauty</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dilantha+Gunawardana">Dilantha Gunawardana</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=368397" data-title="Adonis de Dilantha Gunawardana" data-description="Tormented By one's reflection On the placid waters of spring As thoughts blossom in the naïve psyche Of beauty's empowerment As the sins of Narcissus Cross the mythological barrier To smear the humility of my creation As the humble child in me f..."></div> </div> </div>

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