<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Large Bad Picture</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or<br>some northerly harbor of Labrador,<br>before he became a schoolteacher<br>a great-uncle painted a big picture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Receding for miles on either side<br>into a flushed, still sky<br>are overhanging pale blue cliffs<br>hundreds of feet high,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">their bases fretted by little arches,<br>the entrances to caves<br>running in along the level of a bay<br>masked by perfect waves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the middle of that quiet floor<br>sits a fleet of small black ships,<br>square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,<br>their spars like burnt match-sticks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And high above them, over the tall cliffs'<br>semi-translucent ranks,<br>are scribbled hundreds of fine black birds<br>hanging in n's in banks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One can hear their crying, crying,<br>the only sound there is<br>except for occasional sizhine<br>as a large aquatic animal breathes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the pink light<br>the small red sun goes rolling, rolling,<br>round and round and round at the same height<br>in perpetual sunset, comprehensive, consoling,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while the ships consider it.<br>Apparently they have reached their destination.<br>It would be hard to say what brought them there,<br>commerce or contemplation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384030" data-title="Large Bad Picture de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or some northerly harbor of Labrador, before he became a schoolteacher a great-uncle painted a big picture. Receding for miles on either side into a flushed, still sky are overhanging pale blue cliffs hundreds..."></div> </div> </div>

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