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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Does The Lotus Shrink Away For Everyone?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after A.G. Visser) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Early every evening after I see my neighbour driving away<br>an expensive car stops on the sidewalk, <br>there’s an old legend that returns to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when the sultan Mirza Khan goes on a pilgrimage<br>with many knights<br>on his way to Ispahan with his caravan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he’s just left when the neighbour’s wife rushes past<br>without loosing a moment.<br>Early every evening after I see my neighbour driving away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where in the darkness of night he leaves<br>to be involved with his commitments<br>with many knights, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">while the winter wind cuts through me, <br>the gaze of the neighbour’s wife chills the leaving car, <br>there’s an old legend that returns to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where in the palace Fatima made herself lovely<br>and the sultan had just left<br>to be involved with his commitments, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the neighbour’s wife hurries and do not want to avoid her lover<br>and I read insubordination, pleasure and rebellion on her face, <br>early every evening after I see my neighbour driving away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a horseman appears as the emir of the Badewyn<br>Fatima is naked, young and slender<br>and the sultan had just left</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the neighbour is really dedicated<br>exemplary, friendly and he wears glasses, <br>there’s an old legend that returns to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where they meet each other and make love for hours<br>when the purple iris blooms in the cup of the holy lotus<br>and Fatima is naked, young and slender</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the neighbour is with other knights when his wife is wooed <br>while she is begging for other attention.<br>Early every evening after I see my neighbour driving away, <br>there’s an old legend that returns to me: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does the lotus shrink away for everyone, does it wither<br>when the sultan Mirza Khan goes on a pilgrimage<br>when the purple iris blooms in the cup of the holy lotus<br>on his way to Ispahan with his caravan? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: “Divan” by A.G. Visser.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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Early every evening after I see my neighbour driving away
an expensive car stops on the sidewalk, 
there’s an old legend that returns to me

when the sultan Mirza Khan goes on a pilgrimage
with many knights
on his way to Is..."></div>
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