<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424851" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Collective Chrysalis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before tired tocsin tolls, notes final dawn<br>objections bowls to smithereens, blasts corn, <br>beauty need know no double face, <br>ambiguity's about-face.<br>Beholder and beholden lace<br>together love in love's embrace<br>each beat completes sweet other's pace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be forward, ward off wardens, trough or storm, <br>accounts drawn, love withdrawn or jealous scorn.<br>Base all on sharing, never base, <br>replace conformist time and place<br>with acceptance and erase<br>all pettiness too commonplace<br>that mars, that bars true state of grace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before last keynote speech leaves pages torn, <br>reach out, life's rose shows scent's well worth time's thorn.<br>There's neither chaser, chaste disgraced, <br>comparisons to draw, changed taste. <br>Fulfillment never runs to waste. <br>Collective chrysalis encased<br>in love's state states case for fresh trace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for previous version entitled Lids Can Open 20050322 see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lids Can Open<br>After midnight tolls, before the dawn<br>insight objections bowls, won't be foresworn <br>beauty knows no double face<br>beholder and beholden trace<br>together love in love's embrace<br>where each heart charts the other's pace.<br>Drop keynote speech, leave pages torn, <br>reach out, out reach, rose needs no thorn, <br>there is no chaser and no chase<br>there's no disgrace but only grace<br>and one shared chrysalid in case<br>the lid can open, fears erase.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(30 December 2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=424851" data-title="Collective Chrysalis de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Before tired tocsin tolls, notes final dawn objections bowls to smithereens, blasts corn, beauty need know no double face, ambiguity's about-face. Beholder and beholden lace together love in love's embrace each beat completes sweet other's pace...."></div> </div> </div>

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