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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426245" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Variation on a Theme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Time turns tides, storms ride to peace<br>when filter fresh Fates find, <br>Spring leaves [p]lay life as transient lease<br>leave grief behind in mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All idylls fail, though tales too sad<br>may be rewrit more kind, <br>where adaptation, good from bad, <br>would conjur state of mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or sleight of hand which line by line<br>would draw in polychrome<br>the bitter black and white decline<br>from sweetness honeycomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who once mourned lonely through caprice, <br>unhappy, undermined<br>dawn redisovers, pulses ceased -<br>tears frozen, chains unwind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oases fail as pains increase<br>as second sight's eye blind<br>transmutes what once seemed golden fleece<br>to stone mute, unrefined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As some surf sculptured flotsam flung<br>back to the stormy sea, <br>as jetsam leaf of life’s tree hung<br>once on fate’s hinge, torn free. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As date, as anniversary, <br>from calendar expunged, <br>as sailor smit by siren’s see<br>in swirling ocean plunged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As broken toy, forgotten, cast<br>aside some summer day, <br>abandoned by spite’s child who fast<br>found other ploy to play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As voter, duty done, expelled<br>by politician snide<br>who cared more for positions held <br>than bridging deep divide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As damsel in distress, no knight, <br>reflecting on love lost, <br>rejected by some parasite<br>who’d calculate cash cost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As bloom precocious whose delight<br>is pinched by early frost<br>or stemmed by scissors expedite<br>in cut glass vase quick tossed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As endless treason season’s plight<br>on land none cultivate, <br>whose soil pollution spoiled despite<br>a fertile womb to sate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As troubled mind no music may<br>relieve from woes too great, <br>sights slight release when far away<br>love slips to leave cold grate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These gifts to her he, heartless, gave<br>when making tracks elsewhere, <br>what then remained gained thankless grave<br>brave song none left to care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rose to the bait who float ignored, <br>hook, line, and sinker swallowed, <br>in palm of hand fate's lines seemed flawed<br>fast dreams, past life, found hollowed.</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>
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when filter fresh Fates find, 
Spring leaves [p]lay life as transient lease
leave grief behind in mind. 

All idylls fail, though tales too sad
may be rewrit more kind, 
where adaptation, good from bad..."></div>
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