<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hallmark of Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every day, the sun sets<br>you noticed? <br>in a great, glorious performance<br>of wraparound scenic splendour<br>as if it were the last day of the world<br>(we'd sue) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and all around the world<br>poets who've been chewing on their pencils all day<br>or gazing steamy-eyed at an empty screen<br>without as we poets say, the Muse whispering<br>an ode we're owed<br>as poets<br>wonder if it could be one last chance<br>to write the ultimate sunset poem<br>to get something down today<br>and justify our existence beyond existing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">noting that at sunset<br>the red flowers in the garden glow so intensely<br>that you can feel it on your eyeballs <br>and the sunlight just when the sun disappears<br>lights up the whole landscape like a floodlight<br>on the stage set of our lives<br>that sort of stuff</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then next morning the sun<br>rises on our ultimate sunset poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and later sets</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459535" data-title="The Hallmark of Poetry de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Every day, the sun sets you noticed? in a great, glorious performance of wraparound scenic splendour as if it were the last day of the world (we'd sue) and all around the world poets who've been chewing on their pencils all day or gazing steamy..."></div> </div> </div>

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