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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0012 The House of Metaphor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After you’ve negotiated that artfully-conceived<br>sharp elbow bend in the long, grand drive<br>through the fields of its estate, <br>and it hoves into view, <br>you always gasp – this palace<br> - no, more like a temple with living quarters –<br>set deep in the countryside, yet as sure <br>as one in Athens or in Rome; <br>yet that too is artfully contrived - <br>the slight mound it’s built on, <br>the cunning proportion that magnifies, <br>disguises, with its public face<br>the aptness of a family home; <br>its public rooms so grand, just echoing enough<br>to magnify a public speech; its family rooms<br>smallish, cosy; love and friendliness<br>live here. It says to the world, <br>stability; tradition re-affirmed; yet<br>this is our familiar family home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has its rooms, as rooms should be, <br>devoted to each family pursuit: <br>here’s the grand library<br>but here, with books so evidently, lovingly well read; <br>you almost missed the little girl, her hair and knees<br>curled round a book, deep in that leather green armchair; <br>the study, where your breathing seems to change, <br>there’s such a still and living silence here; <br>the nursery that emanates a lifetime’s care; <br>the children’s bedrooms set around it, <br>through which you ran and laughed and ran again; the window seats<br>from which you looked so wistfully<br>as childhood’s assurance faded into teenage questioning; <br>a house to leave, <br>a house to come back to; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a metaphor<br>as living, haunting, as the poetry it is.</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>
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