<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=470623" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Esplanade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sitting on a stripped isolated bench<br>An immigrant watches the pious Churchgoers<br>In different dresses and their style of walking! <br>Snow flakes fall from the barren sky<br>Like the parentless embryos<br>And he thinks of his native country.<br>The cast iron bells of village ringing<br>And the deaf old priest, <br>Once his acquaintance with the strict Master.<br>He plays the role as an obedient servant to him<br>Who orders to sweep the entire premises<br>And he sniffs the Jasmine flowers<br>Scatter on the silent ground.<br>Almost forgotten the chants of Pali & Sanskrit<br>Miniature candles extinguished in the winds past<br>And that continuously whipped him by the time of cruel life! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*I humbly dedicate this poem to the finest short story writer Anton Chekhov in gratitude.[ Anton Chekhov's life was the epic novel he never wrote.By the spring of 1904 Chekhov was failing rapidly, which did not keep him from thoughts of entering the Russo-Japanese War as a doctor.Instead he let himself be persuaded to go to the German health resort of Badenweiler, near the Black Forest, for treatment.On the night of June 29 he described to his wife an idea he had for a story.A few hours later he was dead.His body was sent back to Moscow in a railroad car marked Fresh Oysters.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nimal+Dunuhinga">Nimal Dunuhinga</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=470623" data-title="The Esplanade de Nimal Dunuhinga" data-description="Sitting on a stripped isolated bench An immigrant watches the pious Churchgoers In different dresses and their style of walking! Snow flakes fall from the barren sky Like the parentless embryos And he thinks of his native country. The cast iron b..."></div> </div> </div>

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