<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471151" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brave Fish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Torrent tides<br>Ripping the ride<br>And the ripple winnowing<br>Encumbers the quartz<br>Of time and the fray's<br>Unmarred, vestal, <br>Succulent vim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How do you lose<br>Yourself? <br>How do you lose<br>Life? <br>Being taken by the current<br>Like a dead fish<br>Within the puncturing rift<br>Of skeletons and daemons<br>How could you lose it<br>Without a gamble? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The quintessence of self, <br>Like a sole gyratory leaf<br>Needs not a place<br>For it isn't found; <br>Liberal, in the pliant<br>Dictates of inadequacies<br>And it can swim in the atmosphere, <br>It can defy gravity<br>Equipped with buoyancy<br>In its profound hollowness, <br>It can drift astray<br>Out of place<br>But not lose itself<br>Unless crashed by<br>The charred<br>Infernal flames.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my anteroom, meander<br>And find the vexed perplexities<br>Of unfurling the riddles<br>Of your turbulent aching<br>To find yourself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have found a place<br>In the ferrying parade<br>Of the river, to the sea, to the ocean, <br>Ballasting salts and chemicals<br>Metamorphosing the regal<br>Cloys of tentacles<br>Injects of treacle.<br>You are who you are<br>In the river, the sea, the ocean, <br>Change is inevitable<br>But a brave fish<br>Cannot be taken away<br>By the foul eddies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</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=471151" data-title="Brave Fish de Norman Santos" data-description="Torrent tides Ripping the ride And the ripple winnowing Encumbers the quartz Of time and the fray's Unmarred, vestal, Succulent vim. How do you lose Yourself? How do you lose Life? Being taken by the current Like a dead fish Within the punctur..."></div> </div> </div>

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