<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471154" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bridges (For Fatima)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I meandered in a leonine grace<br>Supercilious with ambiguity<br>That terrorizes the smoldering scripts<br>Of the poetry that ferries me<br>And there you were on the other end<br>With a flair of a snake charmer<br>Or the hobbling of a belly dancer<br>Inebriating all my suffocations<br>By building bridges<br>To cross the angry oceans<br>Of reticent finagling<br>Now, you've touched<br>My regal delusions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are a lady of the desert<br>Dear Fatima, you are a topaz<br>In a chalcedony of coals<br>And that is all<br>That you are.<br>That was all<br>That you were.<br>A topaz dazing<br>My vision.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the bridges halted<br>From craning to the creeks<br>And left an elegiac crooning<br>In the Levanter Wind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One last apology.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd burn our bridge, Dear Fatima<br>For you are a gilded rose<br>That has to be plucked<br>From the heraldry<br>Of inadequacies<br>And I had become<br>One of your thorns.</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=471154" data-title="Bridges (For Fatima) de Norman Santos" data-description="I meandered in a leonine grace Supercilious with ambiguity That terrorizes the smoldering scripts Of the poetry that ferries me And there you were on the other end With a flair of a snake charmer Or the hobbling of a belly dancer Inebriating all m..."></div> </div> </div>

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