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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471264" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Forlorn Riddles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a piece of brown paper<br>The wild zinnia splattered<br>Among the porcelains and silvers<br>Like an ankle splintered<br>Of a once feral danseuse<br>Now embezzled by age<br>With the sun conquering west<br>The paper befallen a cage<br>Where the dribbled ink blots<br>Dangled like a hapless bait<br>And the sun punctures in a blotch<br>Eroding the scar with the faith<br>And the myths and the spellbound<br>That has never been found</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a desiccated ink blot<br>A grotesque silhouette incarnated<br>Reeking with a sanguinary plot<br>Of carnage that had sculpted<br>The stature a gilded sphinx's repose<br>The head vanished and garroted<br>Stolen by the vulpine onyx crows<br>For the chances are unpremeditated<br>It moored and towed and versified<br>Inebriated by the undulating patios<br>Groveling to be rectified<br>The sage's head rolled with peccadilloes<br>Of cursive scripts on a thread<br>Another poem left unsaid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a hollow poetry<br>From the concluding drops of life<br>Rises an eccentric cypress tree<br>Envisaging the abeyance of strife<br>With the lacquer barks unsullied<br>And the bristly leaves gone<br>A farcical scene of the sapid<br>Frame of filth under the sun<br>The wind winnows the emaciated<br>Boughs and it stirred a tantrum<br>Darting trough the firmament's spread<br>Extemporizing in a hum<br>An enameled juvenile demise<br>Perched from where the moon pries</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a putrefying cypress tree<br>Entangles a swollen moon<br>Crooning with the luminaries<br>The northeastern winds swoon<br>In a violent gust of colossus deluge<br>That stirred the maladroit clock<br>To gyrate more raucously and fiddle<br>To send rapids in the perennial rock<br>Of Luna's frail cradle<br>Her phosphorescence wobbled<br>Staggering to be consoled<br>And the night had toppled<br>A spectator felt culpable<br>As she fell on the slithering pebbles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a shattered Luna<br>The lights flickered in serrations<br>Rolling with the aurora<br>And slivering in the incisions<br>Of my palette's oppressed hue, <br>I descried a lily on the fragments<br>With leaves of laurel in lieu<br>Of the rowdy cabaret's redolent<br>Scent that always prevail to cajole<br>Yet, I plucked it from the concrete, <br>Threw it in a boiling casserole<br>And drank the venomous solute<br>Until there was nonentity<br>But a riddle on a poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a labyrinthine verse<br>Was a fraction of brown paper<br>Banished to Stygian, the effect: adverse, <br>An origami bloomed in the river<br>While the looming trees watched<br>And my poetry skewed piercing<br>Deep in the burls of their latch<br>But they are benumbed and stifling<br>With apathy and nonchalance<br>And in that moment, the poem was gone<br>And you don't even lift a muscle in askance<br>Perhaps, to reckon the lyrics done<br>And it will never be found<br>Hands down, you have won</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>
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The wild zinnia splattered
Among the porcelains and silvers
Like an ankle splintered
Of a once feral danseuse
Now embezzled by age
With the sun conquering west
The paper befallen a cage
Where the dribbled ink blots
Dangle..."></div>
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