<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471269" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From The Distance (Of Life and Death)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ghastly mantling fog<br>That had spun out my eyes<br>Adamantine and brazenly cold<br>Is your very breath slicing<br>A wanton shrill in the supple skin<br>Like how those words flung<br>Into the impassable distance<br>Toppling the dearth expanse<br>Of time strutting down her golden stair</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those words are the spine<br>Of the hundred tacitly inscribed<br>Poetries in blood and smothered breaths<br>Along with the thousand winding days<br>Plummeting into the abysmal trench<br>In constant winnows of your redolent<br>Balmy zithers of the morning sun<br>As I speak of these words, I entangle<br>Myself in the wisps of your tresses<br>And gape in the crevasses<br>Of your hostile sweetness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the distance eloquently stretched<br>In life and death in ethereal phases; <br>In the verdure of treacherous subtleties, <br>In absence and in the deficient existence, <br>You bore me life from subsisting <br>The gorging plenitude of puissant deaths<br>I swallowed you and your piercing shafts<br>Had scraped my insides and you have<br>Melted into my very blood, life and death; <br>You were my life and death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gods had left me to bled<br>For your wanderlusting immolation<br>So you went far-off, father than<br>The subways of oblivion<br>Down into the pits of lies<br>And you have reaped your wings<br>Whet your prongs and sealed<br>The gridlock enthralls beneath<br>The earth that cradles your remnants<br>I will crush my ears to the mud<br>For the petrichor slathers<br>The entity of your particulars, <br>To seize your lies and inject<br>A deluge of life and death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Constantly, in dithers<br>Longer than your memories<br>And preempted blarneys<br>Blind as the serrated stars<br>I shall efface your calls<br>To cross the line and free fall<br>Again into your eternal ditch<br>And keep myself between<br>The inertia of life and death<br>Regardless, you were<br>The two opposing columns<br>No longer</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=471269" data-title="From The Distance (Of Life and Death) de Norman Santos" data-description="The ghastly mantling fog That had spun out my eyes Adamantine and brazenly cold Is your very breath slicing A wanton shrill in the supple skin Like how those words flung Into the impassable distance Toppling the dearth expanse Of time strutting do..."></div> </div> </div>

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