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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471420" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Lion Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this lair I built<br>all around myself<br>the tigers lost their hunger<br>and lions slept like coals<br>without a flicker of flame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were footsteps<br>lambent and poetic.<br>How can one find me<br>ballasting a violent nothingness<br>in the void of this cellar<br>where the prison is the warden? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps the spigot<br>made the saline water<br>sing enigmatically <br>into the harried pipes<br>of gelid gold and brass</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the dawn morphs to dusk<br>I saw you, calculating steps<br>like insurmountable avalanches<br>to catch the iron shackles <br>on my aching legs<br>You found me amidst<br>the chalky light and air<br>of my cobwebbed heart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You found the Braille <br>on my terse paw prints<br>and read the laments<br>of ludicrous misshape<br>like no one else did<br>and for a stolen moment -<br>while the aeons became bubbles, <br>the breeze sang violins, <br>the sleeping cars dreamt of revving; <br>several degrees out of phase<br>I saw myself in you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like sleeping mirrors<br>we awaken into the terror<br>as we look into each other<br>and exchanged livid lights<br>and lucidly formless hopes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the glass is shattered<br>and the bones dangled<br>like an inebriated pendulum<br>tautly vertical in<br>pleading for you again<br>to pillage my time<br>and percolate the many stains<br>of the unwoven tassels<br>on my parsimonious tapestry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spuriously ratcheting flames<br>on the wick of our charades<br>wept like candles<br>but the tears will not<br>sing its weathervane song<br>burned generously<br>like toppling bridges</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are you now? <br>So distant from the heraldry<br>not even your hair<br>comes to my waning graze<br>but in this lair, the shadows<br>remained riveted on the walls<br>and this telescope is inverted<br>I am the only one plummeting away <br>into the gates of exodus</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a caged beast sleuthing<br>the pollens of yellow daffodils<br>I lost my virulence for hunger<br>in this malignant dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unbreak my cage if<br>I can no longer be tamed, <br>my fastidious heart is frail<br>my fastidious heart shall fail<br>so crucify me now<br>before I become<br>a lion or a man alone<br>if I am a lion man at all.</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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all around myself
the tigers lost their hunger
and lions slept like coals
without a flicker of flame

There were footsteps
lambent and poetic.
How can one find me
ballasting a violent nothingness
in the void of this cellar
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