<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471439" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pay No Obeisance Unto This Purgatory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not stoop down, dear friend<br>Walk underneath the moonshine<br>and bathe in her splendid light<br>Never conceal your agog shadow<br>praying for a moment of dancing<br>under her phosphorous luminescence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Walk through the seething fire<br>and bathe in the freezing hail, <br>wear your grandest masquerade<br>but never let the salient rivers<br>on your unfathomable mirrors<br>to slumber into abeyance<br>or succumb into oblivion and <br>forget the splendor of its radiance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not lean upon the thicket <br>of the looming trees around us<br>for they are rooted in a land<br>that will never quake and shatter<br>even when the gears relearn<br>their clockwork motions, for in the end, <br>desolation awaits alone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seek the counsel of the flowers<br>and let them blossom with<br>the stashed lamentations<br>because these will be the bones<br>of the flaccid and lifeless silhouette<br>prancing and bowing haplessly<br>against the swooning of the monsoon<br> This will be the arsenal and turret<br>protecting the frangible beauty -<br>in the semblance of brambly thorns<br>slathering the slender body</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fall not into trepidation<br>and never succumb to defeat<br>as long as these slivers<br>of a shabby heaven<br>still manages to subsist<br>upon this purgatory.</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=471439" data-title="Pay No Obeisance Unto This Purgatory de Norman Santos" data-description="Do not stoop down, dear friend Walk underneath the moonshine and bathe in her splendid light Never conceal your agog shadow praying for a moment of dancing under her phosphorous luminescence Walk through the seething fire and bathe in the freezin..."></div> </div> </div>

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