<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Peace Is Not Yet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whisk the rose-wine veiling fume <br>And the reedy rendezvous of the stars<br>But be cautious to exhume the gravid<br>But frail burden of the canopies<br>Underneath the marred chortles<br>And the playful lisping of the lips<br>These eyes sweep the dusts bashfully<br>And bleaches the tattoo of oppression<br>Cringing the sallow skin of somnolence—<br>The pawned peace in slumber; <br>To usurp the fissures of the greedy sand<br>Siphoning the path thoroughly<br>Until the stride bends in a spur<br>Of evocative and spurious reveries<br>And as hope grovel for hope<br>I shall contend with the manacles<br>And as pride devour pride <br>I shall rival with the angry tides<br>So I can forgive you, <br>So I can forgive myself, <br>And sleep may arrive the harbinger<br>Of peace and quietude<br>But until then, I remain astray<br>In this ravine inside myself<br>In this harried tug-of-war<br>Of cajoling phantoms <br>And their mourning deaths <br>Peace is not yet, sleep is not yet, <br>In the equinox of unreality.</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=471440" data-title="Peace Is Not Yet de Norman Santos" data-description="Whisk the rose-wine veiling fume And the reedy rendezvous of the stars But be cautious to exhume the gravid But frail burden of the canopies Underneath the marred chortles And the playful lisping of the lips These eyes sweep the dusts bashfully A..."></div> </div> </div>

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