<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471456" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Postcards</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pageantry of bliss -<br>I watched them in full light<br>that burns out the soft graze<br>Why, on a sunny August, <br>with passersby gilded by ebullience<br>do I have to be a wretched man? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mirrors bend backwards<br>to my toppling complacence<br>and slivers uncouthly when<br>I unfurl my crooked teeth<br>in what should look like a smile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I counted the black birds<br>that perched on electric lines, <br>I counted the phone's dial tones, <br>but I cannot count the thorns<br>tossed upon my open sleep<br>that sent my dreams in an asylum</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night will always arrive<br>exacerbating a painful affliction<br>where I am enthused to write<br>and these words I tinker<br>will try to tickle the tassels<br>on the fringes of your blanket</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I didn't need to count<br>the diminutive tragedies<br>and benumbing dejections<br>for they are always abundant<br>guised as cold orbs assailed<br>into the inverted stygian ocean</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the clock falls into sequence<br>and quintessential pain engulfs<br>the root of my prime disease: love, <br>my words beget the stark naked frailty<br>and hoists an oppressive defense<br>in a hapless, puny onslaught</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are those postcards<br>that lured me with sunshine? <br>Those kind words that were<br>as generic as a wanton smile? <br>Those postcards enveloped<br>in the treacherous skin of hope?</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=471456" data-title="Postcards de Norman Santos" data-description="The pageantry of bliss - I watched them in full light that burns out the soft graze Why, on a sunny August, with passersby gilded by ebullience do I have to be a wretched man? The mirrors bend backwards to my toppling complacence and slivers un..."></div> </div> </div>

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