<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471496" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shards of Oblivion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haplessly wafting through the pavements<br>Where the sun sprawled in supercilious entanglement<br>The mirage somersaulted in a carousal<br>Whilst my iron eyes thawed in arousal<br>And there in the vacuous silence of the horizon<br>Nonchalant of the maelstrom, I exhibited a forlorn<br>Writer with the garish polar lights as my pen<br>And the pavement my escritoire, too sullen, <br>And the paper is a blotted film upon my head<br>And the story I lace is from a nylon thread<br>That I found in the jagged fragments of my desk<br>Whilst mice and men scampered on the fractions and hex<br>My penmanship in a sodden rapture<br>I gnashed upon the panging stature<br>Of myself as I tried to press and swallow<br>The shards of oblivion, staining my paper with peccadillo<br>Though, no blood will seep out from my frenzied rivers<br>The gargoyles will snigger upon the driftwood that I am and slaver<br>In this farcical poetry effacing incarnation<br>Devouring the sanguine glowing bastion<br>Yet I endure, impassioned and despondently<br>Combing and palming the shards blithely<br>And gorge upon its piercing kisses<br>And the blasé of the looming chess pieces.</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=471496" data-title="Shards of Oblivion de Norman Santos" data-description="Haplessly wafting through the pavements Where the sun sprawled in supercilious entanglement The mirage somersaulted in a carousal Whilst my iron eyes thawed in arousal And there in the vacuous silence of the horizon Nonchalant of the maelstrom, I ..."></div> </div> </div>

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