<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Still As A Clock</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will the lacquer veneer erode with<br>Serrated shards of your jubilant complacence? <br>The Walls of Troy shouting an echolalia<br>Of somnabulistic susurrations usurping<br>The harried ego vying in barricaded seams, <br>Still finagles its claws on the svelte frame<br>Of my despondent shoulders and the burden<br>Is etched deeply into the collar bones, strangulated<br>By the vines of your leisurely blooming garden<br>Where time sinks into the hollow void, <br>And strings of icicles soused in fire, <br>Forbidden memories sprawls like the dermis<br>Of the passing season's contingency, <br>And words fluttered like innocuous paper planes<br>Winnowed by heaving breaths of serendipity<br>And pummeled by the soft drizzles of verity<br>Tarnishing the frangible papyrus into the salient<br>Turbulence of malignant clouts of veracity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will you arrive like the sun rise<br>Before you leave like the setting sun? <br>Dispose the vicissitude's blithe<br>With the inert plummets of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will you leave like the shadows<br>Looming in the patios of the nights<br>And shudder in the vivid throws<br>Of fire balls and gospel songs? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will your height reveal the distance<br>And the depths of the cognizance<br>Slapping the macadamized ignorance? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will the engulfing calls<br>Die with the siren's songs? <br>When will the sirens drown<br>Along with the harried frowns? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm here, still as a clock<br>Futilely meandering.</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=471516" data-title="Still As A Clock de Norman Santos" data-description="When will the lacquer veneer erode with Serrated shards of your jubilant complacence? The Walls of Troy shouting an echolalia Of somnabulistic susurrations usurping The harried ego vying in barricaded seams, Still finagles its claws on the svelt..."></div> </div> </div>

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