<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Terminal New Moon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From this bloating hoary disk<br>I shall bicker to envisage<br>A new moon guffawing<br>In its emollient ashen fringe<br>To exhume myself from oppression<br>Of self-induced agonizing subterfuge<br>Fondly nibbling with the luminaries<br>On the girdle of veracity<br>Inch by inch, I'm drawing closer<br>To the lunatic spell of the old moon<br>Marred by its penumbra<br>I sliced myself to grate the wounds <br>To open and deluge with pain<br>For pain is for the living<br>Condensing these oxymoronic ideals<br>I shall efface the man inside<br>And bargain for a travesty in a chortle; <br>A superficial veneer: a new moon.<br>And when the wolves howl tonight, <br>In their carnal carousals<br>And the owls hoot along, <br>From their voyeuristic revelries<br>I will sing along like a vulture<br>For them to find and muse me<br>As I paint the opiate panorama<br>With a perilous terminal death<br>Inside a dire scuffling<br>Against my archenemy; <br>The undertow of wisdom, <br>The tirade of freedom: <br>Bigoted veracity, <br>Dangling on a new moon.</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=471547" data-title="Terminal New Moon de Norman Santos" data-description="From this bloating hoary disk I shall bicker to envisage A new moon guffawing In its emollient ashen fringe To exhume myself from oppression Of self-induced agonizing subterfuge Fondly nibbling with the luminaries On the girdle of veracity Inch by..."></div> </div> </div>

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