<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Meandering Lion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Latch the doors, <br>I want to meander <br>With flaming feet<br>Of an opulent lion<br>Inside my prattling veins<br>And in the currents<br>Of your thunders<br>If you can see them <br>In the condoles of the scars<br>And in the knot of my temples.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the arrows strike<br>With vengeance and repugnance<br>They do not have the heart<br>Of gilded susurrations, <br>They can nick my tawny suit<br>But never touch the soul<br>Basking in the prowls<br>Of a protracted and brazen<br>Glissando.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stay, inside my forlorn forest<br>If you can endure the enigma<br>And if you can wrangle<br>With the lashing of<br>My violent yet pliant chains, <br>Not of lightning, <br>But of infinity<br>In the farcical veneer<br>Of the moon-kissed eaves<br>Dispensing all amiable jewelries<br>Into the sea<br>Of drudgery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear me feign a tongue-tied roar<br>And rip myself with electric tongues, <br>Corrupt these eyes of a child<br>As I pretend to scamper the wiles<br>Of the labyrinthine riddles; <br>I am who I am, <br>A perplex cacophony, <br>And the dissonance of the desires<br>To be heard while whispering<br>A clandestine interpolation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave and shun the scintillations<br>Of the lackluster stars<br>That would remind me<br>Of you and your lucidity<br>And wedging distraught, <br>And of being one amongst <br>These far-flung constellations.<br>If you cannot give me<br>A lion soul, <br>Stay away and permit me<br>To pretend that I am<br>A meandering lion.</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=471594" data-title="The Meandering Lion de Norman Santos" data-description="Latch the doors, I want to meander With flaming feet Of an opulent lion Inside my prattling veins And in the currents Of your thunders If you can see them In the condoles of the scars And in the knot of my temples. Let the arrows strike With v..."></div> </div> </div>

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