<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unheard Elegy of a Widow Pianist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a quadrille of his flimsy fingers<br>He lambently imposed tranquility<br>In between the brunt of his calloused soldiers<br>That the phalanges strangulated in a knot<br>And trudged and snapped and broke<br>With the heart of the widow pianist<br>Whistling his vapid tune from weaker towers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the streets teeming of faceless strangers<br>He played the elude of his phantasmagoria<br>And groveled with a bleeding sonata<br>With shambling notes of empty words<br>That singed brusquely in a queue<br>Among their empty swollen ears<br>The schmaltz plea died with the violins</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sedated himself with the picture<br>Of familiar peoples crammed in a rotogravure<br>And the melancholy disembogued of verve<br>When the pictures pranced with deluded scherzos<br>And the listening thawed unto their toes<br>As he gnawed upon a drunken smile<br>The pianist's elegy strode a thousand mile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The widow pianist crooned to bargain<br>For an audience to the unfurling morsels<br>Of his slivered mind and its elegy<br>And ferry the silver euphonic melody<br>In a place divorced of harsh veracity, <br>Where triviality would be unwelcomed, <br>And benediction is in a saccharine orchestra.</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=471670" data-title="Unheard Elegy of a Widow Pianist de Norman Santos" data-description="In a quadrille of his flimsy fingers He lambently imposed tranquility In between the brunt of his calloused soldiers That the phalanges strangulated in a knot And trudged and snapped and broke With the heart of the widow pianist Whistling his vapi..."></div> </div> </div>

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