<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wraith King</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cunning eyes of a burning fox, <br>Wisdom of the adamant ancient tree, <br>Riveted tongue of stashed lighting<br>Buried in deafening thunders, <br>In a dapper veneer; a guise<br>He had once been a king<br>But his own brewed tyranny<br>Ousted him from his regality<br>And his putrefying power<br>Is gravid from suppurating<br>The things that his empire<br>Gnawed and swallowed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dour without his cape, <br>His gilded diadem, <br>His valiant sword, <br>Or his vast sovereign<br>He is a brand new king<br>Of his own ethereal grounds<br>Of the old and the dying</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He built a new kingdom<br>Looming before his sun<br>Cascading like a gray curtain<br>Of the somnolent scene<br>Averting his sweltering eyes<br>Bastion of pseudo-sanguinity, <br>Turrets of superimposed arrogance, <br>Sentries of pent-up dread, <br>And soldiers of rues and regrets<br>He was a king of slaves<br>And a slave of his kingdom: <br>A widower of his power</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His queen, his prince; <br>His proud herald of wealth, <br>All pawned for the buoy<br>Of his vigor and verve<br>Of his power and monarchy<br>And these possessions he seized<br>Whilst they bolted him in a room<br>Where bliss is but a colossal cloud<br>Made of temporal and lenient gases<br>A dominion that lurks and mangles<br>In the shadows of undulating slumber<br>And slurred wakefulness of inebriations</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a farce decadence it was<br>To juggle in opposing poles<br>A tragic phantasms of kingdom<br>A malignant pang of spasm<br>For a woebegone sovereign.</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=471725" data-title="Wraith King de Norman Santos" data-description="Cunning eyes of a burning fox, Wisdom of the adamant ancient tree, Riveted tongue of stashed lighting Buried in deafening thunders, In a dapper veneer; a guise He had once been a king But his own brewed tyranny Ousted him from his regality And ..."></div> </div> </div>

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