<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Cemetery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">last Friday<br>i went to the cemetery</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i like the silence of the place<br>the trimmed grass <br>and the tiled mausoleums</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the air is warm on this cemented<br>territory<br>this silent city<br>this paradise of mutes and<br>rested souls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i like the creeping vines with white flowers<br>and reddish center<br>i envy the stones and the pebbles<br>i appreciate the grills and the shiny <br>engravings <br>metallic dates of death and birth<br>and the last epitaphs of the <br>beloved</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but like you<br>i do not wish to stay that longer <br>it is not my time yet<br>as i still have other places to go<br>the noisy ones<br>the intriguing places of the heart<br>those where we lose ourselves<br>and wish sometimes<br>that homes be not that far away<br>that lights in the living room and the kitchen<br>still function well<br>the odor of the fried bananas<br>the aroma of coffee<br>the smoke from their tobacco pipes<br>the smell of perfume on slender necks<br>the silk in their gowns<br>the colors of their eye shades<br>the movement of their hands<br>the activity of our worlds<br>on their orbits our bodies as planets<br>in our living universe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we offer flowers for the dead<br>we wish them luck too<br>and we keep on moving somewhere<br>not losing hope<br>keeping the grip for life<br>whatever that be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the marital bed of course<br>keeps the central point of this existence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=486053" data-title="At The Cemetery de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="last Friday i went to the cemetery i like the silence of the place the trimmed grass and the tiled mausoleums the air is warm on this cemented territory this silent city this paradise of mutes and rested souls i like the creeping vines with wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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