<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Clarity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">do not eat words<br>do not eat my poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">do not attempt to chew it<br>do not swallow it whole like how a boa swallows the whole pig</div><div style="margin:10px 0">take your time. look at it. from the first word to the last.<br>think of this poem as syllables, not as thoughts, not as my thoughts.<br>or your thoughts. think of this poem as a feeling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a baby sleeping. a calm look at the eye. a stare.<br>a grip. a hand grasping another hand.<br>a breath suspended in cold air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">two hands in prayer. think of this as the sound of a distant bell.<br>an orange dressed monk walking at the shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a leaf falling on the white sand.<br>a last step on the trip. <br>a beginning of a dream. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">do not think now. Feel the sands slipping from your fingers.<br>See the sands falling on the floor of the sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">do not move. Do not swallow your saliva.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then speak the first word of this line.<br>This i think is clarity.</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=486731" data-title="Clarity de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="do not eat words do not eat my poetry do not attempt to chew it do not swallow it whole like how a boa swallows the whole pig take your time. look at it. from the first word to the last. think of this poem as syllables, not as thoughts, not as m..."></div> </div> </div>

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