<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491224" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Night Bends</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills; <br>cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway; <br>and night bends near, a deepening shade of gray; <br>the bass concerto of a bullfrog fills<br>what silence there once was; globed searchlights play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Green hanging ferns adorn dark window sills, <br>all drooping fronds, awaiting morning’s flares; <br>mosquitoes whine; the lissome moth again<br>flits like a veiled oud-dancer, and endures<br>the fumblings of night’s enervate gray rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now the pact of night is made complete; <br>the air is fresh and cool, washed of the grime<br>of the city’s ashen breath; and, for a time, <br>the fragrance of her clings, obscure and sweet.</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=491224" data-title="Night Bends de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills; cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway; and night bends near, a deepening shade of gray; the bass concerto of a bullfrog fills what silence there once was; globed searchlights play. Green hanging fern..."></div> </div> </div>

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