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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=515959" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wilted Rose As A Bookmark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Desideratum*—plucked young as an oblation <br>  of the love sick hermit, , <br>Billet-doux *forgotten, why resurrect me in a book raving wolf &false prophet, <br> to venerate at leisure? , a life in bracket, the reluctant goddess<br>Then cast away to shadow knife in the cellar? <br>  Or a worse fate of utter neglect in Hades.? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeding her cold, satisfied distrust, <br>  Condemning a future bound to its secrets, <br>When in denial, looked me over, <br> just a banal confirmation or an error fixed in doubt.? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surrendering each page to the bookmark, <br> given an adrenalin wash for the trouble, <br>Like a prop used to measure the mistakes of the past<br>  Or a fruitful future to girdle.<br>The Gods are hard to please, give him the benefit of doubt, <br> No one’s innocent all have blighted the rose! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Petals compete to be wisps, <br> camouflage a dehydrated existence, <br>Delicate lips frozen in time with its taunting freshness, <br> left forgotten immortalized between the pages, <br> of a lost moment a reminiscent, //</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each of my curl fathered a rainbow<br> & stole hues from Providence, <br>Have felt the sun on my back, been on pollen parole<br>  & have drunk a few dews, //<br>Have smelt the grass—then, not even <br>  disgust could have woken me up<br>Like a wooden-legged pirate, <br>  pages held me within their grip.//<br>Under the wings of bird squadrons & the prairie night<br> I have been touched by the stars, <br>Danced with the whine of the wind, the sound of the surf, <br>  Here- I bear the scars.//</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A conclusion not yet reached, between the<br> unrelinquished affair & unread pages<br>Oh! How could you place this scented <br>caress on destiny’s cheek-an anomaly in a world so decrepit, <br>Still warm with the heat of its emptied treasures, <br>   early morning hiatus.//</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shriveling to cover my bare nakedness, <br>  stripped of my former glory & feat, <br>Your frailty deceptive, lasting<br> Longer than the memory I bequeath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flung across a torrid courtship, dragged &bumped <br>Yet you stand, contorted, disfigured but so firm &tough <br>Than contest, even the wildest alley cat, <br> would have surrendered a freshly caught rat.//</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here you are -Crushed, Crumpled, Dried, Wilted<br>Ready to spring back to life with your old nerve and dread! <br>Here I am, maligned, crushed, crumpled, <br>, God! Must shake myself off this reverie I led! <br> Just leave me Confirmed or Dead! ! <br>x-x-x<br> Notes: *Desideratum=object of desire<br> *Billet -doux=a love letter</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> @ Seema.Joglekar.13 March-2009<br>#On Discovering a Wilted Rose in a Library Book.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Seema+joglekar">Seema joglekar</a><div class=q>
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Billet-doux *forgotten, why resurrect me in a book raving wolf &false prophet, 
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