<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521708" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This Rising</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to be the thundercloud<br>pounding fury in electric flashes, <br>but impatiently the earth pulled me down, <br>and trapped me, like silent, winter tule fog, <br>pausing over dark, delta waters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until I rose over the darkening valley<br>and observed the crescent moon<br>ascending over seaward hills, <br>effervescent disc <br>dissolving into death, <br>while radiant, scimitar edge, <br>rent the black night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the pure air at last, <br>just beneath the black vacuum of my limit, <br>I discern the elevated host, <br>this consecrated, bloody body, <br>in the agony of redemption, <br>in the glory of this perfect moment, <br>this nexus of heaven and earth, <br>this rising.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</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=521708" data-title="This Rising de Steven Federle" data-description="I wanted to be the thundercloud pounding fury in electric flashes, but impatiently the earth pulled me down, and trapped me, like silent, winter tule fog, pausing over dark, delta waters until I rose over the darkening valley and observed the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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