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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stranger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was on Queen Street<br>Auckland, we mystically met.<br>I hurried past up hill<br>to swiftly change in hotel room.<br>I felt presence reach<br>out, as I rapidly pasted.<br>I stopped; to glance around.<br>What had arrested motion? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This unknown man would be<br>singular alone anywhere.<br>We looked searching out secrets<br>deep within each others eyes.<br>Dressed he was in shielding travel stained<br>clothes of youth's pilgrims who travel.<br>Seeking an answer to impelling souls.<br>Moths ever magnetically magically drawn on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was on Queen Street, in my beloved Auckland, <br>in Aotearoa New Zealand, we mystically met.<br>Late, I hurried past, up hill, <br>to swiftly change in hotel room.<br>For chance meeting, finding a friend, <br>just earlier arrived from home.<br>Meant night out about town, companionship, <br>catch-up conversation, at hastily arranged dinner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I felt previously unencountered presence, <br>reach out; as I rapidly pasted.<br>I stopped; to searchingly; glance around.<br>What had arrested time pressed motion? <br>Saw a solitary figure, sitting alone, <br>upon a particularly, insignificant park bench.<br>Seconds taken, seize, reclaim reality, <br>readjust, focus. Was drawn impulsively near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This apparently normal, at surface appearance, <br>unknown man; would be; singular; alone; anywhere.<br>We looked, searching out secrets, deep<br>within each others prophetic mirror eyes.<br>Parallels ran a similar, disturbing, mutable course.<br>Haunting pain was preternaturally echoed. Spirit evasively<br>painstakingly broken. Need heightens twin souled fleeting<br>communion comfort. Mind knew. Hoped for mesmeric love.<br>Dressed he was in typical shielding travel stained<br>clothes of youth's pilgrims who progressively travel.<br>Seeking an answer to scented balm impelling souls.<br>Moths ever magnetically irrevocably drawn on.<br>Into distant heartfelt healing hellebore future.<br>Excommunicating shadow. Vortex beginning. Perishing.<br>Seldom finding edification; release; unless extrajudical; <br>ecliptic; ecclesiastical time be met. And then he spoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'Tel Aviv is much as here.<br> The hills the city.<br> The people beneath culture.<br> It is different.<br> But it is. The same.<br> I was thinking that.<br> Two alien peopled cities<br> linked in swaddled spirit.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was on Queen Street.<br>While I swiftly hurried past.<br>Against incumbent delaying gradient, <br>towards my hotel. The Railton.<br>Which silently slowly purgatively reached out.<br>As artful protean angel did. To creature comfort me.<br>In isolation a glow an afterglow<br>a warmth still awakened lasts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Railton still preserves<br>the sojourn spiritual prayer.<br>For the silent stranger<br>within our welcoming gates.<br>The lantern glow still comforting<br>glow of warmth still lasts.<br>Lantern lit for homeless wanderers<br>a glow a warmth still lasts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Hotel With Heart<br>In The Heart Of The City.<br>Impotent To Perceive<br>He Who Silently Slipped Past.<br>Casting dissimilar disembodied shadow<br>across threshold of commercial hearth.<br>Encloaked encompassed in unfelt folds; <br>vibrant verse, unknown, passively passed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br>Aotearoa The Land Of The Long White Cloud.<br>preternatural [med. L. praeternätürälis (1255 Albertus Magnus.<br>Metaph.II. xi) f. L. phr. praeter nätüram] Beyond, surpassing, or differing<br>from what is natural; out of the regular course of nature, not normal or<br>natural.<br>mesmerism [F.A. Mesmer (1733-1815) , Ger. physician] The art or power of inducing an abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the will of the<br>patient is controlled; the hypnotic state so induced. mesmeric, mesmerist, <br>mesmerize.<br>hellebore [Gr. helleboros] A plant, the Christmas rose; a plant<br>supposed by the ancients to be a cure for insanity.<br>extrajudical [f. L. exträ, beyond, from outside + jüdïci-um, judgement<br>+ -al] Taking place outside the court, not legally authorized; outside the<br>ordinary course of law or justice.<br>purgation [O.F. purgacion (12th c. in Hatz.-Darn.) L. purgätiön-em, of<br>action from purgäre to purge] The cleaning away of impurities; the cleansing<br>of anything from impure or extraneous matter. Act of purging, purification; <br>act of clearing oneself by oath or ordeal.<br>protean [Proteus A Greek deity who could change his shape] Readily<br>assuming different shapes or aspects; changeable.<br>sojourn [O.F. sojourner] To stay (in, among) temporarily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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Auckland, we mystically met.
I hurried past up hill
to swiftly change in hotel room.
I felt presence reach
out, as I rapidly pasted.
I stopped; to glance around.
What had arrested motion? 

This unknown man would be
singular..."></div>
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