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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Way Ships</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flings and wings and rings rejected<br>Cupid's arrows fly deflected<br>'It clearly is too late' she signed, 'to love, adore or pay me mind'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Penciled lines drew cruel conclusions<br>mocking mirror's cracked illusions<br>Sometimes, in time, I hang awhile, reflected in her parting smile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drifting wan, below unheeding<br>worried, wounded suns a' bleeding<br>Struck dumb by night, no way to say 'Let's sound the stars another way'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shaking sands frame distant smokestacks<br>shanty towns, forsaken oak shacks<br>Pursuing dusk, collapsed and dyed, the docile dolphin deftly stride<br>beyond behind the ebbing tide, towards One-Way Ships of sunken pride</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gypsy dreamer in denial<br>Sleep and slumber standing trial<br>I never really ever slept inside the cryptic walls she kept</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Martian moons provoke the ocean<br>Strange enchantments stir the potion<br>The mutant molten purple skies ignite subconscious fireflies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Voiceless echoes feigning laughter<br>Crushing quiet screaming after<br>Vague vagaries pretend to sleep, my conscience crumbles in a heap</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Startled stars at dawn are slacking<br>Still her tempest sail is tacking<br>In fractured dreams sere silhouettes blow foghorns, trumpets, clarinets<br>Discarded glowing cigarettes tinge One-Way Ships with pale regrets</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Cold cathedral clocks upended<br>Frozen second hands suspended<br>Beneath the gauze of time I try to while away somewhere nearby</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ticking, tocking time's a' tolling<br>Cruel eternity's cajoling<br>The future, tattered, calls bereft, with nothing but her shadows left</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brigantines skim gated grottos<br>Chasing clowns and desperados<br>While jugglers juggle circus bricks, I'm trapped by time's uncanny tricks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Candied candles flicker faintly<br>Braided tresses quiver quaintly<br>Demystified, untamed in time, her face is traced in puppet mime<br>Amorphous tongues of jangled rhyme hail One-Way Ships that glide sublime</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Zigzag lightnings flash unkindly<br>Stoned, alone, I huddle blindly<br>and drain another dram and say 'she's far too far too far away'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twisted waterwheels a' thirsting<br>Flaming flower buds a' bursting<br>Adrift, I stagger far below their unchained magic rainbow glow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">White crowned wave crests break unbounded<br>Shackled sea shore's sands lie pounded<br>Unleashed, beyond the bridled world, her silver sails, cut loose, unfurled</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captive bluebirds nest in baskets<br>Morning glories cover caskets<br>Wee ballerinas swirl and spin while giant jokers smirk and grin<br>and, wasted, I withdraw within carved One-Way Ships in flasks of gin</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Hungary hounds harangue the highlands<br>howl at skies and desert islands<br>Below, unfettered carbon crows conceal the parting path she chose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lighthouse lamps and lanterns lolling<br>Mute abandoned fleets are calling<br>The shallow shadowed portholes vaunt dim traces of the past that haunt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Curved magnetic curtained faces<br>swap contorted brief embraces<br>Her fairy-tale like tattoo touch was serpentine but soft as such</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coffee cups and spoons corroding<br>Mystic tea leaves, visions boding<br>A cabaret calls, standing bare, beneath a splintered footloose stair, <br>vain vapors drape her vacant chair in One-Way Ships beyond repair</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Splattered days are dripping dreary<br>Shattered nights are wearing weary<br>Without her footfall at my side I steal away within to hide</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fancies flame, persist to flaunt her<br>Wanton whispers hiss I want her<br>Hyenas, haggard, held at bay, still gnaw on bones of yesterday</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Graveled graveyards grey and ghastly<br>Apparitions pacing past me<br>The answers to my whys and sighs have veiled her limpid pale blue eyes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lurid figments storm the valleys<br>snatch the helms of spectral galleys<br>The coughing phantoms at the wheel, they make it all seem so unreal<br>Rebounding cracks of thunder peal, shake One-Way Ships while seagull's squeal</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yesterdays unsung, unspoken, <br>bygone paths fold draped and broken<br>The weary winds of winter cling to voiceless nightingales and sting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Desert blossoms growing colder<br>Drifting sand dunes pause, enfold her<br>A frozen kiss and blush revealed forbidden pipe dreams flung afield</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weeping willow's melting snow drops<br>drip on tips of tiny toe tops<br>Their opal fires bleed and fade while suns explode in icy jade</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jagged hours hangin' heavy<br>Footsteps pace the barren levee<br>While pros and cons and kings debate, acclaim and blame and fame equate<br>the ruin's remnants left to fate with One-Way Ships that fail to wait</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Blazing blades of love surrender<br>Memories and thoughts transcend her<br>The Persian gazer's crystal shows I've truly lost my ruby rose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Buried deep in evening's embers<br>dust forgets what flesh remembers<br>The bitter taste of farewell's haste has laid the virgin skies to waste</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ruffled ravaged ravens ranting<br>Churlish ancient churchmen chanting<br>resounding what she told me true 'There's nothing more that you can do'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trial adjourned by judge and jury<br>Freed, she flees, absolved of worry<br>Remaining runes and relics burn to feed the ashes of the urn<br>Six seers, wiser, soon discern the One-Way Ships of no return</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+O%27Leary">Terry O'Leary</a><div class=q>
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Cupid's arrows fly deflected
'It clearly is too late' she signed, 'to love, adore or pay me mind'

Penciled lines drew cruel conclusions
mocking mirror's cracked illusions
Sometimes, in time, I hang awhile, refl..."></div>
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