<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Death of a poem...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, I have killed the poem.<br>It begged for mercy<br> yet......</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not blame me for this, but<br>blame the outside sun; <br>why does it have to be so scorching and scalding? <br>The cruelty of the summer Sun makes me angry.<br>Do not be upset with my mood-swings, <br>for it is the lunar tides that is responsible.<br>And if I appear to be whimsical, <br>and different from the rest of them, then<br>blame my zodiac sign and astrological array, not me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They all have written about you; <br>the slightly plump one, the one elderly, <br>the fair skinned one and the one with deep eyes<br>that had pulled you towards illusion.<br>They all have poured their passion<br>into rhymes and rhapsody.<br>Poems are now nothing unique, <br>nothing exceptional! It is as if<br>so many in different bodies<br>have made love to the same ideas! <br>So you see, I had to kill mine; <br>I am sorry but I did not have a choice, <br>for, I can never be just one among many.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have killed the poem, <br>tearing apart the sentences<br>till the forlorn words got splintered<br>all around in sobbing bits and pieces.<br>I have murdered the images and the metaphors<br>and every simile and alliteration, <br>till they bled and became insipid, lifeless.<br>And then my poem died.<br>Could you really blame me for this? <br>For it was not me but my love<br>that committed the gruesome crime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dr.+Baishali+Bhaumik+Mitra">Dr. Baishali Bhaumik Mitra</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=550000" data-title="Death of a poem... de Dr. Baishali Bhaumik Mitra" data-description="Yes, I have killed the poem. It begged for mercy yet...... Do not blame me for this, but blame the outside sun; why does it have to be so scorching and scalding? The cruelty of the summer Sun makes me angry. Do not be upset with my mood-swings..."></div> </div> </div>

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