<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=555575" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Heart Attack (a Sestina)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What angelic chorals sing? <br>These messengers of heaven<br>Whose words are none of earth<br>Rising like mists amid the mountains<br>Rolling down to pastoral valleys<br>Stirring my fragile heart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My sullen, throbbing heart<br>Mumbling, for it can't quite sing<br>Its beat more full of valleys<br>Than peaks toward heaven<br>I miss those tracings in the shape of mountains<br>Which anchor me to this earth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet, sweet earth<br>How you fill my heart! <br>Your noble, snowy mountains<br>Rising proudly to sing<br>At the feet of heaven<br>I long to see your valleys</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To lay again in flowered valleys<br>Smelling the rich, black earth<br>Of my own personal heaven<br>Heal you traitorous heart! <br>I long to shout, to sing<br>Echoing from the mountains</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are my mountains? <br>My rolling valleys? <br>The monitor, its dirge to sing<br>Strengthening my tether to earth<br>Even as my woefully tired heart<br>Slips to heaven</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To forestall heaven<br>I labor to move mountains<br>As a constellation of disks record my heart<br>Etching flat valleys<br>Confirming i am still of this earth<br>With only a beep to mournfully sing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each lull-to heaven, then up from the valleys<br>Drawn back to mountains and earth<br>As I wait for my heart to once again sing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Christensen">John Christensen</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=555575" data-title="Heart Attack (a Sestina) de John Christensen" data-description="What angelic chorals sing? These messengers of heaven Whose words are none of earth Rising like mists amid the mountains Rolling down to pastoral valleys Stirring my fragile heart My sullen, throbbing heart Mumbling, for it can't quite sing Its ..."></div> </div> </div>

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