<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=562698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love of Monuments</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">for some reason<br>(somewhy) <br>I like monuments<br>hilltop ones<br>with hundreds of stone steps leading up to them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">out of breadth<br>I reach the top</div><div style="margin:10px 0">usually<br>in a grass patch<br>below the sculpted form<br>abstract or realist<br>i spit out phlegm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i read the inscription<br>words, moments, <br>dates, unveilings<br>buried in the past <br>a past of creaking wood & iron <br>references often obscure (to me) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the exclamation mark<br>of a cobwebbed narrative</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then I turn<br>to face away<br>to gaze sweepingly <br>at town, at gown<br>or<br>folds and pleats <br>of mountain ranges</div><div style="margin:10px 0">more geography soul<br>than history man<br>my eyebrowed eyes<br>fly to space<br>to line </div><div style="margin:10px 0">monumental delight; <br>i love <br>breathless moments<br>dry lips<br>the cool wind <br>on the head <br>and neck of the long stone stairs</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Meintjies">Frank Meintjies</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=562698" data-title="Love of Monuments de Frank Meintjies" data-description="for some reason (somewhy) I like monuments hilltop ones with hundreds of stone steps leading up to them out of breadth I reach the top usually in a grass patch below the sculpted form abstract or realist i spit out phlegm i read the inscriptio..."></div> </div> </div>

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