<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575265" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The anklets of the new bride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They danced with joy, a pair of silver anklets they were<br>Studded with tiny bright stones<br>Looking beautiful on the fair softness of the girl's legs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were a gift from her mother-in-law to be<br>The first sign of her stepping into matrimony<br>Anklets that tinkled tenderly <br>And announced to everyone the wearer's joy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The joy of a new bride, that shines through her ruddy cheeks<br>The tremulous anticipation of finding joy in a stranger<br>Who was dearer than anyone she had touched or known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was her wedding night, she waited impatiently<br>For the smiling and laughing crowd to leave<br>He entered and they made love<br>Not a touch soothed her, not a smile met her eye<br>They made love in such a fashion<br>Not a flutter crossed her heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the days that followed, <br>Laughing teasing faces filled her days<br>And nights were spent on a stange bed<br>With a stranger who cared not to be her own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The anklets called out sometimes<br>It seemed not to reach his ears<br>Then they too fell silent<br>Too betrayed to try, too tired to cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The anklets now live in a box<br>The myth dispelled long ago<br>They sometimes make little noises<br>When winds of illusion blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Priyanka+Choudhury">Priyanka Choudhury</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=575265" data-title="The anklets of the new bride de Priyanka Choudhury" data-description="They danced with joy, a pair of silver anklets they were Studded with tiny bright stones Looking beautiful on the fair softness of the girl's legs They were a gift from her mother-in-law to be The first sign of her stepping into matrimony Anklets..."></div> </div> </div>

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