This poem probes the nature of desire and longing, it is a poem about a love unspeakable because its body is slender and it shatters at the very word. Something unhaveable.
In the swirl of a crowd, haunting the briefness
Of my glance – you the memory of Samarian thirsts
Siren shape, your hair garlanded with poppies
Stretch of lines seeking a spell to capture in time
A private nostalgia; the sun of me who espies
A dream lily, white amidst the colorful; the sun of me
Who knows you will be gone by dawn's keeping
Remedios! We have danced on the sides of rolling dice
And though my ray liberates a second of symmetry
The larger tune riffles us to earth ends – I go also
But it isn't my departure I mourn
Poetry by richard ugbede ali
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Written on 2008-08-11 at 18:40
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Remedios and the Sun
There you are again at the corner of my eyesIn the swirl of a crowd, haunting the briefness
Of my glance – you the memory of Samarian thirsts
Siren shape, your hair garlanded with poppies
Stretch of lines seeking a spell to capture in time
A private nostalgia; the sun of me who espies
A dream lily, white amidst the colorful; the sun of me
Who knows you will be gone by dawn's keeping
Remedios! We have danced on the sides of rolling dice
And though my ray liberates a second of symmetry
The larger tune riffles us to earth ends – I go also
But it isn't my departure I mourn
Poetry by richard ugbede ali
Read 854 times
Written on 2008-08-11 at 18:40
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