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Feb 03, 2010
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Quixote
before the unopposed light
I rose evenly to the patient soft hour
to the taste of your eyes
in geometric circles
within windmills turning
they fought in sleep
in an opposed reasoning
of lesser dreams
I subtracted a feeble dawn
from Quixote's journeying soul
unpossessed as yet
in opening
I watched through windows
this enclosed darkness yielding
forgotten nights
deeper shadows on the streets below
where rain hides all traces
of how the door closes
and hero's fall
beneath folding hellos,
and past neat good-byes
that your fingers deny
into waking
I rose evenly to the patient soft hour
to the taste of your eyes
in geometric circles
within windmills turning
they fought in sleep
in an opposed reasoning
of lesser dreams
I subtracted a feeble dawn
from Quixote's journeying soul
unpossessed as yet
in opening
I watched through windows
this enclosed darkness yielding
forgotten nights
deeper shadows on the streets below
where rain hides all traces
of how the door closes
and hero's fall
beneath folding hellos,
and past neat good-byes
that your fingers deny
into waking
— Orphani, Feb 03, 2010
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Critiques
Orphani
16 years 4 months ago
In the dawning light of love
Kailashana
16 years 4 months ago
Most of the time, it’s not
Orphani
16 years 4 months ago
Passion plucks the rose and
Seren
16 years 4 months ago
Dear Barry
Orphani
16 years 4 months ago
Thanks again Jayne for the
ziggy
16 years 4 months ago
hi
Orphani
16 years 4 months ago
Time constraints make it a
Nordic cloud
16 years 4 months ago
rather a beside-river-ambulating flow