ON THE PAINTING - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

0 posted 2011-03-12 02:56 AM

full title: ON THE PAINTING OF A MAN
BALANCING A HAT ON THE TIP OF A CIGAR

                    --from Cafe Le Quartier Libre

i can tell from the way he holds his body that
he's from Paris
as a child he spent his summers playing hide & seek
around the Eiffel Tower
he lost his virginity to a generous German tart
when he was eleven...a woman into Tarot and
palm reading

He smoked his first cigar with her
   i can tell, i know
and it can be said that she was his one and only
true love

O people reading these lines
   if only you could see him
Rodin would have loved him and would have devoted
decades on busts of him

O, if only you could see the way
he balances that hat on his cigar
   still under her spell
--------------------------
---------------------
..from 1978..Copyright 1981/2011 Spiros Zafiris
..from Midnight Magic (1981) ISBN:0-9690643-2-2
-------------------------------------

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2011-03-12 09:48 AM

Absolutely delightful, dear Spiros. So intense. You created a very vivid atmosphere.

Love,
Margherita

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-03-12 10:31 AM

Love the intrigue with the tart and the unquenchable love of the eleven-year-old, plus that darn hat trick. What's not to like heah.

~ After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles." ~

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

3 posted 2011-03-12 01:06 PM

..Margherita and Jerry, my friends, thanks
for the kind words; pleases me much you like this old poem of mine..>>spiros

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2011-03-12 07:28 PM

Spiros, my dear friend....

Might I send this to my daughter,
who claims to be the
"one and only" in the lives of
not only her love, but her
children, and all that she loves?

Please, please say I may!

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

5 posted 2011-03-12 08:19 PM

..hi Sunshine..thanks for reading/commenting
--if you wish to show this poem to your daughter, the poem will have been read, at least, once more; it would be my pleasure
..>>spiros
--------
------------

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.