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Kipling |
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Cari Member Posts 411 Englnand |
The pen pauses Pervasive memories Intrude India calls to favoured ears Voices in an Edwardian summer Come, come home ~ Cloud shadows Wander the foothills Hawk Eagles Circle the late afternoon round a ruby sun Resting cool on the snow peaks. ~ Market smells Bael fruit, pomegranate Cinnamon and urine Cries of the barrow pushers Waltzing Cobras’ Dance for your pleasure ~ Self mutilated For the price of life The legless beggar Offers the proffered bowl For coin or spit To your fancy ~ Simla, quietened by moonlight Orchestra strings fade as Victorian maidens, silk and organza Escape to the gardens Searching for a lover Among the camellias, under the stars ~ Retrospective morals Trample your values Under heels of lesser men But listen Still the dawn comes up like thunder out of China ‘cros the Bay! |
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DaysofView Member
since 2014-04-01
Posts 433Just A Slice Of The Pie |
There is so much sadness and heartbreak in places like India and Africa its hard to read of it in any other way. Good poem though Cari. Your last name wouldn't be Nation would it? j/k It was just a thought which made them run. It was just an act that killed them. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
A lot of street sounds and smells in this downright cool write, Cari. You gave the street harmony and texture. I so enjoyed my passing through the streets as I read your descriptive words and vibrant lines, and I am better for it. Congratulations. Clap!Clap! Take a bow!!! ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
"Still the dawn comes up like thunder out of China ‘cros the Bay!" Perhaps it was not the sun coming up, that was seen, but the glow of fire from the British Navy burning Beijing? As always you have caught my attention, poem title, and poem.. "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." |
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