There's a poisonous sweetness in frozen smiles
like venom in the dawn .
A drama plays out on the worn strings of a violin.
Mankind rolls its eyes like night birds
No more rebirth ,dream fading away ...
The loudspeaker makes silence ,
all quiproquos lost in the harvest of hours.
A bitter sap flows from the tree of possibilities.
Let me finish this letter to a former love
whose taste I can't remember !
I tear my words in the eyes
of a beautiful stranger
and she turns the corner ...
Is this life just the next train
that the cyanide of biterness watches go by ?
I would have liked to wait for you
on a foggy quay ,embracing your warmth
and inventing you, in my jolly folly
some utopia to the utmost ends of the heart !
But it's just a reverie that feel the absence
and a taste of old absinthe ...
In this venom ,I see only funny real masks
who pretend to be actors ...
Lethal verb in a gray november
where in infinite solitude
snakes slumber ...
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Author:
lorenz (Pseudonym) (
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In this poem I taste the cynicism as it pours out of the lines. There is a darkness that speaks from the shadows. A heavy poem of metaphor lovely
Cynicism is the poet's despair ...
A truly November atmosphere, and with a touch of grim irony, is what I felt.
Nothing to do with american elections !
A wonderfully engaging and alluring danger lurking in these words, one that the cynical tone is conveying clearly, along with themes of loss and memory. I love the surrealist imagery, always a grab for me and the way you slither those venomous snakes in, brilliantly done! This poem, friend, is masterful.
Thank you for your sensitive appreciation of the text .
You are welcome! Thank you for sharing!
Well done Lorenze, high marks impressing my basic beliefs, "A bitter sap flows from the tree of possibilities." is so thought provoking. Nice.
Actors' funeral mask ...
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