I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

i won’t forget the times when i made roundish letters 
in blue-black ink 
as if i were crushing blackberry beads 
perfumed and wild 
and in the eyes of that man by chance 
it was always the same toulouse-lautrec painting 
with my watery blue dress 
like a cloud in an armchair the color of rose petals 
frozen rotted in november 
with his checkered hat thrown 
accidentally over my raincoat 
i wondered too much 
why he squeezed the whole sun between his teeth 
while laughing 
i continued to write about the dreams 
like white dead pigeons 
my lord 
with the heart shielded between wings
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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February 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM
AWESOME POEM
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January 12, 2016 at 2:19 PM
Hello Cristina Enjoyed reading your poem, Forever ---------------Love SKAT
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