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Old Houses of Charlottenburg

betroth yourselves
to old houses of Charlottenburg
let yourselves be mollycoddled
by the petrified rain king
buy yourselves a shiny armour
of a former seraphim
call yourselves bourgeois, 
dear ambassadors of art

prosy playwriters
live futile lives
full of futile effort

we are the revenants of heedlessness
the masses of plastic limpidness
and cubists that paint no more
like vortex and vertigo
we're abstract in a colour gamut
but I only like to whisper 
among the lilies of rusty minefields
replacing the city with simplicity

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Poet Destroyer A

Date: 5/31/2016 4:34:00 AM

enjoyed your write William, thank you for sharing... ~Linda~

William Greco
Date: 5/31/2016 4:46:00 AM

the pleasure is mine

Aishwarya Vr

Date: 5/30/2016 5:49:00 AM

a very good poem , I enjoyed reading this.

William Greco
Date: 5/30/2016 7:04:00 AM

thanks, and I enjoyed writing it:)

Laposche Mabaso

Date: 5/30/2016 5:17:00 AM

Last 3 lines: "But I only like to whisper among the lines of rusty minefields replacing city with simplicity"...the imagery here is perfect Well done William

William Greco
Date: 5/30/2016 7:03:00 AM

thank you, glad you liked it