Best Swarthiness Poems

Asking neither names, nor historical periods, Clio draws wide circles of popular masses around square lonelinesses. What's all this noise about? A rich man’s circumference is longer than a pauper’s one! Down with circumference! Fortunately, the nasturtium-clad fence is high enough. The noise is getting...

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I was too quick to trust her
Her eyes, her lips, her humility and 
swarthiness…
Conviction was all I could gave in to.
Plethora of confidence I have built 
upon her in a jiffy
Like an edifice built upon a solitary 
island amidst vast oasis

She chimed my mind, and...

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in the shadows of the depth
of woe's existence, 
i was awakened by thoughts of disregard-

never ceasing to reason without intellect 
I seek darkness, 
the gloom that greys the ivory glazed moon 
in  r e d e m p t i o n 

i fear...

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(after Théophile Gautier)

Carmen is sleek and slender, with a trace 
of gypsy swarthiness around her eyes. 
That sinister black hair engulfs her face. 
There's something hellish in those slick brown thighs. 

When women look at her, they call her plain, 
but men surrender reason. Elle...

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