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The tongue slips
over the grayish-blue
edge
of a Catalonian knife.
Salt.
Tambours bang.
Me or him.
The dark dance starts.
A step
… a jump.
The night –
an award for death.
A red dress –
survival.
Curse eternal –
Carmen.
Corrida – ever.
The knife stabs in the back
and the crowd cries 
'More!'.
Breath, breath – the edge
squeals…

*‘Ultimo! (Spanish)...

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Categories: tambours, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member La Paix Et Le Desert - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Peace and the Desert By T Wignesan
La Paix et le Désert – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Peace and the Desert » by T. Wignesan

Pendant que la braise du campement de feu scintille
J’entendis l’appel
du courlis annonçant la naissance
ou la mort de quelques uns
le vent du désert calmait durant la nuit
et dans...

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Categories: tambours, bereavement, depression, grief, history,
Form: Free verse
Persephone's Finger
Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth


It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air, 
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance 
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the heavens for what lies below,
Marking its inky darkness
While the tinny tambours played 
Among the pansies.

The veiled earth held the...

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Categories: tambours, angst, character, day, death,
Form: Free verse

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