Cavafy Poems | Examples


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The Impermanence of Memory

Late: The square?holds its panting between
?the last bus and the first argument.

Nowhere / ‘online’ - @someone is ‘winning’..?
A face, a flag, emptiness trending; always.

We desired a just world -?rights, dignity, ‘progress’; doors?that open to merit.

Enlightenment still flashes warning
from the distant rocks - through darkling fog.?
The doors? Gone.

?it will not be alright.?
it is cold.

?the square waits: quiet, tense.?
you are here,?
so am I.

Illuminate Nature

C-larity
O-f
N-ewness
S-eems
T-o
A-bate
N-ight
T-ill
I-lluminate
N-ature
E-merges

P-erfectly

C-anceling 
A-nnoying
V-iew
A-way
F-rom
Y-ou

Topic: Poet (Constantine P. Cavafy) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

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