Short Colonnades Poems

Crumbling colonnades, ivy laced,
fronting fractured windows, ghost faced,
where once a family was housed.
Warped in time like a web,
forgotten picture of the dead
who here used to love, laugh, and live.

March 5, 2022...

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Mission jewel seen near ocean's close shore.
Place where white gulls fly and breaking waves roar.
Tiled roofs, colonnades all make a fine tour.
Show birds nesting
Babies resting
Priest are chanting, voices rising, they soar....

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Karlovy Vary
(Czech Republic)


The thoughts of the town

sing their songs.

Under the colonnades

light of the past 

is breaking forth.

Cobbled pavements

-clear–

blend with

the presence.

Over old roofs

lingers  musik

from Dvorak Park,

with tiny steps

a new time

is moving on....

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The temple was refined. 
High. 
With colonnades, folded 
in ivy
and in myrtle. 
With wide gardens
(for healing).
It burns.
For centuries, the shadows
sealed.

But you!
Where are you going
when there’s no tomorrow?
The temple – is always

immovable. 





Translator Bulgarian-English: Vessislava Savova
rarebird
© bogpan - all rights reserved....

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Last Rite of Passage
(for Elizabeth) 30th January 03:11am

Through towering colonnades of stars
She rises with the daybreak's fire,
As angels strum on lute and lyre
And frost sparkles like fractured glass;

And when dark clouds have filled your eyes
Pray do not yield to let them cry;
For she is where the white doves fly
Amid the glades of Paradise....

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The vice grip tightens, the juniper breeze blows
Good and evil are as one and so very close
Praise that which gives you what you will
But is it truly what you need

Finding bliss in ergonomic thoughts
Brings about the lethargy of the free
Empty and vain, a world of tears
Flows like waves of entombed fears

In the final blast a whimper will be made
The silence will tear through colonnades
It will be heard and forgotten at once
For that is the state of being
Fearful and corrupt...

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