Short Edifices Poems

Venice,her beauty to behold
Colourful edifices from days of old
Charming waterways,traffic free
Bithplace of revered Vivaldi-
A pastel painted memory....

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re-post inspired by Nocola contest

Venice,her beauty to behold
Colourful edifices from days of old
Charming waterways,traffic free
Bithplace of revered Vivaldi-
A pastel painted memory....

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Between the darkest heaven,
And the blackest earth,
On edifices, now unidentified;
Glittering tinsel had settled undisturbed,
And with your mind join each to find,
The largest heart you'll ever ken...

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Tales of white and green 
With black tinge in between
Edifices in quadrangle 
Surrounding a green garden

And her name was Divine,
She was my cradle for many years
She was gorgeous, fair and fine
Home of bitter-sweet memories

Oh! Divine, so beautiful 
Your beauty invigorated my soul 
It is hurtful to say goodbye 
But I must leave you after all 


September 6, 2022...

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You may get to read at the
             inauguration
      But the chance 
            of that is 
       miniscule
           Perhaps you 
    dream of great loves 
     Perhaps you 
       dream 
         of utopia 
Take advice from those 
    who are 
reading you 
   You will learn that 
          your words 
can build edifices
   of hope 
inside the minds 
   of untold thousands...

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Nightfall in the city 
Auto lights form patterns 
on
the 
highway 
Someone is searching for love 
Searching amidst the towering edifices 
Eros will have its say in the metropolis
tired eyes will light up 
when he finds the one 
he is looking for 
For out there in the asphalt homeland.
out there in the darkness
is what he has been looking for 
and he will be  be  greeted with 
kisses like hot fire!...

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In a millions ways, oh life,

You have emphatically declared to me

That 

A mortal being I am 

But

I, stubbornly, defied your declaration 
 
Thus 

Many highways of hope I have built 
 
And 

Many edifices of dreams have I put up
 
During 

My passing through your planes of

Existence, as if I were immortal, 

Although my heart

Its

Mortality, had from the start, 

Embraced!
   



© Demetrios Trifiatis
    23 December 2015...

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In millions of ways, oh life,

You have, emphatically, declared to me

That

A mortal being I was

But

I, stubbornly, defied your declaration
 
Thus

Many highways of hope did I build
 
And

Many edifices of dreams have I erected
 
During

My passing through your planes of existence

As if I were immortal,

Although

My heart, its mortal nature, knew very well

From the beginning!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
   16 September 2021...

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So many roses I saw today
On the same bed they all lay. 
With roses I will dream tonight,
Pink, red, yellow and white… 
 
If a single rose I free and smell
The garden will frenzy and yell,
I aspire to be like a bumblebee:
Invisible wings to nestle and flee. 
 
The breeze carried a whiff adrift
Dancing within the edifices rift 
On my chest I pinned four medals
Pink, red, yellow and white petals:
 
A single rose can guild me to Eden 
Or linger on Nature’s bosom hidden...

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The Markets Are Down.


Banish the hubris,
Toss away the choice words
Spoken by rotten, broken tongues.
Silence the chorus of appalled shock.

Shred the sermons,
Burn down the gory edifices:
The churches, mosques, temples
And the muted Gods they mock.

Drain the sewage.
Flush away the insidious odour
Seeping up from malls, homes, carnivals.
Put it in a closet and weld the key in the lock.

Shut it all off.
Turn out the lights.
Pull the damned plug.
But hold on to that blue-chip stock....

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