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the red tulips...

there is a vastness here

 

where a small breeze,

 

the size of a decaying sorrow

 

wakes the cold again

 

which may be all that’s left of me.

 

where a diamond pale haze of stars goes on eternal

 

like sound that has found a final silent shape

 

on a black sky where it means everything

 

It cannot speak off.

 

it’s empty out here, and cold.

 

cold enough to reconcile

 

the frozen cries, the kidnapped voices

 

and the silences that move

 

with certain cadaveric contractions

 

along the frozen emptiness

 

and In the morning when I look out

 

the previous evening remains

 

in its blank, cold, unforgiveness

 

even though I sang for them in

 

the eternal extensiveness of

 

the freezing cold, the stones

 

still cry with mouths opened wide

 

while the small icy wind and unsympathetic

 

moon subdue the apricot flowers,

 

Now the piercing cold day Is no longer enough

 

For all comprehension escapes me

 

suddenly jumps with fury hurling terrible hostilities to the sky,

 

as wandering ice spirits without homeland

 

begin to groan with a vast and vacant voice.

 

And frozen hearses, with muffled drums

 

and tragic music, slowly pass in my being

 

conquered, weeping, freezing

 

this atrocious iced and despotic place

 

plants its black flag in my soul

 

Now I do confess through boreal breath

 

I don’t think I will ever see the

 

Red Tulips again

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edgar-whitman-wilde
Irish
Published
Aug 25, 2019
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