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Crimean War???

there is a darkness

that the silver song

of soft illusion lights

in symbolic equivalents

of images real

it is a light

brutally interrogative

magnifying with dazzling rays

the breakage

at the jagged edges of the world

and lays hostage to impersonation

that resembles fragments

of smashed oval shaped mirrors

reflecting pieces of broken

brown terracotta soldiers

and causes the eyes to hurt

with a watched inner holocaust

of disturbing coloured detonations,

implosively autonomous

given to a deceived departure

a departure from reality

given by the advocacy

of ideological rationalism

that sees three kings

with blood on their crowns

in amplified convulsions

call mustre for

disturbance, disorder, destruction

and death

as blood stains the Balkan streets

and all emotional impulse

is volatilized

and a sinister, stuporous, stagnancy

stalks the land

where sustaining minds

are subject to a brutal insensitivity

that dazzles on the edge of a spiral vertigo

it is a light

brutally interrogative

magnifying with dazzling rays

a vocabulary of incoherence

like the rancid stains of *****

that inhabit the jagged edges of the world

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Written by
edgar-whitman-wilde
Irish
Published
Apr 24, 2014
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