Date d’anniversaire.
Angel Acosta 1958 (Cuba)
The thirteenth of may
some carnations spawn doves with moons
Farewells are bloody mirrors of feelings
The death of the sun awakens the eyes of the night
That saliva is joy of sorrows
A dog yawns over the body of destiny
Someone dies like ocean on the maps
Living in pieces covers unfinished desires
There is metamorphosis from light to providence
And maybe
between twelve and one minute at night
already about fourteen
someone concludes the stubborn novel
That orphan routine is a smokeless pipe and a chair for memories
The past drags the opportunity of the present
A verse follows the next carded hair
The uninhabited produces sores that never scab
That fourteenth of May in old world
when… past the middle of the twentieth century
bided by mandrakes of captive passions
I was born, (prematurely outlawed)
life unraveled present even in the absent.
(In hours I will be seventy years old and this poem belongs to the unpublished Zona Reservada notebook)
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Submitted by angeloacosta2010 on May 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXAXBXXXBAXXXCXXXBXXC X |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 958 |
Words | 165 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 1 |
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