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- From: gorokho1@husc10.harvard.edu (Zhenya Gorokhovsky)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: STORM
- Message-ID: <GOROKHO1.92Dec25042622@husc10.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 12:26:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc10.GOROKHO1.92Dec25042622
- Organization: Physicists for Poetry
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- Here's another poem. Whoever cares, please comment.
- Happy holidays to all.
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- STORM
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- At whose oblique request,
- conclusive as it nears,
- avenging whose suppressed
- tart mutinies of tears,
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- unstifling whose lament,
- assaulting whose terrain?
- A monstrous laundromat,
- abetted by the brain.
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- On the soaked city plan
- some districts still persist,
- so pert and soi-disant,
- so distant through the mist.
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- The grey dominion forms
- an atmospheric gap;
- vast chunks of Harvard dorms
- are swallowed from the map
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- as lightnings from above
- perform the first sortie
- of self-inflicted love
- with vibrant cruelty.
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- A welcome cleansing mess
- blasts from the baffled vault:
- surely a careless
- ill-shaven angel's fault.
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- Teenagerly, revealed
- through shifting sheets of spray,
- resplendent to a field
- of hesitant dismay,
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- he spells and celebrates
- a silver-melting glow.
- Through him reverberates
- the perfect vertigo.
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- A chain of sparks ignites
- from an initial flame.
- Quintillions of lights.
- Abandonment of shame.
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- zhenya
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