peterpaulino

Queen of Illusion

June 20, 2005: Sometimes you can’t believe your eyes.
This week is one of those times. –The Manila Tidings

Tonight, yours is the sky
for your stage
to perform Magick
wearing the city’s dust and smoke
for a robe where you slide
not white doves
but swollen salmons in and out
tricking my eyes
hanging low
dancing to the tune
of summertime wildfires

Where is your caravansary?
I will look for you
after the show—
Where are your friends, the gypsies
in their carnivalesque wardrobes
and sad, knowing eyes?
Where will you be
when clouds and mountains
conceal a backstage
that terrestrial audiences
dare not go?

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Reality and love are always contradictory for me! ~Before Sunset

ms. vodka

Wow, this is very pretty Peterpaulino. The images are beautiful.

Nice to see you over here on the writing forums...

vodka

Penelope

once again - what you do so well - the soft edge - the melancholy - whispers of aching

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Psycho6058

Nicely written. Sounds like it was written in a differant century.

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peterpaulino

Vodka, Pen, Psycho! Yeah guys thanks! I would love to feel this writing of mine as a melancholic love poem, I am glad that's how this one turned out to be for you Pen, when really my inspiration for this was the Summer Moon Illusion that happened here in Manila a few days ago. We no longer see it the past two nights because it had been raining.

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huni

Peter this is just lovely as all your work is. We had our own moon moment this week. Some fires, and a low moon farthest to the south it ever is in winter, just made us stop in awe. lovely to see you here, warmest regards huni.

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peterpaulino

Hi, dear sweet. How are you? Hey, I am sorry it is only now that I can respond to your PM. Here's my email address: peter1975march@yahoo.com. I'll PM you to answer your question.

Thanks for reading this poem. Aren't the moon and sun good romantic topics?

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Reality and love are always contradictory for me! ~Before Sunset