There is a shattered palm
on this fierce shore,
its plumes the rusting helm-
et of a dead warrior.
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everything else is vanity, but this tenderness. a very fine poem. tony
Numb Antony, in the torpor stretching her inert near him like a sleeping cat, knows his heart is the real desert. Nicely said
The real desert! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
All very nice, very nice But he really should have thought twice
sputtering at flies, slapping their foreheads with the laurel's imprint, drunkards, comedians................
across love-tousled sheets, the triremes fading. Ar the carved door of her temple a fly wrings its message. a great poem. tony