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by: Will-Dockery - Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:58 UTC

> Elko Tchernev wrote:
> Inside my thoughts I anchored - like a ship
> whose punishment is rest,
> and I was praying to my wall and to my plaster -
> may time pass by, and leave me without change.
>
> And then I pushed the goblet off the table,
> the prayer disconnected with a crash;
> the pieces on the hardwood punished me
> by sending sun reflections to the ceiling.
>
> And this is how I saw myself an ant
> attempting to kill time
> and using a pine needle for a sword.
>
>
>
> Written: Some day in 1983
> Translated from Bulgarian: June - July, 2003
>
>
>
> My only worry now remains the usage of "goblet" - I don't
remember
> having ever seen this word used (besides the Harry Potter book, of

> course). Does it sound archaic? If it does, I'll have to conjure
some
> other kind of drinking vessel instead.

Another good obscure poem from the archives.

This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657798966#657798966

Life is the urge to ecstasy.

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