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Haiku n.3
Ovid, A. Achmatova

 

by Guido Monte

 

Multilingual Poetry

 

Haiku

 

 

Pic: "Terza" - © 2009 Guido Monte - Size: 10k
Terza
© 2009 Guido Monte

 

 

(Swans - July 27, 2009)  

precipitata iacebat
immemor ambigum
vates obscura suarum
the obscure prophetess, after her fall
lied without memory of her shifty answers:

"only my heart can never forget
who offered his own life for one only glance"

 

 

The author thanks Viviana Fiorentino

Picture: Terza, by Guido Monte (2009).

 

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Swans -- ISSN: 1554-4915
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Published July 27, 2009



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