- Mannequin 2 Poem by Georgios Venetopoulos

Mannequin

Dependent was, an amorous obsession 5.5
in a burning desert, fresh canteen 4
a sidewalk fantasy, his thoughts' digression,5.5
the strongest coffee's roasted bean 4
(their phantasms met beyond the lights) .5

Exquisite stood upfront, unmoving posture,
distressing emptiness of soul,
an unreachable resort, her sightly stature,
(- expending skies and ozone hole) ,
Pret a porter vitrine, on a Winter night.

Behind the glass, a still and standing shadow
abates his hopes (the sky suspends) ,
(he takes his foolish stance of a wooden scarecrow,
- that through odd sprawls the fields attends)
was she the blessing of the Gods or else? ...

His allegorical, but lonely feeling,
instilled inside, without defect,
while speechless phantoms crossed the cloud ceiling,
the downpour soaked, all warmth to reject,
(ersatz their wedlock's knolling, fast dispels) .

Her uppish, elegant of stance, adjacent,
within arm's reach, kind of abstruse,
albeit abstained, of secular indulgence,
(his head acquired a tilt obtuse) ,
invited him through her faultless, charming lies.

A brass trumpet dispersed its jazzy spieling,
he, thoughtless, leaned on some red booth,
adored her raised one hand's refined appealing,
(- that altruistic, smiling tooth!) ,
and gazing to the stars but vacant eyes! ...

G. Venetopoulos