A face
emerged again from space...
Time,
a distorting soulless mirror
changes brutally the shapes...
But yet the smile,
that arc of lips,
the curves,
the flaps,
becoming deeper
like palm lines
where an identity
was saved;
unaltered ego of a kid
a childish corn -
the arc of smile
for life archived.
Sofia, 02. July 2008
A smile: timeless and yet shaped also by time's lessons. Lovely poem, One. Fx
This makes me smile with pleasure...I love the thoughts that you think and how the word is made flesh. Beautiful! love Donall Donall
I liked this smile, a radiant gleam from the mirror of life it reflects beyond time and space, , endearing a skill I can find as usual from you Onelia..10+. Rema..
I read somewhere that smiles are contagious and it only takes one to get another one and so forth. Often a smile has the ability to bring us down, a real weapon of mass seduction! I love this poem Onelia for what it represents. HG: -) xx
A deliberately mysterious poem and seeming to have a hidden meaning in its essence. The Arc of Smile indeed remains the same through ages and spreads the happiness in its divine pattern...... Best Wishes Naseer
It's true, a face may change, gets older, but a smile stays mysteriously the same. :)
Mystery and image are beautiful, very nice. So......10.
marvelous imagery there on time...this arc of smile born of lips reflects on cheeks eyes...well, on the entire face...a reflection of the mind behind...good 'smiley' poem 10
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
'Cui non risere parentes'...The ones who hadn't love by their parents. This way Virgil wrote about some unlucky people. However the Latin word 'risere' means, more or less, to smile. People smile at those who they love. This starts at childhood and continues for a long time. In the middle there are the influences of the intimate conflicts, as well as the possibility of finding our lost loves again. Poetry has a special task in it. Onelia showed well this possibility. I was forgetting...Onelia made me terribly happy!