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Peter Karargiris Poems
In a chamber suffused with emotion
By the light of innumerable dawns,
In a house betwixt forests and ocean,
Where the briar rose bristles with thorns;... more »
Fair Rose of all seasons;
Long enamored of you,... more »
Fiendish winds and unrelenting rains
Assail my oaken door
With icy hands and iron chains,
They chill me to my core... more »
White in the light of morning,
Crimson in the haze of noon,
Black as a storm at evening,
Like the waxing and waning moon.... more »
Upon the rippling desert sands
How silently she stands,
How solemn, how lonely, how serene -
As she has ever been.... more »
We met on the dusty crossroads,
Of a nameless, silent town,
A place by fate forsaken
When the full moon wore a frown.... more »
One of my favourite places here in my home town of Adelaide is the South Australian Museum and one of the museum’s most interesting rooms is the Ancient Egypt gallery, a room that I have visited ...... more »
Her Portrait
In a chamber suffused with emotion
By the light of innumerable dawns,
In a house betwixt forests and ocean,
Where the briar rose bristles with thorns;
There hangs her portrait in splendour,
In mystic silence, forsaken, unknown,
In lines both violent and tender
And colours of thunderous tone.
Her eyes bespeak wisdom and knowing,
Her face; enigmatic and ever serene
With tresses luxuriant, flowing
To realms of delight yet unseen.
She is lissome of line, at times seeming
To move with the heart of the storm.
In turn, she seems tranquilly dreaming; ...
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