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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 »
The Silence That She Loves
Upon the rippling desert sands
How silently she stands,
How solemn, how lonely, how serene -
As she has ever been.
Daughter of the Sun’s distant youth,
In beauty and in truth
What peer has she among the fair –
But then, what does she care?
At evening, as the Sun declines,
In warm and supple lines
Of pale vermillion hue;
A goddess is born anew,
With all the subtleties of shade
And countless colours made,
The light will always caress her,
Seeking to possess her.
And shadow with light will compete;
The two will make her complete,...
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