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Moon over Marmaris


“Sleep now world”
did say the falling sun,
who first held sway upon
this saddened soul,
now silent sits in shadow.
                                                  
From underneath the twisted tiles
of aged vine,                                          
low-voiced murmurs                                                      
lend cadenza to the whispers of the night.                                      
When from that silence,
pierced but calmly
by cicada in the groves,
above the shrouded, pine-clad summits
 . . . a whitened moon arose.

At first . .
her veils of gold and silver
lit darkened skies above the bay
 . . . then bright above the Taurus mountains
Silva made her way.

Then shadows lightened,
tinged with sorrow,
from the day
and for the morrow.

For ne'er the beauty,
ne'er the sight,
compares with this
fair Turkish night.

And in rising did her suitor
lay his noble head to rest.                    
To pass the world into her bosom
. . . deep beneath her cool caress.          


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