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THE QUIRE OF THE SHEEP

pawel markiewicz

We are calling for your soul

for a benevolent autumnal source

May the hoary times arrive

full of sunny gloom endlessly dream!

 

with a fancy

coming from tender sea

we are conjuring you dreamer

your mythical pearls

 

Come propitious birdies

from Olympus-mountlet!

 

Recite my songs

about the mellow dawn

about brave honest hoplite-like treasure!

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POETRY FROM THE STEPHERD BOY

The Spartans were today
by vultures’ tone awakened
the august chasms
still nearby the autumn heart

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light autumn wings
I am immortalizing them delicately
in the superbest vase
as well as in picture on the wall

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in a temple of a wisdom
Athena’s in the isle
the muser evokes miracles
the helots dream very finely

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the destines of perioikoi
are slumbering in an ancient grotto
unusual autumn-songs flying

they become the philosophic hoard

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the atomists find thereby
the edenic afflatus
in hawk's eyes and in wings
of the philosophic discharge

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the natural philosophers are waking
in the balmy homesickness
the autumn loves all sophists
it donates notebooks to Wise Men

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a whiff of the eschatology
the sceptics and stoics
are going strutting arm in arm

to the moony fire

 

to the purest best gleam

an apotheosis - a worship

become a sweaty salvation of heart

from Plato full of the starry impact

 

 

 

in the distant cave there is

4 an idyllic rainbow

the freed caveman

is drunken from an ambrosia

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the troglodytes adjusted
by little dew such a laurel freedom
they delight in a poem
in the shooting star that falls dawn

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in the pond of the Becoming and Faith
the meteorites down here
orderly word of being
for Aristotle more beautiful

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he is being as a rambler led
into the path of musing stars
Tyrtaeus’ lyre is musing about
the experiential eudemonia

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the morning daydream is picturesque
Be awake and becharmed when
the deduction with induction 

seem to be fraternized!

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quire – archaic: choir

Paweł Markiewicz was born 1983 in Siemiatycze in Poland. He is poet who lives in Bielsk Podlaski and writes tender poems, haiku as well as long poems. Paweł has published his poetries in many magazines. He writes in English and German.

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