POETRY by

ILONA BASTOS

POEMS

RUNNING AWAY VERSES

Ilona Bastos

Doorway of Dreams by Deborah Richardson

 http://www.deborahrichardson.com/

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How fast they fly away from me

Those poetic words

Murmured in the night

(continuous whispers

among restless dreams).

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I say and repeat those lines,

Afraid to lose them.

Their rhymes I retain,

Details I remember,

As a prayer not to be forgotten.

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Morning comes and I’m alone.

What of that chant has remained?

Vague feelings of an abandoned litany

Lost in the darkness,

Scattered in the wind…

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Nothing is left! All is gone

Except for this sad trace

Of what I thought had found

But ran away from my lips

With the breath of the dawn.

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Lisbon, 4th of July of 2005

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