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>> Arabesque <<

Arabesque: A dancer poised Unbalanced In an ornamental way,

Momentary glimpse of form In a flowing stream of many Not a one of which Could ever be sustained. They pass as passing drops of rain. Statuesque: Ornamental portraits, friezes, Raised from solid brickwork Chiseled in my mind. This is not the agile dancer dancing But an architect of sham Advancing dikes Against the flow of time. Unvented lakes distend Whose only ebb Will spring from failing levee cracks

As tears of life In arabesque And pirouette Come dancing back.

Picturesque: Pyramids, ascend Through surging swirling clouds of dust, On parched unwatered land

Which, before us,