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The Muse is on the loose

Yannis Livadas

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The Muse is on the loose and wastes herself away
on some cretin.
A severe goer through everyday scandals.
It is well worth risking a damnation or two.
Almost anything stumbles upon its quest.

Try to imagine the absence of your voice.
La Grande Messe Des Mots
resumes next to nothing.

It is only a gradual misconceiving that alerts the beginning
and the end of the days.

The widths of the most important
poet of your neighborhood
eradicate the rest of the absolutions.

28/06/2013
Place Bernard Halpern, Paris
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Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas is a Greek poet, essayist, translator and independent scholar with specialization on modernism, postmodernism and haiku. His poems and essays have been translated in nine languages. He lives in Paris, France. You can find him at http://livadaspoetry.blogspot.fr. Learn more about Yannis at Wikipedia.

Author: Yannis Livadas Tags: poetry Category: Poetry May 29, 2014

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