Over a delicate arch--
an eyebrow of stone--
on the unruffled forehead
of a wall
in joyful and open windows
where there are faces instead of geraniums
where rigorous rectangles
border a dreaming perspective
where a stream awakened by an ornament
flows on a quiet field of surfaces
movement meets stillness a line meets a shout
trembling uncertainty simple clarity
you are there
architecture
art of fantasy and stone
there you reside beauty
over an arch
light as a sigh
on a wall
pale from altitude
and a window
tearful with a pane of glass
a fugitive from apparent forms
I proclaim your motionless dance
Architecture
Zbigniew Herbert
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Poem topics: beauty, dance, light, fantasy, field, simple, movement, open, joyful, quiet, window, delicate, glass, stream, wall, stone, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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