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C.J. MARECIC Glavni Kolodvor (Zagreb Train Station) Cold gray morning bums panhandling for coins along the corridors in the lobby amongst the kiosks occasionally someone scores a few kunas runs off to pay homage to the coffee machine while the also-rans stand by in silent prayer let me be next.

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AZZA EL WAKEEL A Gypsy In A State Of Love In an ornamented gypsy's dress My tresses decorated With red roses My neck and wrists with necklaces And bracelets of gardenia The jingling of my anklet Foregoing to your meeting Announcing my arriving steps The sound of my castanets Echoing in the open space Whenever I beat my tambour At the beginning of evening After the sun departed Leaving a touch of its setting On my cheeks My shyness of meeting you And my timidity's instinct The sparkles of stars splitting the sky The moonlight slipping from concealment A gypsy in a state of love Left without an earlier appointment Sure of my love Your picture engraved like a tattoo In my fantasy since birth Longing for you haunts my insides Yearning to find you runs in my blood But after I left to meet you After waiting so long After breaking the chains And overstepping the limits I woke up from my dream To discover that my braid Wasn't yet undone I was never decorated with red roses And gardenia Never ever wore an anklet

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RE: Glavni Kolodvor (Zagreb Train Station) copyright C.J. MARECIC C.J. MARECIC recently became bi-continental, residing, exploring and writing in Croatia, while earning money in Maine, USA. His most recently published poetry appears in Wolf Moon Press Journal and has been published in Hearsay, the Vermont Law School literary journal. RE 'A Gypsy in a state of love' copyright AZZA EL WAKEEL We welcome Egytian poet AZZA EL WAKEEL to PoetryRepairs.com; she writes with an extraodinary feeling for the Rom life, or is it just a stereotype imagined... or, is the poet influenced by the painter? JH

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