The Arc Of Smile Poem by ONElia AVElar

The Arc Of Smile

Rating: 3.5


A face
emerged again from space...
Time,
a distorting soulless mirror
changes brutally the shapes...
But yet the smile,
that arc of lips,
the curves,
the flaps,
becoming deeper
like palm lines
where an identity
was saved;
unaltered ego of a kid
a childish corn -
the arc of smile
for life archived.

Sofia, 02. July 2008

COMMENTS OF THE POEM

'Cui non risere parentes'...The ones who hadn't love by their parents. This way Virgil wrote about some unlucky people. However the Latin word 'risere' means, more or less, to smile. People smile at those who they love. This starts at childhood and continues for a long time. In the middle there are the influences of the intimate conflicts, as well as the possibility of finding our lost loves again. Poetry has a special task in it. Onelia showed well this possibility. I was forgetting...Onelia made me terribly happy!

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Flora Gillingham 02 July 2008

A smile: timeless and yet shaped also by time's lessons. Lovely poem, One. Fx

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Donall Dempsey 02 July 2008

This makes me smile with pleasure...I love the thoughts that you think and how the word is made flesh. Beautiful! love Donall Donall

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Rema Prasanna 03 July 2008

I liked this smile, a radiant gleam from the mirror of life it reflects beyond time and space, , endearing a skill I can find as usual from you Onelia..10+. Rema..

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Original Unknown Girl 03 July 2008

I read somewhere that smiles are contagious and it only takes one to get another one and so forth. Often a smile has the ability to bring us down, a real weapon of mass seduction! I love this poem Onelia for what it represents. HG: -) xx

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Naseer Ahmed Nasir 28 April 2009

A deliberately mysterious poem and seeming to have a hidden meaning in its essence. The Arc of Smile indeed remains the same through ages and spreads the happiness in its divine pattern...... Best Wishes Naseer

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Sonya Florentino 11 January 2009

It's true, a face may change, gets older, but a smile stays mysteriously the same. :)

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Ashraful Musaddeq 04 September 2008

Mystery and image are beautiful, very nice. So......10.

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Kesav Easwaran 20 August 2008

marvelous imagery there on time...this arc of smile born of lips reflects on cheeks eyes...well, on the entire face...a reflection of the mind behind...good 'smiley' poem 10

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Sarwar Chowdhury 15 August 2008

...well expressed.........10

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